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Great Leap Forward |
China's attempt to reorganize its economy in the 1950s.
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Cultural Revolution
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China's attempt to improve its economy in the 1960s by reorganizing its farms, businesses, & most of its society.
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Four Modernizations
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China's attempt in the 1970s to reorganize its economy.
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Green Revolution
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It is a time period in India in the 1960s, when India tried to modernize their agricultural system by introducing new types of seeds and grains.
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Indian National Revolution
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A two-house legislature made up of representatives elected from all across the country of India.
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Muslim League
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A group organized in 1855 in an effort to put more power into the hands of Indians.
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Rowlatt Act
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It allowed the British to arrest Indians who protested and sent them to jail for up to two years without a trial.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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A leader who fought for India's independence through the use of civil disobedience & nonviolent protests.
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dominion
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It is having control or the exercise of control over another country.
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Vietminh League
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A group that had Vietnamese independence as its goal.
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Mahatma
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It means "Great Soul".
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Satyagraha |
Gandhi spoke of this power or the force of truth.
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reparations
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The payment for damages done to property.
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Mao Zedong
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The founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Long March
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It is a 6000 mile journey that Zedong & his followers took to avoid capture by the Chinese government.
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Red Army
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Republic of China's Communist army.
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cooperatives
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Farms that are owned by the government & tell the workers what to plant.
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Tiananmen Square
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A huge plaza in Beijing that is a major site of a student demonstration in 1989.
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Cold War
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It is a state of political tension & military rivalry between nations that stops short of a full-scale war, especially between the U.S. and Soviet Union following WWII.
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Domino Theory |
It basically means if one country falls to communism, all the neighboring countries would fall as well.
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