Ap World chpter 29 terms Flashcards

364238713	Madero	moderate democratic Mexican reformer; assassinated in 1913.
364238714	Villa	Mexican revolutionary leader in northern Mexico after 1910.
364238715	Zapata	Mexican revolutionary commander of a guerrilla movement centered at Morelos; demanded sweeping land reform.
364238716	Herta	came to power in Mexico, 1913; forced from power 1914; tried to install Diaz-style government
364238717	Obregon	Mexican general; emerged as leader of government in 1915; later elected president.
364238718	Cardenas	Mexican president (1934-1940); responsible for large land redistribution to create communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education
364238719	Rivera and Orozco	Mexican artists working after the Mexican Revolution; famous for wall murals on public buildings that mixed images of the Indian past with Christian and communist themes.
364238720	Kerensky	liberal revolutionary leader during the early stages of the Russian Revolution of 1917; attempted development of parliamentary rule, but supported continuance of the war against Germany.
364238721	Stalin	Lenin's successor as leader of the USSR; strong nationalist view of communism; crushed opposition to his predominance; ruled USSR until death in 1953.
364238722	Shikai	warlord in northern China after the fall of Qing dynasty; president of China in 1912; hoped to become emeror, but blocked in 1916by Japanese intervention in China.
364238723	Yatsen	head of the Revolutionary Alliance that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing; president of China in 1911, but yielded to Yuan Shikai in 1912; created the Guomindang in 1919; died in 1925.
364238724	Li Dazhao	Chinese Marxist intellectual; rejected traditional views and stead saw peasants as the vanguard of socialist revolution; influenced Mao Zedong
364238725	Kai-shek	leader of the Guomindang from 1925; contested with the communists for control of china until defeated in 1949.
364238726	Mao Zedong	communist leader who advocated the role of the peasantry in revolution; led the communist to victory and ruled China from 1949 to 1976
364238727	Vargas	became president of Brazil following a contested election of 1929; led an authoritarian state; died in 1954.
364238728	Peron	dominated authoritarian and populist leader in Argentina from the mid-1940s; driven into exile in 1955; returned and elected president in 1973; died in 1974.
364238729	Evita	wife of Juan Peron; the regime's spokesperson for the lower social classes; died in 1952.
364238730	Hideki	Japanese general who dominated internal politics from the mid-19302; gave the military dominance over civilian cabinets.