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Sun Yat-Sen
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first leader of the Republican China, known as the Father of the Nation. Played a key role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and led revolutions against powerful warlords who held power in areas of China. Created "Principles of the People" which advocated nationalism, democracy, and livelihood
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Manhattan Project
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in reaction to reports claiming that Germany was investigating atomic weapons, the U.S. developed the Manhattan Project, which eventually led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The controversial dropping of this catastrophically destructive weapon on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan would mark the dawn of a new atomic age.
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kulak
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a wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union, who Stalin eventually succeeded in naming an internal enemy. in a method known as "dekulakization," these kulaks were killed, arrested, or shipped into forced labor as a part of Stalin's plan to collectivize Soviet Russia during the Five-Year Plans of industrialization.
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader believed revolutions could be based on peasantry of China because they were the majority. The communist party utilized guerrilla warfare in both civil war against the Chinese nationalists and against Japanese. Eventually coming out stronger after the civil war due to their concentration in rural areas, the communist party was able to take over China and still remains the political party present there today.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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leader of the Chinese nationalist party that concentrated on unifying China and decreasing power of the warlords. Advocated belief in democracy, but continued social problems such as banditry and taxes lead to rivalry with communists, breaking into civil war. Nationalists end up coming out weaker after civil war due to Japanese invasion because they were concentrated in urban areas, and flee China to become leaders of today's Taiwan.
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appeasement
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the granting of certain concessions in order to avoid greater conflict
british prime minister Chamberlain's use of of appeasement with Nazi Germany, giving Hitler possession of the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia, immediately prior to the outbreak of World War II has caused the term to be associated with weakness and today |
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great purge
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conducted by Stalin in Soviet Russia, the Great Purge was an effort to rid the Soviet Union of all persons suspected of government and policy opposition. Stalin executed or discharged these people in order to eliminate any internal resistance of his policies prior and during World War II.
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