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Stalin to Fascism Review Sheet Vocabulary: Amritsar Massacre an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians performing acts of civil disobedience Balfour Declaration statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine civil disobedience illegal nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws collective large farm owned and operated by peasants as a large group command economy economic system in…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

Montenegro, and Croatia and Slovenia with Germany and Austria. Western influence played an important role with helping support Tito and Communist Yugoslavia (Savich). Yugoslavia was surrounded by the two blocks led by the two superpowers during the Cold War: the Soviet Union and the United States. The country was a founding member (together with Egypt and India, i.e. the three countries represented by their then leaders Tito, Nasser and Nehru) of the Non-Aligned Movement and most of the…

Ethnic Inequalities within Malaysia & in Comparison to India Background Malaysia: Malaysia is a multiracial country in Southeastern Asia that contains many ethnic groups within the country. Some of them are Malays, Chinese, Indians and indigenous Bumpitura groups. Malays are 51% of the population, Chinese are 22%, Indians are 6.7% and the Indigenous Bumipitura groups populate 11.8%. The remaining percentage is for other groups which account for 0.7% and non-citizens account for 8.2% of Malaysia…

Welcome, Mr. Marshall ( 1951 ), scripted by Bardem and directed by Berlanga, is a comic fable reminiscent of De Sica's Miracle in Milan. We can also see the impact in India. By the time Italian neorealist films arrived in India, the movement was in crisis in Italy. In 1952 some of the well known specimens of the movement came to India at the International Film Festival organised by Films Division. Though films from 23 countries came, neorealist films received special mention in the popular…

learned of gunpowder technology from fighting the Ottomans, and used the knowledge to conquer the lands currently known as Iraq and Iran (The Gunpowder Empires: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, n.d). The Mughals used firepower to control lands of modern day India, Pakistan,…

war. Russia, known as the Soviet Union during WWII was allied with Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, and the United States. They were known as the Allied Powers. Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the Soviet Union during the war. Despite both men being dictators in their respective countries, they had varying views on leadership. Stalin was a Communist and Mussolini was a Fascist. Communism is “a theory advocating the elimination of private property.” (Merriam –…

the G7. One of the requirements to become a country in the G7 is to have a high HDI. Pakistan and India used the CANDU nuclear reactors to make nuclear weapons. Operation Smiling Buddha was India’s first nuclear detonation, and it used a reactor similar to…

Khrushchev initially raised hopes of a better political and economic future for the USSR through his secret speech. His shocking condemnation of Stalin’s reign of terror and seemingly more liberal intentions of peaceful co-existence gave the impression of a new, markedly successful era for the USSR. However, these expectations were quickly dashed through a series of counterproductive and unsuccessful policies, most notably his grand but ill-fated agricultural schemes. Khrushchev displayd a…

Korea, which was under Japan’s rule, a Korean Declaration of Independence was created that advocated for freedom from Japan and wanted to equality in international affairs. India expected their war contributions to be rewarded with home rule from Great Britain. In response to this desire, British Secretary of State for India Montagu declared that they would endorse Indians being allowed in the government but this was seen as falling short when viewed alongside Wilson’s views on…