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| the Chinese Communist party |
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| Political party founded by Mao and other revolutionaries |
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| Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) |
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| Leader of the Chinese Communists |
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| Class of people whom Mao sought as his party's base of support |
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| Chaotic condition of China from 1916 through the 1940s |
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| """Father of Modern China"" was was (briefly) the first president of the Chinese republic" |
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| Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) |
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| Nationalist leader in China after Sun Yixian's death |
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| the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) |
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| Nation that sent advisors to help China |
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| Nations that ignored the Nationalists' requests for help |
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| "The 6,000 mile trip of the communists to northwest China" |
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| socialists and communists (or peasants and workers) |
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| "Supporters of China's left wing, ejected from the Nationalist party" |
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| Class of people who supported the nationalists |
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| Nickname of Mao's fighting forces |
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| Nation that invaded and took over eastern China in 1937 |
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| New base of the Chinese Communists after their year-long trek |
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| "the Nationalist party, or the Kuomintang (Guomindang)" |
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| Political party that tried to establish a Chinese republic |
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| "China's last dynasty, overthrown in 1912" |
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| Reform movement sparked by student protests in 1919 |
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| "China's industrial northern province, invaded by Japan in 1931" |
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| Soviet leader whom Mao and his fellow communists admired |
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| Capital city of both the Nationalists and the occupying Japan |
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| Japanese head of state who wielded no real power |
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| "In th 1920s, Japan agreed to limit the size of this part of its military forces." |
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| Element of Japanese society that controlled the government by the 1930s |
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| "raw materials, or markets for its products" |
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| Need for these fueled Japan's desire to expand |
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| Growth of this fueled Japan's desire to expand. |
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| Neighboring country that Japan invaded in the 1930s |
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| "Important source of Japanese wealth, disrupted by the Great Depression" |
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| Man who reigned on Japan's throne from 1926 to 1989 |
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| Increased characteristic of Japanese government during the 1920s |
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| Term for extreme nationalists |
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| Northern Chinese province that Japan seized in 1931 |
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| "Kellogg-Briand Pact--Japan pledged to renounce this ""as an instrument of national policy.""" |
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| Japan put pressure on this neighbor with the Twenty-One Demands in 1915 |
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| powerful business leaders |
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| "Zaibatsu, people who strongly influenced politics in the 1920s" |
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| Name of the Japanese Parliament |
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| Values vigorously promoted by the military-dominated government |
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| Japan's name for its puppet state in Manchuria |
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| Int'l body that Japan withdrew from in 1933 b/c of condemnation of Japanese aggression |
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| Indian nationalist leader |
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| "Indians' name for Ghandhi, meaning ""saintly one"" or ""Great Soul""" |
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| Imperialist country that ruled India as its colony |
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| "The way to respond to British shootings and beatings, according to Gandhi" |
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| Hindu social system that Gandhi opposed |
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| Britain promised more self-government if Indians fought in this war. |
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| British-made item that Indians boycotted widely |
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| Peaceful protest led by Gandhi to defy the British laws about salt |
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| Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law |
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| "Gandhi's profession, which he practiced in South Africa" |
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| Non-Hindu Indian independence group |
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| nonviolent noncooperation |
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| Gandhi's policy of peaceful resistance through refusing to cooperate with the government |
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| the Indian National Congress (or Congress party) |
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| India's leading political party |
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| Indian province where the Amritsa massacre took place in 1919 |
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| local self-government and/or limited democratic elections |
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| Reforms allowed by the Government of India Act of 1935 |
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| Leader of the Muslim League beginning in the 1930s |
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| a separate independent state |
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| New goal of the Muslim League under Jinnah |
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| Social injustice that Gandhi worked against in South Africa |
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| the dhoti (or a simple and traditional white garment) |
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| Garment adopted by Gandhi in place of western clothing |
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| Middle Eastern land promised to both Jews and Arabs by Great Britain |
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| "Surname adopted by Turkish leader, meaning ""Father of the Turks""" |
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| New name of Persia as of 1935 |
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| System of racial segregation and discrimination set up in South Africa |
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| Two rival peoples in Palestine |
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| Revolutionary leader who was the first president of Turkey |
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| People the Arabs fought in return for British support of an Arab state |
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| Policy of modernization followed in Turkey and Iran by Araturk and Reza Shah |
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| North African nation that gained independence in 1922 but was still controlled by Britain |
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| Nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs |
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| Movement that focused on the unity of all Africans |
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| New Islamic nation founded by Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud |
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| "Territories in the Middle East governed by European nations, set up at the end of WWI" |
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| Empire that the Turkish Revolution ended |
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| Oil-rich kingdom that gained independence in 1930 |
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| "British statement that ""viewed with favor"" a Jewish ""national home""" |
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| Reza Khan (Reza Shah Pahlavi) |
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| Army officer who overthrew Iran's shah and set up his own Pahlavi dynasty |
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| West African movement that promoted pride in African roots |
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| Jamaican native who promoted the message "Africa for Africans" |
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