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42 Cards in this Set
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Cape Colony
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first section of Southern Africa under formal European colonial control
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Great Trek
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mass migration of Boers out of British controlled territory in coastal areas into the interior of South Africa
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Scorched Earth Policy
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in 1900, British troops were ordered to burn down every Boer town or farm they came across and destroy all food supplies.
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National Party
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vehicle for white ethnic mobilization and political competition
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‘apartheid’
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Afrikaans word for ‘separateness’; a system of institutionalized segregation and domination based on race
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Population Registration Act (1950)
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All residents were required to report to the Office for Race Classification in order to be officially classified as one of four recognized ‘races.
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Group Areas Act (1950)
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The legitimacy formula that the apartheid regime devised was as simple as it was depraved. How do you justify denying rights to the vast majority of citizens? Easy, you turn them into non-citizens.
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homelands
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artificial ‘independent’ countries within South Africa of which Blacks were supposedly citizens
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influx control
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measures used to regulate the inflow of black Africans into South Africa's urban areas during apartheid era
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township
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specifically designated ghettos far from white areas within which blacks were required to live
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constituent assembly
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an elected or appointed assembly chosen to write a new national constitution
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transitional justice
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form of dealing with human rights abuses in post-conflict/post-authoritarian societies that seeks to balance desire for punishment with need for reconciliation
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negative rights
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things the state cannot do to you
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positive rights
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things state must do for you, i.e. Provide public education
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COSATU
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South Africa’s largest/powerful trade union confederation
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AIDS denialism
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those who either deny that AIDS exists or that HIV causes AIDS
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dynastic rule
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governing system based on hereditary succession
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Mandate of Heaven
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Chinese legitimization formula which grants a divine right to govern as long as it was “just”
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mandarins
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high level scholar- officials responsible for administering state bureaucracy
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meritocracy
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system in which jobs/positions are awarded in on the basis of ability, not connections or family
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Confucianism: Three Ideals That Reinforce Status Quo
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1. Paternalism
2. Emphasis on Stability and Harmony 3. Strictly Proscribed Roles and Behavior |
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Treaty Ports
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areas along coast over which China was forced to cede control/sovereignty to other countries
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Sun Yat-Sen
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foreign-educated reformer who sought to establish a Western-style democratic republic in China
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Long March
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nearly 8000 mile trek to remote Yanan Province in only one year
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Mao Tse Tung
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one of founders and ideological godfather of Chinese Communists
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Who's in Charge?
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Vlad says: Vanguardism
Mao says: ‘Mass-Line’ |
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Who’s our Constituency?
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Vlad says: Worker Base
Mao says: Peasant Base |
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What Tactics Will Win?
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Vlad says: Urban Terrorism
Mao says: Rural Guerrilla Warfare |
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Key Institutional Differences Between PRC & USSR
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1) CHINA IS UNITARY, NOT FEDERAL
2) POWER SHARING BETWEEN CCP & PLA 3) PARTY CELLS & CADRE SYSTEM |
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cadres
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‘professional revolutionaries’; backbone of leadership in both government and the CCP
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Bureaucratization
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stabilize the system, risk ‘revolutionary legitimacy’ by turning into the same thing you overthrew
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Permanent Revolution
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constantly struggling against status quo (even rev. Class), risk chaos/instability
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‘Reds’
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revolutionary idealists; ideological ‘true believers’
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‘Experts’
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technocratic pragmatists; administrators, not idealists
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Red Guards
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units of fanatically Maoist young people
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cult of personality
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extreme devotion to a single leader rather than the state or law
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Little Red Book
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book of quotations by Mao Tse-Tung which served as the ideological foundation of the Cultural Revolution
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Gang of Four
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Mao’s closest advisors, including his wife, during Cultural Revolution
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‘Liberals’
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who wanted political reform (i.e., more openness, less restriction) to accompany economic reform
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‘Hardliners’
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who were absolutely opposed to any introduction of political ‘liberalization’ (ie, perestroika without glasnost)
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crony capitalism
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an allegedly capitalist economy in which success in business depends on ties to government officials
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insurrection
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undirected spontaneous uprising designed to bring down current regime
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