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Ap World History Ch.27-29 Flashcards

here are some of the key vocabulary from these 3 chapters in the book.

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160100213Mexican Constitution of 1917Promised land reforms; limited forign ownership of key reasorces; guaranteed the rights of workers; placed restrictions on clerical eduacation; marked formal end of Mexican Revolution.0
160100214Emiliano ZapataMexican revolutionist and military commander of peasent guerrilla movement centerized in Morelos; demanded sweeping land reform.1
160100215Benito MussoliniItalian fascist leader after WW1; created first fascist government based on aggresive forign policy and new nationalist glories.2
160100216Sino-Japanese WarWar faught between Japan and Quing China; resulted in Japanese victory.3
160100217New Economic PolicyInitiated be Lenin in 1921; state continued to set basic economic policies, but efforts were now combined with individual initiative; policy allowed food production to recover.4
160100218Russo-Japanese WarWar between Japan and Russia over territory in Manchuria; Japan defeted Russians mainly because of its naval power; Japan annexed Korea in 1910 as a result of military dominance.5
160100219ZionistsMovement originating in eastern Europe during the 1860's and 1870's that argued that the Jews must return to a Middle Eastern holy land; eventually identified with the settlement of Palestine.6
160100220Mao ZedongCommunist leader in revolutionary China; culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958.7
160100221Mexican RevolutionFaught over a period of almost 10 years; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power.8
160100222Archduke FerdinandHeir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started WW1.9
160100223W.E.B. Du BoisAfrican American political leader; had a mojor impact on emerging African nationalist leaders in the 1920's and 1930's.10
160100224Long MarchCommunist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomindang in 1934; firmly est. Mao Zedong as head of communist party in China.11
160100225SatyagrahaLiterally "truth force"; strategy of protest developed by Mohandas Gandhi and his followers in India12
160100226Emancipation of the SerfsTsar Alexander II ended rigorous serfdom in Russia 1861; serfs obtained no political rights; required to stay in villages until able to repay aristocracy for land.13
160100227Pan-AfricanOrginization that brought togeter intellectuals and political leaders from areas of Africa and African diaspora before and after WW1.14
160100228Totalitarian StateNew kind of government in 20th century that excercised massive, direct control over virtually all the activities of its subjects; exisred in Germany, Italy, and Soviet Union.15
160100229Pancho VillaMexican Revolutionary and military commander in Northern Mexico during Mexican Revolution.16
160100230FascismPolitical philosophy tht became predominant in Italy and then Germany during 1920's and 1930's; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs.17
160100231Mohandas GandhiLed sustained all-India campaign for independence from British Empire after WW1; stressed nonviolent but aggressive mass protest.18
160100232Western FrontFront est. in WW1; generally along line from Belgium to Switzerland; featured trench warfare and horrendous casualties for all sides in the conflict.19
160100233Holy AllianceAlliance among Russia, Prussia, and Austria in defense of religion and est. order; formed at Congress of Vienna by most conservative monarchies of Europe.20
160100234Rowlatt ActPlaced severe restrictions on key Indian civil rights such as freedom of the press; acted to offset concessions granted under Montagu-Chelmsford reforms 1919.21
160100235National Congres PartyGrew out of regional associations of Western-educated Indians; originally centered in cities of Bombay, Poona, Calcutta, and Madras.22
160100236Adof HitlerNazi leader of fascist Germany from 1933 to his suicide in 1945; created a strongly centrelized state in Germany; eliminated all rivals; launched Germany on arggresive forign policy leading to WW2; responsible for genocide of European Jews.23

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