The Colonies Become New Nations 1. Use a web diagram to show some of the challenges that newly independent nations have faced.

2. Support Opinions Do you think there should be a limit to the methods revolutionaries use? Explain your opinion.

3. Analyze Issues Why have so many of the new nations that emerged over the past half-century struggled economically?

4. Draw Conclusions In your view, was religion a unifying or destructive force as colonies around the world became new nations? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

5. Contrast Describe the nature of totalitarianism and the police state that existed in Russia, and how it differed from some authoritarian governments you learned about in this lesson.

6. Compare Compare the rise of nationalism in Turkey, India, and China.

7. Analyze Compare and contrast the methods used by African and Asian nations to achieve independence.

8. Infer Use a globe to make a chart that shows the distance from Moscow and Washington, DC, to Afghanistan, Ghana, the Philippines, and India. What do these distances tell you about the influences of the United States and the Soviet Union on these new nations?

9. reading, listening to, summarizing, and discussing the quotation by Anwar Sadat in Lesson 4.