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18 Cards in this Set
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1. Persepolis Commemoration (October 12-16, 1971)
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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
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Polish party trying to make the socialist regime in poland give them what they wanted 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
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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)
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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)
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Iran 1963 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi tried to win countryside over to regime 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)
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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)
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Shah of Iran ruled iran 1950s-1970s westernized backed by USA; US puppet important because westernized iran for a while Rezā Shāh Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Reza Phalavi Grandfather son grandson main shah of iran that we learn about
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8. SAVAK
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Iran Secret Police established by Mohammad Reza Shah with help of US in 1957 inacted extra-judicial killings 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)
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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)
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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 collectivization famine it was Mao’s own people who were dying important because caused the cultural revolution 1958-1961 disastrous program of catch up modernization 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 important because when deng rehabilitated himself this and the cultural revolution became what communism shouldn’t look like 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)
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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)
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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.)
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important because he was the dude who the persepolis celebration was held for 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 example of shah’s big disconnect from his population they were religious
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15. Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company)
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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 have to explain why it angered people so much indirect colonialism offending iranian nationalism became a major rallying cry in 1953 when the oil was nationalized and in 1979 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) |
whoever rules kabul (capital) is the leader of Afghanistan internationally but doesn’t really control everywhere because iran is like a swiss cheese state 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 not calling for islamic republic to be overthrown, looking for reform from within believer in idea of islamic law being a framework for modern law |
