Glencoe World History 2008 Chapter 25 People and Places
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| 107613671 | Abdülhamid II | a sultan placed on the Ottoman throne and ruled like an authoritarian and suspended the constitution; he was in constant fear of assassination | |
| 107613672 | T. E. Lawrence | British adventurer popularly known as "Lawrence of Arabia" | |
| 107613673 | Atatürk | Father of Turks | |
| 107613674 | Tehran | the capital and largest city of Iran | |
| 107613675 | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Persian army officer who seized power in 1925 | |
| 107613676 | Iran | a theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia | |
| 107613677 | Ibn Sa'ūd | reform leader in the early 1920s and united Northern Arabian Peninsula. He created Saudi Arabia in 1932. | |
| 107613678 | Saudi Arabia | an absolute monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia | |
| 107613679 | Palestine | an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean | |
| 107613680 | Kenya | a republic in eastern Africa | |
| 107613681 | W.E.B. Du Bois | believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediatly;founded the NAACP | |
| 107613682 | Marcus Garvey | Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business | |
| 107613683 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | |
| 107613684 | Mohandas Gandhi | A philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change. | |
| 107613685 | Mahatma | (Hinduism) term of respect for a Brahmin wise man, means "great soul", | |
| 107613686 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule | |
| 107613687 | Manchuria | a region in northeastern China | |
| 107613688 | Shanghai | the largest city of China | |
| 107613689 | Sun Yat-sen | most prominent nationalist leader, did not share the communists enthusiasm for a dictatorship of the proletariat and the triumph of communism | |
| 107613690 | Chang Jiang | also called the Yangtze River; stretches 3,400 miles | |
| 107613691 | Chiang Kai-shek | military leader that took over Guomindang when Sun Yat-sen died | |
| 107613692 | Shanghai Massacre | Nationalists massacre Communists in China | |
| 107613693 | Nanjing | a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River | |
| 107613694 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) | |
| 107613695 | People's Liberation Army (PLA | the army of the communists and ultimately the army of China | |
| 107613696 | Argentina | a republic in southern South America | |
| 107613697 | Chile | a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast | |
| 107613698 | Brazil | the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world | |
| 107613699 | Peru | a republic in western South America | |
| 107613700 | Mexico | a Republic in southern North America | |
| 107613701 | Juan Vicente Gómez | Venezualean dictator who had a strong relationship with the US oil compaies | |
| 107613702 | Good Neighbor Policy | Franklin D. Roosevelt policy in which the U.S. pledged that the U.S. would no longer intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries. This reversed Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy. | |
| 107613703 | Hipólito Irigoyen | Argentine politician, president of Argentina from 1916-1922 and 1928-1930. The first president elected by universal male suffrage, he began his presidency as a reformer, but later became conservative. leader of the radical party | |
| 107613704 | Getúlio Vargas | dictator of Brazil that allied himself with the working poor, wages and workers' benefits, favored labor unions, and gave women the right to vote, eventually toppled by the military | |
| 107613705 | Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI_ | the most powerful political party in Mexico from the 1920s to 2000, which won every presidential election during that time | |
| 107613706 | Lázaro Cárdenas | 1930s Mexican president; responsible for land redistribution, primarily created ejidos (communal farms); also began program of primary and rural education | |
| 107613707 | PEMEX | a national oil company set up in Mexico to run the oil industry | |
| 107613708 | Diego Rivera | socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957) |
