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Chapter one
Text Dependent Questions
1. Explain how the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
helped lead the way to World War II.
2. How did the Great Depression impact colonial nations?
3. What is the purpose of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights?
Research Projects
1. Research one of the colonial powers of the nineteenth
and twentieth century and create a map showing which
territory or territories they controlled.
2. Imagine you are on the Special Committee for
Decolonization. Choose a Territory on the Non-Self-
Governing Territories list. Research that Territory and
make a list of specific recommendations to help it
become self-governing.
Chapter One