Author Question: Tibet a. had been controlled by Russia from the mid-1800s until 1953, when it was given its ... (Read 39 times)

mckennatimberlake · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Tibet

a. had been controlled by Russia from the mid-1800s until 1953, when it was given its independence.
b. was occupied by China in 1950.
c. was feared by Britain because of its militantly aggressive actions in Kashmir and the Punjab in the 1940s.
d. was the only Sunni Muslim society in the region.
e. staged an unsuccessful, Comintern-inspired revolution in 1953.

Question 2

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

a. middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs.
b. peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants.
c. the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies.
d. the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard.
e. Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II.