Japanese Imperialism
The City attached by the Japanese in 1937
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 Jiang Jieshi
Long March
Hindu belief in nonviolence and reverence for all life
Ahimsa
A large estate or ranch; the main house of such a ranch
Hacienda
Apartheid
Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
Emperor of Japan during World War II
Hirohito
On May 4th, 1919, students in Peking protested Japan being given the Shantung province and all around China. It was an intellectual revolution of young, educated people in China, that was also a protest of China's weak government and their reaction to the Treaty of Versailles.
May 4th Movement
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.
Salt March
President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry
Lazaro Cardenas
Extreme sense of pride to your country. Extreme nationalism
An Ultranationalist or Ultranationalism
a list of demands that sought to make China a Japanese protectorate
Twenty-One Demands
(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.
Mao Zedong
Usually referred to as "Mahatma" (Great Soul), Gandhi (1869-1948) was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain.
Mahatma Gandhi
Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Porfirio Diaz
President Franklin Roosevelt's policy intended to strengthen friendly relations with Latin America
Good Neighbor Policy
(1887-1975) Leader of the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party in China. Fought to keep China from becoming communist, and to resist the Japanese during World War II. He lost control of China in 1949, and fled to Taiwan where he setup a rival government. Also known as Chang Kai Shek.
Jiang Jieshi
killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts
Amritsar Massacre
emphasis on home control of the economy
Economic Nationalism
Nationalization
Government takeover and ownership of banks, and the redistribution of their wealth
A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws
Civil Disobedience
Organized by the Mexican government in 1929, this party made political choices to accomodate many groups in Mexican society. Its leaders backed social reform.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
W.E.B. DuBois