WW2

Question 1

How many Indians volunteered for WW2

Answer 1

Over 2 million

Question 2

How did Britain enter India into WW2

Answer 2

Unilaterally, did not consult indians

Question 3

What did Congress do in reaction to India being in the War

Answer 3

Instructed all of its provincial ministers to resign

Question 4

What was 22 December for the Muslim League

Answer 4

Jinnah declared it Deliverance Day, in reaction to Congress resignation

Question 5

When was the August offer

Answer 5

1940

Question 6

What was the August offer?

Answer 6

promised Indian constitutional reform to be resumed AFTER the war

-Guaranteed steps towards Dominion status starting ONE year after the war

Question 7

Who formed and set up the INA

Answer 7

INA-Indian National Army, set up and led by Subhas Chandra Bose

Question 8

What did Bose do in 1941

Answer 8

Left India in order to fight its independence (met up with Hitler, Stalin to try persuade them to help the Indian independence movement).

Question 9

What did Bose do in 1943

Answer 9

made a deal with Japanese leader General Toto who was more supportive to his cause

Question 10

What was the membership of the INA

Answer 10

15,000

Question 11

Where was the INA sent to

Answer 11

sent into action against the British in Burma.

-Were decimated and many surrendered

Question 12

When was the Atlantic Charter

Answer 12

August 1941

Question 13

What did the Atlantic Charter state

Answer 13

Support for ‘sovereign rights and self-government’

Question 14

Why was Cripps sent to India

Answer 14

To discuss the implications of the declaration on Dominion status made in the August Offer

Question 15

What were Cripps’ proposals (2)

Answer 15

• Dominion status would include the right of provinces not to join the dominion
• Th Executive Council should include an Indian as defence minister

Question 16

Failure factors identified by Cripps

Answer 16

• defeatist attitude aggravated by enemy propaganda

- Hind-Muslim antagonism

Question 17

What was Cripps criticised for doing?

Answer 17

Going beyond his brief

Question 18

What proposal was jointly made and by whom

Answer 18

Indian as defence minister and was jointly made by Colonel Louis Johnson

Question 19

Congress reaction to the Cripps mission

Answer 19

Formally rejected.
-Not enough concessions and so no point inrushing to agree when they could be offered more later, due to the deteriorating war situation

Question 20

Muslim League reaction to the Cripps’ mission

Answer 20

Accepted the proposals and was confident in challenging Congress’ clain to represent all of India’s opinion

Question 21

What did the Cripps mission result in

Answer 21

Quit India Campaign and both sides saw this as the opportunity to harden their approaches further

Question 22

What did Gandhi declare in the Quit India Campaign

Answer 22

Britain was unable to defend India

-All Indians should prepare a defence strategy of peaceful non-cooperation

Question 23

-How did Britain react to the Quit India Campaign (5)

Answer 23

Congress Leaders across India were arrested in morning raids

REPRESSION- police shot on sight those breaking curfew

• Public whippings
• Hundreds killed
• 500 arrested without trial

Question 24

Result of the Quit India Campaign

Answer 24

-Britain able to suppress it, overall unsuccessful for Congress

BUT

• -Britain lost its moral authority
• US public opinion saw the British as more focused on preserving its empire, than defeating enemies of democracy