here are some of the key vocabulary from these 3 chapters in the book.
160100213 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | Promised 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 | |
160100214 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionist and military commander of peasent guerrilla movement centerized in Morelos; demanded sweeping land reform. | 1 | |
160100215 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader after WW1; created first fascist government based on aggresive forign policy and new nationalist glories. | 2 | |
160100216 | Sino-Japanese War | War faught between Japan and Quing China; resulted in Japanese victory. | 3 | |
160100217 | New Economic Policy | Initiated 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 | |
160100218 | Russo-Japanese War | War 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 | |
160100219 | Zionists | Movement 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 | |
160100220 | Mao Zedong | Communist 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 | |
160100221 | Mexican Revolution | Faught over a period of almost 10 years; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power. | 8 | |
160100222 | Archduke Ferdinand | Heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started WW1. | 9 | |
160100223 | W.E.B. Du Bois | African American political leader; had a mojor impact on emerging African nationalist leaders in the 1920's and 1930's. | 10 | |
160100224 | Long March | Communist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomindang in 1934; firmly est. Mao Zedong as head of communist party in China. | 11 | |
160100225 | Satyagraha | Literally "truth force"; strategy of protest developed by Mohandas Gandhi and his followers in India | 12 | |
160100226 | Emancipation of the Serfs | Tsar 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 | |
160100227 | Pan-African | Orginization that brought togeter intellectuals and political leaders from areas of Africa and African diaspora before and after WW1. | 14 | |
160100228 | Totalitarian State | New 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 | |
160100229 | Pancho Villa | Mexican Revolutionary and military commander in Northern Mexico during Mexican Revolution. | 16 | |
160100230 | Fascism | Political 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 | |
160100231 | Mohandas Gandhi | Led sustained all-India campaign for independence from British Empire after WW1; stressed nonviolent but aggressive mass protest. | 18 | |
160100232 | Western Front | Front est. in WW1; generally along line from Belgium to Switzerland; featured trench warfare and horrendous casualties for all sides in the conflict. | 19 | |
160100233 | Holy Alliance | Alliance among Russia, Prussia, and Austria in defense of religion and est. order; formed at Congress of Vienna by most conservative monarchies of Europe. | 20 | |
160100234 | Rowlatt Act | Placed severe restrictions on key Indian civil rights such as freedom of the press; acted to offset concessions granted under Montagu-Chelmsford reforms 1919. | 21 | |
160100235 | National Congres Party | Grew out of regional associations of Western-educated Indians; originally centered in cities of Bombay, Poona, Calcutta, and Madras. | 22 | |
160100236 | Adof Hitler | Nazi 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 |