Guided Reading 25-2
Black Africans had fought in World War I in (1)__________________ and French armies. Many Africans hoped they would be rewarded with (2) __________________ after the war. The great (3) __________________ was that colonies stripped from (4) __________________ after World War I were awarded to Great Britain and France, who then controlled most of Africa.
As more Africans became aware of the enormous gulf between Western (5) __________________ and (6) __________________, they decided to seek reform. In (7) __________________, Harry Thuku was arrested for protesting (8) __________________ taxes. By the 1930s, an increasing number of African leaders were calling for independence, not (9) __________________.
Young African leaders who had studied abroad were especially influenced by the ideas of (10) __________________ and (11) __________________. Garvey, a Jamaican who lived in Harlem in New York City, stressed the need for the unity of all Africans, a movement known as (12) __________________. LĂ©opold Senghor organized an independence movement in (13) __________________.
Mohandas Gandhi had become active in the movement for Indian (14) __________________ before World War I. the independence movement in India (15) __________________ into two paths. One identified with Gandhi and was (16) __________________. The other identified with (17) __________________ and was secular, Western, and modern.
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Japan moved toward a more (18) __________________ government. But by the 1930s, the Japanese government was dominated by the (19) __________________ and other supporters of Japanese expansionism. By the end of the 1920s, practically every colonial society in Asia had a (20) __________________ party.