Unit 5 Chap 22 Ap World History aaaaaa Flashcards

158472216	Chiang Kai-shek and GMD	...	0
158472217	Mao Zedong	Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). (789)	1
158472218	Long March	The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek. (789)	2
158472219	Communist Revolution	This political movement achieved success by promising the peasants of China land reform.	3
158472220	Cultural Revolution	a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard	4
158472221	Great Leap Forward	Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years	5
158472222	Deng Xiaping	takes over china after Chairman Mao, ends cultural revolution, modernizes agg and tech, still comunist	6
158472223	Tiananmen Square	Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life.	7
158472224	Soviet	a worker's council formed early in the Russian Revolution	8
158472225	100 Flowers Movement	1957	9
158472226	Amritsar Massacre	To protest the Rowlatt Act, Indians gathered in Amritsar, where British troops fired on the crowd killing several hundred. This sparked further protests	10
158472227	Mahatma Gandhi	Great revolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience based upon Henry David Thoreau's doctrines.	11
158472228	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).	12
158472229	Satyagraha	the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms	13
158472230	Harijan	belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India	14
158472232	Dalit	a member of a group of people in India, once known as "untouchables", who were outside the caste system; were considered lower than the lowest caste; have gained some rights under India's new constitution	15
158472234	Salt March	passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt.	16
158472235	Partition of Pakistan and India	...	17
158472237	Realpolitik	politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations	18
158472238	Kashmir	an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India	19
158472240	Nehru Dynasty	this was a family that led india for 40 years after India gained independence. Dedicated to social justice.	20
158472242	Indra Gandhi	only daughter of Nehra, educated in England, philosophy created by dad, 1966-becomes Prime Minister-strong economic policy, good at cold war politics, 1975-accused of corruption, has trouble with Sehks, killed by 2 Sehk bodyguards(1981)	21
158472243	Hindu marriage act	...	22
158472245	The Green Revolution	advanced technologies that greatly increased food production	23
158472247	British Commonwealth	an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown	24