WORLD HISTORY

DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST

DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The clothes worn by Mohandas Gandhi of India and by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk of Turkey indicate the desire of these leaders to
A
conform to traditional religious beliefs
B
adapt to the cultural norms of urban life
C
protest the oppression of communist rule
D
make a political statement to their respective nations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Later he started wearing a dhoti, a long coat and a turban. Then he changed to wearing clothes made from Khadi-a khadi shirt, a khadi stole and a khadi cap (topi) but later he started wearing only a khadi wrap around.

Detailed explanation-2: -Context: The Balfour Declaration was a letter from Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary, to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader in the Zionist movement in Great Britain written on November 2, 1917.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk, was the first president of the Republic of Turkey from 1923. He inherited a Turkey in desperate need to modernize in order to survive in the fast paced 20th century. The failing Ottoman Empire was known as “the sick man of Europe, ” and Ataturk recognized Turkey’s necessity to change this image.

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