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18 Cards in this Set
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1. Persepolis Commemoration (October 12-16, 1971) |
* 1970s
* Iran * commemoration of Cyrus the Great * Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was the Shah who created this * Lavish celebration costing millions of dollars * Was a terrible political move because he had this celebration when his people were starving * he saw it as a symbol of how powerful he was but everyone else saw it as inappropriate and it alienated him from his people |
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2. Solidarity |
* included workers rights, freedom of relgion
* happened after pope John Paul’s 1st visit * 1980s * important because this was the party that took over after communist rule ended |
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3. Pashtunwali |
* tribal customary law practiced by people on the afghan/pakistan border
* nothing to do with islamic law * taliban implemented this when they took over advertising it as islamic law * were tribalizing rather than islamizing * 1990s |
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4. “Guardianship of the Jurists” (1970) |
* book written in 1970 in Iran
* not taken seriously when first created * said that the 12th imam is the only real leader of the shia and for now the ayatollas are (islamic scholars; jurist consults) are the ones who should lead * the ayatollas have temporary guardianship of the shia muslims until the macti comes back * Khomeini implemented this when he came into power |
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5. White Revolution (1963) |
* Iran 1963
* Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi * abolish feudalism, education reform, dam construction, social security, price stablization, health and reconstruction corps, etc. * caused countryside to go from feudalism to sharecropping * was a good thing, shah wanted people to like his image * called the white revolution because it wasn’t red/communist or violent |
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6. Mossadegh Coup (1953) |
* Coup in Iran by CIA that put Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi into power
* 1953 * ousted Mossadegh because he wasn’t agreeing with the US and Britain controlling their oil |
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7. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) |
* Shah of Iran
* ruled iran 1950s-1970s * backed by USA; US puppet * important because westernized iran for a while |
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8. SAVAK |
* Iran Secret Police established by Mohammad Reza Shah with help of US in 1957
* probably killed Ali Shariati, who was important in building up the revolution against the shah |
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9. Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre (April 15-June 4, 1989) |
* In china in 1989, Deng had done the capitalist thing for a while in shenzhen
* because this was happening, the people were like hey, now we want democracy * They staged a potest in Tiananmen square in the center of Beijing, the capital of China * the military slaughtered them * it was caught on TV * huge international attention * demonstrates idea that liberalizing china’s economy did not make it a democracy |
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10. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) |
* person who started socialist market economy in china in shenzhen in 1980s
* important because that market economy is why the US trades with China so much * ruled china 1970s-1990s |
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11. Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) |
* China’s equivalent of the 5 year plan
* famine * it was Mao’s own people who were dying * important because caused the cultural revolution * 1958-1961 * idea that communist economies can outdo other economies * mass collectivization campaign * trying to get people out of cities into countryside * over 1 mil people ended up dying from exposure and starvation * that was his justification to open up chinese economy to western economies * example of how much things can go wrong if communism is not done well |
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12. Karol Wojtyla (1902-2005) |
* First person to become a Polish Pope
* became Pope John Paul II * His visit to poland in 1979 started the Solidarity party and was important in causing the overthrow of the communist regime in Poland * pope 1970s-2005? |
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13. Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour (1992) |
* Deng going around and spreading socialist market economy to southern china after he retired from being president
* important because firmly established socialist market economy in china * 1992 |
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14. Cyrus the Great (d. 531 B.C.) |
* idea was to allude back to his greatness
* died in 531 BC * leader of iran * ruled iran when it was the largest empire in the world * was also a secular leader which shows shahs disconnect from his population, which was religious * cyrus the great was pagan which set him aside from the rest of the iranians * the shah of iran was trying to connect himself to the imperial grandeur of the ancient persian empire as exemplified by cyrus * reliance of secular nationalism * they were religious |
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15. Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) |
* Europeans came in and gave Iran a lump sum of money to have possession of their as s loads of oil
* started in first decade of 1900s * important because sort of fuc ked Iran * indirect colonialism * offending iranian nationalism * don’t have to respond to the ’53 part |
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16. Ali Shariati (1933-1977) |
* Dude who was important in shi t talking the Shah and starting up the religious anti shah movement
* did that a lot in 1950s-1970s because that’s when shah ruled * killed in 1977 probably by SAVAK * made all the young muslims to turn to shia islam as revolutionary force |
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17. “Mayor of Kabul” (as a concept, not one specific person) |
* shows how alien a centralized government is for this country
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18. Shirin Ebadi (b. 1947) |
* born 1940s
* author of iran awakening * nobel prize winner * has advocated for women’s rights in the islamic republic of iran * someone who benefited greatly from westernization things of the shah but was also alienated from shah’s regime because not islamic fundamentalist * believer in idea of islamic law being a framework for modern law |
