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29 Cards in this Set
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L1: Impact of WWI
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*1.2 million Indians served in the British imperial army.
*India experienced inflation *Total War-involved civilians and soldiers *Chinese Nationalism *Fascist government created in Italy by Mussolini |
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L1: Anti-colonial movement after WWI (1914-18)
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*India demanded self-governing institutions
*INC gained support from peasants *Shipping routes between Britain and India were reduced *Amritsar massacre (1919) - 400ppl celebrating Hindu festival *Gandhi became president of INC (1920) *First non-cooperation campaign (1920-22) *Simon Commission (1927) - established representative government in India *Chauri-Chaura (1922) - villager killed policemen; Gandhi halted non-cooperation movement |
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L1: Nationalist movement during 1920s and 30s
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*Gandhi opposed modern industrialization
*Indian National Congress - English-educated Indians; peaceful non-cooperation *Satyagraha - "truth force;" changing hears and minds; mass campaigns; promised "complete independence" *Salt March (1930) - provoke British to use force; spread nationalism *Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) - called-off salt protests; freed from prison |
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L1: Independence of India and Pakistan
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*Quit India (1942)
*Partition (1947) - millions of ppl moving; rioting and deaths *India gained independence (Aug 1947) *Republic of India established (1950) *Islamic Republic of Pakistan established (1956) - led by civilian leader and military generals *Jaqaharlal Nehru - first president of independent India *Lord Mountbatten - Britain's last viceroy; came to India in 1947 to become first governor of independent India *Global effects - nuclear power plant; space program; Green Revolution |
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L3: Communism in Russia
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*February Revolution (March 1917) - collapse of Imperial Russia; rise of Kerensky and the Non-Communist Russian Provisional Government(alliance between liberals and socialists)
*October Revolution (Nov 1917) - Lenin and Bolsheviks(Soviets) overthrew Provisional Government; began with rebellion in Petrograd |
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L3: Czar Nicholas II
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*Last czar of Russia
*Russia was an economic and political disaster under his rule *Replaced by Provisional Government *Executed |
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L3: Consolidation of Communism
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*Red Army - Leon Trotsky; Bolsheviks; fought White Russians
*First United Front (1923-27) - alliance of Nationalists and Communists; National Revolutionary Army; Northern Expedition *Second United Front (1937-46) - Nationalist and Communists stopped fighting each other and joined forces to fight against Japan |
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L3: Economic changes
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*New Economic Policy - Lenin; step away from communism
*Collective farms |
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L3: COMINTERN (1919)
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*Held seven world congresses
*Stalin installed communist governments throughout Eastern Europe |
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L3: Five-year Plans
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*Josef Stalin - led Soviet Union after Lenin's death
*Five-year plans - rapid industrialization; collectivization of agriculture; disrupted food production; led to famine; reduced earnings for workers *Kulaks - class of well-endowed peasants who were integrated into a classless system |
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S1: Globalization of feminism in the 20th century
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*Communist countries pioneered
*Later adopted by West |
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S1: Accomplishments of feminists
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*Russian government - full legal and political equality; work force; divorce and abortion; surname; pregnancy leave
*Zhenotdel (Russia, 1919) - conferences; newspapers/mags; encouraged Muslim women to take off their veils *China - Women's Federation and Marriage Law of 1950; free choice in marriage; easier divorce; end of child marriage; remarry; equal property rights |
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S1: American/Western European feminists v. African/Latin American/ Asian feminists
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African/Latin American/ Asian feminists - less radical; less talk of "free love" and "the withering away of the family"
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S3: African Independence
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*Nelson Mandela - African National Congress (1950s); nonviolence; first post-apartheid president
*Black consciousness - Steve Biko; reject idea of inferiority *Sharpville Massacre (1960) - nonviolent protest of pass laws *March at Soweto township - objections to learning Afrikaner language *1976 - turning point; ANC organized military forces and guerrilla campaigns outside the country *Neo-apartheid - Peter Botha; eliminated pass laws; three-chamber parliament(white,color, Indian); black labor unions legalized *Sanctions/boycotts *F.W. de Klerk - freed Mandela from prison |
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S3: Asian Independence
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*Satyagraha
*Non-cooperation movements *Gandhi president of INC (1920) *Simon Commission (1927) *Salt March (1930) *Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) |
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MC: Leon Trotsky
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Rose Red Army of Bolsheviks to fight White Russians
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MC: Kemal Ataturk
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General who led Turkey after WWI
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MC: Cuban Missile Crisis
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US and Soviet Union; Cold War
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MC: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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*Muslim League
*Argued for the creation of the Muslim nation, Pakistan |
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MC: European Economic Community
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Wanted economic integration between different European countries
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MC: Indira Gandhi
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*Prime minister of India (1966)
*First woman in high position of power after WWII *Became dictator with help of her son, Sanjay |
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MC: Mao Zedong
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*Communist Party of China
*Victory in Chinese Cold War *People's Republic of China |
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MC: Ayatollah Khomeini
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Iranian religious leader and politician
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MC: Nikita Khrushchev
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*General Secretary of the Communist Party following the death of Stalin
*Liberal reforms |
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MC: NATO
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Military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty
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MC: Neo-liberalism
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Free markets and free trade
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MC: Deng Xiaoping
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*Chine Communist Party
*People's Republic of China |
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MC: Treaty of Versailles
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Peace treaty at the end of WWI
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MC: Prague Spring (1968)
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Political liberalization of Czechoslovakia
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