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Interwar Global Change: Rights, Revolution, Authoritarianism, and Mass Culture

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Summary

World War I created new opportunities and expectations for people who had long been denied political and social equality. This lesson examines women’s suffrage, minority groups’ hopes for fair treatment, and the growth of African American civil rights and cultural movements.

Women had campaigned for the vote for decades before World War I. Suffragists in Britain and the United States used public demonstrations and sometimes radical protest. Some were arrested and went on hunger strikes; prison authorities sometimes force-fed them. The wartime service of women in medical work and industry strengthened arguments that they deserved political representation.

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What was the Great Migration?
The large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to northern and Midwestern cities, accelerated by wartime and postwar opportunities.
What did the New Negro movement promote?
Racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics among African Americans.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A 1920s flourishing of African American literature, art, and music.
What role did Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) play?
It provided political continuity while dominating elections and maintaining one-party rule in practice.
What was Japan’s moga?
A Japanese version of the modern woman associated with changing styles and social behavior.

Quiz questions

  1. When did Britain grant women aged twenty-one and older equal voting rights with men?Answer: 1928
  2. What legal reform helped make Atatürk’s Turkey a secular state?Answer: A civil code replaced Islamic law as the basis of the legal system.
  3. How did the Kwantung Army use the 1931 Mukden Incident?Answer: It used a railway explosion, blamed on Chinese nationalists, as a pretext to occupy Manchuria.
  4. How did Mao Zedong adapt Marxist revolutionary theory to China?Answer: He argued that peasants, rather than industrial workers, could lead the revolution.
  5. What did Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong agree to do after Japan invaded China in 1937?Answer: They temporarily set aside their civil war to resist Japan.

Based on World History Volume 2, from 1400 by Ann Kordas, Ryan J. Lynch, Brooke Nelson, Julie Tatlock (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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