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6718828025W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus GarveyAfrican American leaders with major impact on rising African nationalism0
6718830685NegritudeLiterary movement among African Americans and Africans; combat unfavorable stereotypes of African culture and celebrate African achievements; influenced early African nationalist movements1
6718835985Kellogg-Briand PactMultination treaty, sponsored by American and French leaders, outlawed war(1928)2
6718840503Cubist movementHeaded by Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes3
6718845270FascismPolitical ideology predominant in Italy Benito Mussolini, (1920s) attacked democracy's weaknesses, corruption and class conflict of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs4
6718859392SyndicalismOrganization of industrial workers to control means of production and distribution5
6718861648Mexican RevolutionChallenged Porfirio Diaz(1910) initiated a revolution after losing fraudulent elections (1910-1920-civil war)6
6718874115Pancho VillaMexican revolutionary leader in northern Mexico after 19107
6718875366Emiliano ZapataMexican revolutionary commander of a guerrilla movement centered at Morelos; demanded sweeping land reform8
6718877176Mexican Constitution of 1917Promised land and educational reform, limited foreign ownership, guaranteed rights for workers, and restricted clerical education and property ownership; never fully implemented9
6718880629Lazaro CardenasMexican president (1934-1940); responsible for large land redistribution create communal farms; began primary and rural education10
6718886220CorridosPopular ballads written to celebrate heroes of the Mexican Revolution11
6718891577CristerosConservative peasant movement in Mexico (1920s) reaction against secularism12
6718898596Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI)inclusive Mexican political party developing from the 1920s; rued for the rest of the 20th century13
6718901793Sovietcouncil of workers; seized the government of St. Petersburg in 1917 to precipitate the Russian Revolution14
6718903765Aleksander KerenskyLiberal revolutionary leader during early stages of Russian Revolution of 1917; attempted development of parliamentary rule- supported continuance war against Germany15
6718907449Russian Communist PartyBolshevik wing of Russian socialists; came to power under Lenin in November 1917 revolution16
6718912241Council of People's CommissarsGovernment council composed of representatives from Russian soviets and headed by Lenin; came to power after November 191717
6718916119Red ArmyUnder leadership(Leon Trotsky); victories secured communist power after early years of turmoil following Russian Revolution18
6718921192New Economic Policy (NEP)Lenin(1921) combined state establishing basic economic policies with individual initiative; allowed food production to recover19
6718924419Supreme SovietCommunist-controlled parliament of the USSR20
6718926401CominternCommunist International - organization under dominance of USSR; designed to encourage spread of communism to rest of world21
6718931224Joseph StalinLenin's successor as leader of USSR; strong nationalist view of communism; crushed opposition to his predominance; ruled USSR until his death in 195322
6718932505CollectivizationCreation of large state-run farms replacing individual holdings; allowed mechanization of agriculture and more efficient control over peasants23
6719015961Yuan ShikaiWarlord in northern China after fall of Qing dynasty; president of China(1912) hoped to become emperor, but blocked by Japanese intervention in China(1916)24
6719024319Sun YatsenHead of Revolutionary Alliance that led 1911 revolt against Qing; president of China in 1911, but yielded to Yuan Shikai in 1912; created the Guomindang in 191925
6719029510May Fourth MovementAcceptance at Versailles of Japanese gains in China during World War I led to demonstrations and beginning movement to create a liberal democracy26
6719036018Guomindang (National Party)Founded by Sun Yatsen (1919) main support from urban businesspeople and merchants; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 192527
6719041981Chiang Kai-shekLeader of Guomindang (1925) contested the communists for control of China until defeat (1949)28
6719048800Mao ZedongCommunist leader who advocated role of peasantry in revolution; led Communists to victory and ruled China (1949-1976)29
6719056007Long MarchCommunist retreat under Guomindang pressure(1934); shifted center of communist power to Shanxi province30
6719061440Totalitarian State20th century form of government exercised direct control over all aspects of its subjects; existed in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and other Communist states31
6719064808Spanish Civil WarCivil war between republican and autocratic supporters; support by Germany and Italy, autocratic regime of Francisco Franco triumphed32
6719070122Import substitution economiesLatin American and other nations' effort to produce what had formerly been imported33
6719080452CorporatismConservative political movement emphasized organic nature of society, with state as mediator between different groups34
6719084789Tojo HidekiJapanese general dominated internal politics from mid-1930s; gave military dominance over civilian cabinets35
6719089968National Socialist (Nazi) Partyfounded by Adolf Hitler in period of Great Depression in Germany36
6719094886BlitzkriegGerman term meaning lightening warfare; involved rapid movement of troops and tanks37
6719097257Vichycollaborationist French government established in Vichy (southern France) 1940 following defeat by Germany38

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