AP®︎ World History: Topic 7.5 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 7.5 of AP World History – Unresolved Tensions After World War I.
Questions List
Topic 7.5
Question 1 Easy
Which organization became the center of anti-colonial politics in British India?
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Topic 7.5: Unresolved Tensions
Thematic Focus: GovernanceGOV
A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.
Learning Objective: Unit 7: Learning Objective E
Explain the continuities and changes in territorial holdings from 1900 to the present.
Historical Developments: KC-6.2.I.B
Between the two world wars, Western and Japanese imperial states predominantly maintained control over colonial holdings; in some cases, they gained additional territories through conquest or treaty settlement and in other cases faced anti-imperial resistance.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Transfer of former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of League of Nations mandates
- Manchukuo/Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Indian National Congress
- West African resistance (strikes/congresses) to French rule