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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Sun Yat-sen |
Head of Revolutionary Alliance, organization that led 1911 revolt against Qing dynasty in China; brieftly elected president in 1911, but yielded in favor of Yuan Shikai in 1912
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: May Fourth movement |
Resistance to Japanese encroachments in China began on this date in 1919; spawned movement in intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Family by Ba Jin |
A novel written by Ba Jin where a young man boldy tells his brother that he will not accept the marriage partner the family has arranged for him; captures the theme of the promotion of Western-style individualsim.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Li Dazhao |
Chinese intellectual who gave serious attention to Marxist philosophy; headed study circle at the University of Beijing; saw peasants as vangaurd of revolutionary communism in China.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: 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.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: New Youth |
Marxist periodical in China; did much to spread the ideas of Marx and Lenin among the politically active youth of China's coastal cities.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Socialist Youth Corps |
Formed in 1920 in China; dedicated to recruiting urban working classes to the nationalist revolution in China.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Zhou Enlai |
After Mao Zedong, the most important leader of the Communist party in China from the 1930s until his death in 1976; premier of China from 1954; notable as perhaps the most cosmopolitan and moderate of the inner circle of Communist leaders.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: 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.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Whampoa Military Academy |
Founded in 1924; military wing of the Guomindang; first head of the academy was Chiang Kai-shek.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Chiang Kai-shek |
A military officer who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Guomindang or Nationalist Party in China in the mid- 1920s; became the most powerful leader in China in the early 1930s, but his Nationalist forces were defeated and driven from China by the Communists after World War 2.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Long March |
Communist escape from Hunan province during the civil war with Guomindang in 1934; center of Communist power moved to Shaanxi province; firmly established Mao Zedong as head of the Communist party in China
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: The People's Republic of China |
Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: People's Liberation Army |
Chinese Communist army; administerd much of country under People's Republic of China
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Mass Line |
Economic policy of Mao Zedong; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives in 1955; cooperatives became farming collectives in 1956.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Great Leap Forward |
Economic policy of of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed industrialization of small-scale projects integrated into peasant communes; led to ecomonic disaster; ended in 1960.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Pragmatists |
Chinese Communist politicians such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui; determined to restore state direction and mark incentives at the local level; opposed Great Leap Forward.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Deng Xiaoping |
One of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leads of China; joined the party as a young man in the 1920s, survived the legendary Long March and persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and emerged as China's most influential leader in the early 1980s.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Jiang Qing |
Wife of Mao Zedong; one of the Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported Cultural Revolution of 1965; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Cultural Revolution |
Movement initiated in 1965 by Mao Zedong to restore his dominance over pragmatists; used mobs to ridicule Mao's political rivals; campaign was called off in 1968.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Red Guard |
Student brigades utilized by Mao Zedong and his political allies during the Cultural Revolution to discredit Mao's political enemies
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Gang of Four |
Jiang Qing and four political allies who attempted to seize control of the Communist government in China from the pragmatists; arrested and setenced to life imprisonment in 1976 following Mao Zedong's death.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Tayson Rebellion |
Peasant revolution in southern Victnam during the late 1770s; succeeded in toppling the Nguyen dunasty; subsequently unseated the Trinh dynasty of northern Vietnam.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Nguyen Anh |
Last surviving member of Nguyen dynasty following Tayson Rebellion in Vietnam; with French support retook southern Vietnam; drove Tayson from northern Vietnam by 1802; proclaimed himself emperor with capital at Hue.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Minh Mang |
Second emperor of a united Vietnam; successor of Nguyen Anh; ruled from 1820 to 1841; sponsored emphasis of Confucianism; persecuted Catholics.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Vietnamese Nationalist Party |
Also known as the Vietnamese Quoc Dan Dong or VNQDD; active in 1920s as revolutionary force committed to violent overthrow of French colonialism.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Communist Party of Vietnam |
Originally a wing of nationalist movement; became primary nationalist party after decline of VNQDD in 1929; led in late 1920s by Nguyen Ai Quoc, alias Ho Chi Minh.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Viet Cong |
Name give by Diem regime to Communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam; reorganized with northern Vientnamese assistance as the National Liberation Front in 1958.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Viet Minh |
Communist-dominated Vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during World War 2; employed guerilla tactics similar to the Maoists in China.
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War and Revolution in China & Vietnam
Vocabulary: Dien Bien Phu |
Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern position of Vietnam.
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