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sepoy mutiny
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One of the most well-known uprisings during the British colonization of India was a mutiny of the native troops known as "sepoys
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sikhs and gurkhas
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gurkhas nepal
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indian national congress
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one of the two major political groups in india
the Indian National Congress became a pivotal participant in the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its struggle against British colonial rule in India. After independence in 1947, it became the nation's dominant political party, led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major challenges for party leadership have only recently formed. |
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mahatma gandhi
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the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India
Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world |
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satyagraha
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"insistence on truth"
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harijans
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"children of god"
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spinning wheel
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sewing
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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first prime minister of india
paramount leader of indian independence movement |
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the Young Turks
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from turkey
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Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk)
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turkish army officer in ottoman military
first president of turkey led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence |
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Reza Khan
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was the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from 15 December 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
introduced many social, economic, and political reforms during his reign, ultimately laying the foundation of the modern Iranian state. deposed Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty, and founded the Pahlavi dynasty |
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Qajar and Pahlavi Dynasty
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officially the Imperial State of Iran,[2] was the reigning constitutional monarchy of Iran from 1925 until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and abolished as a result of the Iranian Revolution
The Pahlavis came to power after Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, proved unable to stop British and Soviet encroachment on Iranian sovereignty, and was consequently overthrown in a military coup, abdicated and ultimately exiled to France. |
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Balfour Declaration and Palestine
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was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland
The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917.[2] The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine. |
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Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia
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was the first monarch of Saudi Arabia, the third Saudi State
presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in 1938 and the beginning of large-scale oil exploitation after World War II. He was the father of many children having 45 sons,[4] including all of the subsequent kings of Saudi Arabia. |
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Aramco
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officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company
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Sun Yat Sen and the Guomindang
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chinese revolutionary
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General Yuan Shikai
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a general
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"Mr. Sai" and Mr. De
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democracy
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The twenty-one Demands
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a set of demands made by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu sent to the nominal government of China on January 18, 1915, resulting in two treaties with Japan on May 25, 1915.
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Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanjang Republic
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republic
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Mao Zedung
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a Chinese communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political theorist
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Mao's Long March
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march to power
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Taisho Democracy
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democracy
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zaibatsu
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financial clique;
referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II. |
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Shidehara diploamcy
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idk
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"banana republics"
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a politically unstable country whose economy is largely dependent on the export of a single limited-resource product, such as bananas
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United Fruit Company
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an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe
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Good Neighbor Policy
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main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
Herbert Hoover paved the way for it and coined the term "Good Neighbor". |
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Juan Peron
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three times elected as President of Argentina, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown by a coup d'état
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Evita Peron
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first lady of argentina
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Porfirio Diaz
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Díaz and his allies would rule the country for the next thirty-five years, a period known in Mexico as the Porfiriato.
served 7 terms as mexico president |
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Zapata
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leading figure in mexico revolution
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Diego Riviera
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prominent mexican painter
mexican mural movement |
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Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
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alliance: italy, germany, austria hungary
entente: britain, france, russia |
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Serbia and the Balkan Wars
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Sarajevo
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Germany's "full support"
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The Schlieffen plan and neutral Belgium
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First Battle of the Marne
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what: first world war battle when: 1914 where: why important?: allied victory |
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Battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes
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"no man's land"
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battle of Verdun
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Ottoman Empire
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Gallipolli
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Lusitania
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Alfred von Zimmerman and Mexico
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DORA
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Georges Clemenceau
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"Daddy what did YOU do in the great war?"
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Vladmir Ulyanov and "What is to be Done?"
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Bolsheviks and Menshiviks
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The February and October Revolutions of 1917
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Leon Trotsky and the "dustbin of history"
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Whites vs. Reds
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"Peace, land, and Bread"
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the Cheka
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Second Battle of the Marne
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Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
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who: Woodrow Wilson
what: statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe when: 1918 where: why important?: |
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"A general association of nations"
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David Lloyd George
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Treaty of Versailles and Article 231
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"dictated peace"
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Yugoslavia
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reparations and the Ruhr
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who: france and belgium
what: occupation when: 1920s where: ruhr why important?: a response to the failure of the German Weimar Republic to pay reparations |
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the Treaty of Locarno
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who: chamberlain, briand, stresemann
what: seven agreements when: 1925 where: Locarno, Switzerland why important?: introducing a hope for international peace |
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact
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who: frank b kellog; aristide briand
what: pact to not result to war when: 1928 where: germany, france, USA why important?:served as one of the legal bases establishing the international norms that the threat or use of military force in contravention of international law, as well as the territorial acquisitions resulting from it are unlawful |
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"normalcy"
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who: Warren G. Harding
what: when: where: why important?: a return to the way of life before World War I |
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France's "Cartel of the Left"
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who: 2 french leftist parties
what: when: where: france why important?: a coalition government formed by 2 French leftist parties- the radicals & socialists (who shared a belief in antimilitarism & supported education) |
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Paul von Hindenburg
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who: second president of germany
what: when: where: why important?: led victory at tannenberg |
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the Weimar Republic
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who: federal republic
what: the name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy when: 1919 where: germany why important?: successfully reformed the currency, unified tax policies and the railway system and it did eliminate most of the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles |
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the Great Depression
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who: farmers, families, construction
what: severe worldwide economic depression when: 1930s and 1940s where: worldwide why important?: had devastating effects in countries rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%, and in some countries rose as high as 33% |
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John Maynard Keynes
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who: john maynard keynes
what: british economist when: 1930s where: britain why important?: His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots. |
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Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
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who: Franklin Roosevelt
what: a series of domestic economic programs enacted in the United States. relief, recovery, reform when: post great-depression where: america why important?: ended concept of self-reliance, gave americans the idea that the government would step in and help when necessary, made government more responsible |
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"war communism"
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the New Economic Policy
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who: Vladimir ilyich Lenin
what: economic policy, more capitalism- oriented economic policy necessary after the Civil War to raise the economy of the country when: post civil war where: america why important?: replaced by Stalin's first five year plans |
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Joseph Djugashville/Stalin
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"socialist industrialization" and the five year plans
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avant-garde art
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Dada and Marcel Duchamp
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Salvadore Dali and surrealism
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who: salvadore dali (surrealist)
what: prominent Spanish surrealist painter when: 1930s where: spain why important?: His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters |
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abstract expressionism
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who: american artists
what: american post-world war II art movement in painting when: 1940s where: America why important?: It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world |
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bauhaus school
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who: Walter Gropius
what: school in germany that combined fine arts and crafts when: 1919-1933 where: Germany why important?: The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. |
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James Joyce's Ulysses and the "stream of consciousness"
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who: james joyce
what: book when: february 1922 where: paris why important?: considered to be one of the most important modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement" |