AP®︎ World History: Topic 8.6 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 8.6 of AP World History – Newly Independent States.
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Topic 8.6
Question 1 Easy
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State. ... We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State."
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah, address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, August 11, 1947 Adapted from the original source for clarity and length. Wording may differ slightly from the original text.
Jinnah’s address is best understood in the context of which broader political development in South Asia?
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Topic 8.6: Newly Independent States
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 8: Learning Objective G
Explain how political changes in the period from c. 1900 to the present led to territorial, demographic, and nationalist developments.
Historical Developments: KC-6.2.III.A.i
The redrawing of political boundaries after the withdrawal of former colonial authorities led to the creation of new states.
Historical Developments: KC-6.2.III.A.ii
The redrawing of political boundaries in some cases led to conflict as well as population displacement and/or resettlements, including those related to the Partition of India and the creation of the state of Israel.
Thematic Focus: Economic SystemsECN
As societies develop, they affect and are affected by the ways that they produce, exchange, and consume goods and services.
Learning Objective: Unit 8: Learning Objective H
Explain the economic changes and continuities resulting from the process of decolonization.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.I.C
In newly independent states after World War II, governments often took on a strong role in guiding economic life to promote development.
Historical Developments: KC-6.2.III.B
The migration of former colonial subjects to imperial metropoles (the former colonizing country), usually in the major cities, maintained cultural and economic ties between the colony and the metropole even after the dissolution of empires.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Israel
- Cambodia
- Pakistan
- Gamal Abdel Nasser’s promotion of economic development in Egypt
- Indira Gandhi’s economic policies in India
- Julius Nyerere’s modernization in Tanzania
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s economic policies in Sri Lanka
- South Asians to Britain
- Algerians to France
- Filipinos to the United States
