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Mexican dictator who stepped down in 1911
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Porfirio Diaz
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Mexican liberal reformer who demanded free elections in 1910 and forced the resignation of the current mexican dictator and then became dictator for two years b4 he was murdered
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Madero
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post-madero, north mexican leader=
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa
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post-Madero, south mexican leader and followers
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Zapata
Zapatists |
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1917 ____ elected president of mexico
who approved ____ |
Carranza
Constitution of 1917 |
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Constitution of 1917
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Mexico
allowed nationalization (government takover) of natural resources basic workers rights |
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1929 ______ ________ party formed, dominates mexico politics even today
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Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
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Economic Nationalism
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emphasis on domestic control of the economy
Latin American Countries during the 1930s when demand dries up |
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Cultural Nationalism
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pride in one's own culture
revived in Mexico with mural painting (art form of aztecs) |
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Diego Rivera
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mexican muralist 1930s
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jose clemente orozco
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mexican muralist 1930s
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
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mexican muralist 1930s
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US initial policy towards latin america, then its most recent policy and who initiated it
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first, "international policemen"
roosevelt, "good neighbor" |
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Kiyuku
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Kenyans who protested white rule and racist acts (identification cards, jobs, etc)
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"Women's War" in Nigeria
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Ibo women protest british policies, full-scale revolt
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1948 South Africa
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Apartheid
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Apartheid
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policy of strict racial separtion in South Africa
1948-1989 |
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Pan-Africanism
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emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent around the world
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Marcus Garvey
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jamaican born
most famous pan-africanism person |
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Negritude Movement
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french-speaking african movement to embrace heritage
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Egyptian independence
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Wafd Party protests, 1922 Britain agrees to give independence but stay as real power behind gov't
1930s Muslim brotherhood protests |
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Ataturk
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Mustafa Kemal
gained independence for Turkey, declared republic westernized Turkey |
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Iranian independence
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1925 Reza Khan
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Turkish independence
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1923 Ataturk
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Reza Khan
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Iran
westernized began oil deals with Britain (big issue in present) |
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Pan-Arabism
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post WWI
sought to free Arabs from foreign domination and unite them in their own state |
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Arab problems with Paris Peace Conference after WWI
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arab states promised independence, but divided into colonies for west
betrayal |
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modern Zionist movement founded by...
goal= |
Theodor Herzl
independent jewish state in Palestine |
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WWII promises in palestine
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1917 Balfour Declaration promises "national home for Jewish people" in Palestine
(but arabs already live there) Arabs promised own kingdoms |
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Amritsar
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city in India where 50 british soldiers open fire on men women and children meeting inside a walled area in the city
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Gandhi
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Mahatma "great soul"
passive resistance "satya-graha" (soul-force) equal rights for everyone |
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ahimsa
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non violence
gandhi |
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dhoti
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white clothing worn by majority of indians
Gandhi |
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The Salt March
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Gandhi
March 12 end to british salt monopoly |
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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congress party leader
wanted independent Muslim Pakistan |
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WWII and India
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British delay inevitable independence
force Indian help, but recieve very little independence afterward |
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1930s Dicators challenge World Peace (3)
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1931 Japan seizes Manchuria
1935 Mussolini invades Ethiopia 1936 Hitler puts troops in demilitarized zone |
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pacifism
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opposition to all war
1930s during world depression reason all invasions by japs, germans, italians ignored |
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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fight Soviet communism
wont get in the way of eachothers expansions |
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1931
1936 Spain |
Old Monarchy overthrown, contraversial republican gov't
--> Civil War |
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Spanish Civil War
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Loyalists vs Nationalists
Nationalists=Fascists=Franco Axis powers support nationalists Some of West supports loyalists Franco wins |
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Guernica
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Spanish civil war; bomb raid by german
Nazi experiment to test power of planes |
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Colonial Legacy:Economics
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introduced new industries
economic dependence on west large farms, etc still owned by west |
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Colonial Legacy:Politics
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Africans used to suppression, overbearing European rule
after independence expect to just "know" how to rule as a democratic nation when they have never been under one |
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Colonial Legacy:Health Care and Education
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limited/no access to education
didnt provide much health care, left to missionaries |
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Colonial Legacy: National Borders
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borders drawn by colonial powers
diverse ethnic groups, conflicting interests=civil war, unrest new leaders try to make unity where there is none |
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Post WWII-West's response to African nationalism
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early defeats by Jap show West weakness
West unwilling to fight and suppress indp. movements 1947 independence of india used as inspiration |
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Gold Coast (Ghana)
nationalist leader post WWII |
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Kenya
nationalist leader post WWII |
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Leopold Senghor
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Senegal
nationalist leader post WWII |
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Gold Coast/Ghana
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1957 from Britain
Kwame Nkrumah=prime minister, leader through independence changed name to Ghana; more african symbolism |
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Kenya
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1963 from Britian
Jomo Kenyatta made PM (spokesman for Kikuyu) Kikuyu vs White settlers Mau Mau uprising |
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Mau Mau uprising
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Kenya
Mau Mau=british name for guerrillas who rebelled against their rule made to look like savages |
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Algeria
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1962 independence from France
National Liberation Front by Muslim Algerians-guerilla warfare to try and get independence hugely costly to france and algeria |
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Anschluss
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union of Austria and Germany
engineered by hitler after forcing germans into gov't positions |
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germany's second victom after austria
what did they do to them |
Czechoslovakia
wanted autonomy for 3 mil germans in sudentenland (west Czech.)---french and british use appeasement and let hitler annex it |
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"Peace for our time"
"The fools, why are they cheering?" |
Chamberlin-GB
Daladier-France |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Hitler nonaggression pact with Stalin USSR
secretly agreed to divide up poland and not to fight eachother mutual need |
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after czech., germany invades ______
and then .... |
Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany |
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Blitzkreig
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Lightning War
hitlers war technique |
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Miracle of Dunkirk
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British trapped on coast, saved by merchant ships, etc
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Operation Sea Lion
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the invasion of Britain by Hitler
massive air strikes on London FAILED: GB morale increases |
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Operation Barbarossa
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post Op Sea Lion
invasion of Russia Russians=scorched earth policy; germans freeze/starve Stalin and Britain agree to work together |
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Atlantic Charter
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Roosevelt and Churchill
pledged to destroy nazi tyranny |
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Japanese General who orders Pearl Harbor, etc
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General Tojo Hideki
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The Big Three
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Churchill Roosevelt Stalin
mucho distrust |
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El Alamein
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Battle where British stop German Advance in Egypt
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Hitler vs. Stalin
Stalin wins, then drives Germans out of Russia entirely |
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Island hopping campaign in Pacific by..
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Douglas McArthur
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kamikaze
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pilots who kill themselves by crashing into ships
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first a bomb in...
second.. |
hiroshima
nagasaki |
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Zimbabwe guerilla leaders
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Mugabe and Nkomo
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Southern Rhodesia becomes....
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Zimbabwe
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South Africa
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Mandela
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White South African president who makes all the reforms and freed mandela
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FW de Klerk
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Namibia
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SWAPO Southwest African People's Organization
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