China & India 1914-1991
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| 364845300 | May Fourth Movement | Within China, mostly students protested on May 4,1919 against the peace treaties of WWI which gave the Shandong Peninsula of north China to Japan. | 0 | |
| 364845301 | Fang-zhou | A tactic used by Mao Zedong requiring reversing policies - loosening up and tightening down. | 1 | |
| 364845302 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian nationalist politician and prime minister, 1947-1964. He led the socialist wing of the Congress Party. | 2 | |
| 364845303 | The Green Revolution | Took root in India during the late 1960's. New strains of wheat, developed in Mexico under the Rockfeller Foundation' were introduced. They increased India's productivity even faster than her population. India proved able to feed itself. | 3 | |
| 364845304 | The Commonwealth of Nations | Intergovernmental organization of 52 independent member states, they co-operated within a framework of common values and goals. Originated in early 1900s. | 4 | |
| 364845305 | The Great Leap Forward | Economic/Social campaign of the Communist Party of China, planned decisions from 1058-1961 to transform China from an Agrarian economy to a modern Communist economy. | 5 | |
| 364845306 | Chiang Kai-shek | Commander in chief of the GMD's national Revolutionary Army and he fought to unify China under his control. He was an advocate of the Neo-Confucian New Life movement in the 1930's. By fall of 1949, the communists had driven the GMD out of mainland China. | 6 | |
| 364845307 | Guomindang | The National People's Party, aka GMD. Led by Chiang Kai-shek. | 7 | |
| 364845308 | Chinese Communist Party (CCP) | Li Dazhao, chief librarian at Beijing University, and others founded the communist party in 1921. By 1934, Mao Zedong was the leader of the movement, party, and army. | 8 | |
| 364845309 | Soviet | A council, the primary unit of government in the Soviet Union at local, regional, and national levels,later adopted by other communist regimes,i.e., Mao Zedong in the border area of Hunan and Jiangzi provinces built up a soviet there in 1927 to begin the unification of China under communistic rule. | 9 | |
| 364845310 | The Long March | Mao commanded thousands of soldiers to a 370 day, 6000 mile strategic retreat by foot to escape Chinag's forces. | 10 | |
| 364845311 | Revolutionary policies | redistribution of land women's rights to hold land appropriate technology production and equal distribution of basic necessities for everyone universal literacy | 11 | |
| 364845312 | Democracy Wall | In Beijing students and others posted their thoughts on what became known as the Democracy Wall. | 12 | |
| 364845313 | The Cultural Revolution | Unhappy with what he saw, Mao began to silence resistance. Mao sought to purge the part of time-serving bureaucrats. the army and students organized themselves into the Red Guard. Teachers were denounced, professors and and intellectuals were exiled. Mao was venerated. The Quotations of Chairman Mao, called the Little Red Book. Economic chaos and the total stifling and destruction of intellectual and academic life brought China to a standstill. | 13 | |
| 364845314 | Irredentist | an individual or group that seeks to restore territory to the state that once owned it | 14 | |
| 364845315 | Tiananmen Square - June 5, 1989 | Tanks traveling down Changan Boulevard, in front of the Beijing hotel, are confronted by a brave Chinese man who pleads for an end to the killing of demonstrating students. | 15 | |
| 364845316 | Khmer Rouge Party | party led by Pol Pot in Cambodia that murdered many. Was backed by China. | 16 | |
| 364845317 | Bandung Conference | conference in 1655 that offended leadership to nations newly emerging from colonialism. | 17 | |
| 369698504 | Mohandas Gandhi | Indian educated in London to be a lawyer. Went to South Africa to work and ended up fighting against Anti-Indian discrimination there. Returned to India in1914. became the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 1920's. He maintained non-violent ideals through civil disobedience campaigns for anti-British activities. Played a crucial part in the independence negotiations. | 18 | |
| 369698505 | Satyagraha | A Hindi expression meaning, "Truth Force". Called for self-sacrificing, non-violent mass demonstrations, demanding that the persecutors recognize the immorality of their own position and redress the suffering of the oppressed. | 19 | |
| 369698506 | Hind Swarj or Indian Home Rule | Book written and published by Gandhi in 1909. It championed India's own civilization, exhorted Indians to conquer the feelings of fear and inferiority inherent in the colonial situation, and forthrightly attacked British hegemony. | 20 | |
| 369698507 | Swadeshi | "Of one's own country," a Hindi word used as a slogan in the indian boycott of foreign goods, part of the protest against Britain's partition of Bengal in 1905. | 21 | |
| 369698508 | Harijan | A Hindu term meaning children of God, applied by gandhi to the poorest classes of Indian society, including the untouchables. | 22 | |
| 369698509 | Dalit | "oppressed person," a blunt term adopted by ex-untouchables to describe their status. | 23 | |
| 369698510 | Non-cooperation campaign of 1920-1922 | Boycotted British colonial schools, law courts, administrative positions, manufactures, and imports. The Congress also created a parallel government to British rule" | 24 | |
| 369698511 | The Salt March Campaign of 1930-1932 | Gandhi mocked the government's monopoly on the manufacture and sale of salt by marching to the sea and manufacturing salt from seawater. It initiated a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience and law breaking" The world saw Britain's lack of authority and respect by the Indian peoples. | 25 | |
| 369698512 | Quit India Campaign of 1942 | Indians refused their political support to Britain's efforts in World War II unless independence was granted. | 26 | |
| 369698513 | 1947 India subcontinent gained independence. Land partitioned... | Hindu majority India Muslim majority Pakistan. Ceylon (island off southern tip) 1948 became Sri Lanka ib 1972. Kashmir divided betw. the two by 1949. West Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971 | 27 | |
| 369723982 | Indira Gandhi | Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India at Independence. She succeeded him as Prime Minister, 1967-1977 and 1980-1984. She was assassinated. | 28 | |
| 369723983 | Patrilineal | The tracing of ancestr, kinship, and inheritance through the male line. | 29 | |
| 369723984 | Patrilocal | Residence by a couple in or near the home of the male's family or group. | 30 |
