Southeast Asia Vocabulary 2

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Mohandas Gandhi

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A Indian political and spiritual leader who protested British colonization and racism with peaceful and nonviolent protest.

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Indian National Revolution

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A two-house legislature made up of representatives elected from all across the country of India that fights for rights and freedoms for Indian citizens.

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Hiroshima

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A Japanese city, was bombed in 1945, first city in Japan to be attacked by Atomic Bomb.

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Nagasaki

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The second Japanese city to be bombed in WWII, after it was bombed Japan surrendered WWII.

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Cold War

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A war that was not fought with weapons. A forty year era after WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This was a time of tension and hatred between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Arms Race and the Space Race were results of the war.

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Domino Theory

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The theory that if one country becomes communist, the others in that area will follow and also become communist.

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Mao Zedong

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Founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Chairman and leader of the Communist China, started the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Died in 1976.

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The Great Leap Forward

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Actually the Great Leap backward, an event to make all farms public. Goals were unrealistic and a 3 year famine killed thirty million people. This was the largest famine in human history.

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Cultural Revolution

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An attempt to make Mao Zedong's reputation better after the great Leap Forward. Its purpose was to reinforce communist ideas \ reorganized the economy in 1950"s in China.

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Tienanmen Square

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A huge plaza in Beijing that is a major site of a student demonstration in 1989.

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Four Modernizations

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China's attempt in the 1970's to reorganize its economy

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Green Revolution

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Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations.

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Muslim League

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A group organized in 1855 in as effort to put more power into the hands of Indians.

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Rowlatt Act

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Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters (Indians)without trial for as long as two years

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dominion

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Control; rule; area of influence

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Vietminh League

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a group that had Vietnamese independence as its goal

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Mahatma

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Means "Great Soul"; Title given to Gandhi

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Satyriasis

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"Truth force," a term used by Gandhi to describe peaceful boycotts, strikes, noncooperation, and mass demonstrations to promote Indian independence.

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reparations

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Payment for damages after a war

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Long March

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6000 mile journey that Zedong & his followers took to avoid capture by the Chinese government.

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Red Army

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Republic of China's Communist army

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cooperatives

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farms owned and operated by the government & tell workers what to plant