Chapter 15 Vocab the twentieth century and beyond
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Zionism | A worldwide movement, originating in the 19th century that sought to establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948, its function has been to support the state of Israel. |
| Reza Khan | An ambitious army officer -> overthrew the shah, sets up own Pahlavi Dynasty. rused to modernize (builds factories roads and railroads and strengthens the army, adopts western alphabet, clothes, schools) |
| Boers | Dutch settlers in South Africa |
| Afrikaners | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735) |
| Jomo Kenyatta | A nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Pan-Africanism | emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent around the world |
| Palestine | an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean |
| Wafd Party | Nationalist Egyptian party, which pushed for independence and was the ruling party until Nasser's coup |
| Herbert Macaulay | a Nigerian nationalist, politician, engineer, journalist, and musician and considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism` |
| Sykes-Picot | The agreement between Britain and France to divide up the Ottoman Empire post war to expand their own Empires. |
| Ataturk | Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) |
| Palestine | an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean |
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