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AP World History CH. 28 Flashcards

all vocab, in order, ch 28, based stearns AP World Civilizations the global experience book.

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4035949074Archduke Franz FerdinandHeir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assasinations in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started WWI0
4035949075SarajevoAdministrative center of the Bosnian province of Austrian Empire; assasination there of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 started WWI1
4035949076Western FrontFront Established in World War I; generally along the line from Belgium to Switzerland; featured trench warfare and horrendous casualties for all sides in the conflict.2
4035949077Nicholas IITsar of Russia 1894-1917; forcefully suppressed political opposition and resisted constitutional government; deposed by revolution in 1917.3
4035949078GallipoliPeninsula south of Instanbul; site of decisive 1915 Turkish victory over Australian and New Zealand forves under British comand during World War I4
4035949079Armenian genocideAssault carried out by mainly Trukish military forces against Armenian population in Antolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East.5
4035949080Eastern FrontMost mobile of the fronts established during WOrld War I; after early succeses, military defeats led to downfall of the tsarist government in Russia.6
4035949081Adolf HitlerNazi leader of fascist Germany from 1933 to his suicide in 1945; created a strongly centralized state in Germany on aggresive foreign policy leading to World War II; responcible for genocide of European Jews.7
4035949082Georges ClemenceauFrench Prime minister in last years of World War I during Versailles Conference of 1919; pushed for heavy reperations from Germans.8
4035949083David Lloyd GeorgePrime minister of Great Britain who headed a coalition government through much of World War I and the turbulent years that followed9
4035949084self determinationRight of people in a region to determine whether to be independant or not10
4035949085League of NationsInternational diplomatic and peace organizations created in the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; one of the chief goals of President Woodrow Wislon of the United States in the peace negotiations; the United States was never a member.11
4035949086National Congress PartyGrew out of regional associations of Western Edjucated INdians; originally centered in cities of Bombay, Poona, Calcutta, and Madras; became political party in 1885; focus of nationalist movement in India; governed through most of postcolonial period.12
4035949087B.G TilakBelieved that nationalism in India should be based on appeals to Hindu religiosity; worked to promote the restoration and revival of ancient Hindu traditions; offended Muslims and other religious groups; first populist leader in Indian nationalist movement.13
4035949088Morley-Minto reformsProvided edjucated Indians with considerably expanded opportunities to elect and serve on local and all-Indian legislative councils.14
4035949089Montagu-Chelmsford reformsIncreased the powers of Indian legislators at the all-Indian level and placed much of the provincial administration of India under local ministries controlled by legislative bodies with substancial numbers of elected Indians; passed in 1919.15
4035949090Rowlatt ActPLaced severe restrictions on key Indian civil rights such as freedom of the press; acted to offset the concessions granted under Montagu-Chelmsford reforms16
4035949091Mohandas GandhiLed sustained all-India campaign for independance from British Empire after World War 1; stressed nonviolent but aggresive mass protest.17
4035949092satyagrahaLiterally, "truth force"; strategy of nonviolent protest, developed by Mohandas Gandhi and hi sfollowers in India; later deployed throughout the colonized world and in the United States.18
4035949093Lord CromerBritish proconsul in khedival Egypt from 1883 to 1907; pushed for economic reforms that reduced but failed to eliminate the debts of the khedival regime.19
4035949094effendiCLass of prosperous business and proffesional urban families in khedival Egypt; as a class generally favored Egyptian independance20
4035949095Dinshawai incidentClash between British soldiers and Egyptian villagers in 1906; arose over hunting accident along Nile River where wife of prayer leader of mosque was accidentally shot by army officers hunting pigeons; led to Egyptian protest movement.21
4035949096AtaturkAlso known as Mustafa Kemal; leader of Turkish republic formed in 1923; reformed Turkish nation using western models.22
4035949097HusseinSherif of Mecca from 1908 to 1917; used British promise of independence to convince Arabs to support Britain against the Turks in World War 1; angered by Britains failure to keep promise; died 193123
4035949098MandatesGovernments entrusted to European nations in the Middle East in the aftermath of World War 1; Britain occupied mandates in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine after 1922.24
4035949099ZionistsMembers of a movement originating in eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1870s that argued that the Jews must return to a Middle Eastern holy land; eventually identified with the settlement of Palestine25
4035949100Balfour DeclarationBritish minister Lord Balfour's promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine, issued in 1917.26
4035949101Leon PinskerEuropean Zionist who believed that Jewish assimilation into Christian Europe nations was impossible; argued for return to Middle Eastern Holy Land27
4035949102Theodor HerzlAustrian journalist and Zionist; formed world Zionist Organization in 1897; promoted Jewish migration to Palestine and formation of a Jewish state.28
4035949103Alfred DreyfusFrench Jew falsely accused of passing military secrets to the Germans; his mistreatments and exile to Devil's Island provided flash point for years of bitter debate between the left and right in France.29
4035949104World Zionist OrganizationFounded by Theodore Herzl to promote Jewish migration to and settlement in Palestine to form Zionist state30
4035949105Wafd PartyEgyptian nationalist party that emerged after an Egyptian delegation was refused a hearing at the Versailles Treaty negotiations following World War 1. Led by Sa'd Zaghlul; negotiations eventually led to limited Egyptian independence beginning in 192231
4035949106Sa'ad ZaghlulLeader of Egypt's nationalist Wafd Party; their negotiations with British led to limited Egyptian independence in 1922.32
4035949107Marcus GarveyAfrican American political leader; had a major impact on emerging African nationalist leaders in the 1920s and 1930s.33
4035949108W.E.B Du BoisAfrican American political leader; had a major impact on emerging African nationalist leaders in the 1920s and 1930s.34
4035949109Pan-AfricanOrganization that brought together intellectuals and political leaders from areas of Africa and African diaspora before and after World War 135
4035949110Negritudeliterary movement in Africa; attempted to combat racial stereotypes of African culture; celebrated beauty of black skin and African physique; associated with origins of African nationalists movements.36
4035949111Leopold Sedar Senghorone of the post world war 1 writers of the negritude literary movement that urged pride in African Values; president of Senegal from 1960 to 198037

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