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Terms | Definitions |
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 B.G. Tilak | first populist leader in India; believed that Indian nationalism should be grounded in the Hindu majority. |
| Dinshawi incident | 1906 fracas between British soldiers and Egyptian villagers that resulted in an accidental Egyptian death; Egyptian protest led to harsh repression which stimulated nationalist sentiment. |
| Montagu-Chelmsford reforms (1919) | increased national powers of Indian legislators and placed provincial administrations under ministries controlled by Indian-elected legislatures. |
| Rowlatt Act (1919) | placed severe restrictions on Indian civil rights; undercut impact of the MontaguChelmsford reforms. |
| Muslim League | founded in 1906 to support demands of the Muslim peoples of India against the Hindu majority; gained separate electorates and legislative seats; divided the Indian nationalist movement. |
| mandates | governments entrusted to victorious European World War I nations over the colonies of the defeated powers. |
| Zionism | Eastern European movement of the 1860s and 1870s that argued that Jews return to their Holy Land; eventually identified with settlement in Palestine. |
| Theodor Hertzl | Austrian Zionist; formed World Zionist Organization in 1897; was indifferent to Arabs and promoted Jewish immigration into Palestine to form a Jewish state. |
| Atlantic Charter (1941) | British-American agreement; included a provision that recognized the right of all people to choose their form of government. |
| Land Freedom Army | African revolutionary movement for reform of Kenyan colonial system; began a conflict in 1952; called the Mau Mau by the British. |
| Afrikaner National Party | became the majority in the all-white South African legislature in 1948; |
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