AP World History Chapter 29 Terms Flashcards

154173972	Kellogg-Briand Pact	A treaty coauthored by American and French leaders in 1928; in principle outlawed war forever; ratified subsequently by other nations.	0
154173973	Cubist movement	20th-century art style; best represented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes.	1
154173974	Fascism	Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction.	2
154173975	Mussolini	Italian Fascist leader after World War I; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalist glories.	3
154173976	Zaibatsu	The large family-controlled banking and industrial groups that owned many companies in Japan before World War II.	4
154173977	Porfirio Diaz	a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants	5
154173978	Alexander Kerensky	Liberal revolutionary leader during the early stages of the Russian Revolution of 1917; sought development of parliamentary rule, religious freedom.	6
154173979	Leon Trotsky	Supporter of Lenin who helped in the takeover of Petrograd and the Bolshevik revolution	7
154173980	Soldaderas	Women who were guerrilla fighters in the Mexican Revolution	8
154173981	Joseph Stalin	Successor to Lenin as head of the USSR; strongly nationalist view of communism; represented anti-Western strain of Russian tradition; crushed opposition to his rule; established series of five-year plans to replace New Economic Policy; fostered agricultural collectivization; led USSR through World War II; furthered Cold War with western Europe and the United States; died in 1953	9
154173982	Bolsheviks	Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. Under Lenin's leadership, the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution.	10
154173983	Sun Yat Sen	Chinese physician and political leader who aimed to transform China with patriotic, democratic, and economically progressive reforms.	11
154173984	May 4th movement	Resistance to Japanese encroachments in China began on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism.	12
154173985	Mao Zedong	Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958.	13
154173986	The Long March	Communist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomindang in 1934; center of Communist power moved to Shanxi province; firmly established Mao Zedong as head of the communist party in China.	14
154173987	Comintern	International office of communism under USSR dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere.	15
154173988	Soviet	Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917	16
154173989	Guomindang	Chinese nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; drew support from local warlords and Chinese criminal underworld; initially forged alliance with Communists in 1924; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925.	17