Modern World Chapter 16 and 17
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Porfirio Díaz | ruled Mexico for 35 years as dictator |
| Francisco Madero | liberal reformer who won elections after Diaz |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa | rebel from north, fought for personal power |
| Emiliano Zapata | lead peasant revolt |
| Zapatistas | name for followers of Emiliano Zapata |
| soldaderas | women soldiers who cooked, tended the wounded and fought along the men in Mexico |
| Venustiano Carranza | conservative president who passed constitution of 1917 in Mexico; passed some laws protecting woman's rights like having equal say in marriage fund spending |
| Constitution of 1917 | placed restrictions on foreigners owning land; allowed nationalization of natural resources; set minimum wage; protected striking rights of workers; made that women doing same jobs as men were entitled some pay; |
| What did the mexican government do to help battle stupid people? | set up schools and libraries; schools taught basic skills, teachers get low pay; |
| The fact that the schools in Mexico taught of nationalization helped Mexico become??? | the first latin american country to pursue real social and economic reforms for the majority of thepeople |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) | was able to satisfy all groups in Mexican society; nationalized foreign oil holdings; |
| economic nationalism | emphasis on domestic control of the economy; |
| economic nationalism in mexico | local factories set up; govenments urged to raise tariffs to protect new industries |
| cultural nationalism | pride in one's own cultrue |
| cultrual nationalism in mexico | reflected in painting murals, going back to the Aztecs |
| Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siquieros | muralists during the time of cultrual nationalism in mexico |
| Attack of Vera Cruz | USA vs. Mexcio punishment for imprisoning American sailors |
| Augusto César Sandino | guerrilla movement in Nicaragua |
| Good Neighbor Policy | states withdrew troops in Nicaragua and Haiti; also lifted platt amendment; Franklin Roosevelt |
| Platt Amendment | limited cuban independence |
| Kenya and Rhodesia | colonies in Africa for British? |
| What inspired africans, and which president's idea was it? | Woodrow Wilson- Self determination |
| Kikuyu | protest in kenya |
| Ibo | Nigeria |
| Women's War | Ibo women vs soldiers of british |
| apartheid | policy of strict racial separation in south Africa |
| African National Congress (ANC) | worked to remove laws restricting african freedom |
| Pan-Africanism | emphasized unity of Africa |
| Marcus Garvey | Pan- Africanist; Africa for Africans |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Leader of Pan-Africanism organized first Pan-African Congress |
| Pan-African Congress | met in paris; wanted to approve charter of African American rights |
| négritude movement | movement of pride in African roots |
| Léopold Senghor | Black Women, négritude movement |
| Egypt | received independence from British after WWI |
| Wafd Party | strikes and riots against British to get independence in Egypt |
| King Faud | king that took over when Egypt received independence |
| Muslim Brotherhood | fostered a road islamic nationalism that rejected western culture and denounced widespread corruption in Egyptian government |
| Mustafa Kemal | led kou of Turk gov, made it a republic; changed name to Atatürk |
| Atatürk | Father of the turks |
| Reforms done by Atatürk | replaced muslim calendar with western calendar; forced western wear; replaced aribic scrip with western alphabet; closed religous schools; opened state schools; no more polygamy; women do not have to veil faces |
| Polygamy | the custom allowing me to have more than one wife |
| Reza Khan | overthrew government in Iran; |
| Pahlavi | Name of dynasty set up by Reza Khan |
| Reforms done by Reza Khan | industrialized land (builting etc) adopt western alphabet; western clothes; secular schools; etc.; OIL was important |
| Pan- Arabism | sough free Arabs from forgein domination and unite them in their own state |
| Zionists | jewish naitonalists |
| Theodor Herzel | started the zionist movement |
| Balfour Declaration | British promised land of Palastine to jewish and Arab at the same time |
| Tragedy at Amritsar | Located in india Amritsar |
| Mahatma | great soul; title dubbed to Gandhi |
| satyagraha | soul force; weapon of nonviolent resistence |
| doctrine of ahimsa | nonviolence and reverence for all life |
| Henery David Thoreau | american philosopher who believed in civil dissobedience |
| civil disobedience | the refusal to obey unjust laws |
| dhoti | the simple white garment traditionally worn by village indians |
| Salt March Quote | With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | able leader of the muslim league wanted separate state for muslims |
| Pakistan | land of the rituallly pure |
| Sun Yixian | ruler of china that stepped down for powerful general |
| Yuan Shikai | powerful general that took over from Sun Yixian |
| May fourth movement | student protest agasint ijapan |
| Guomingdang | founded by Sun Yixian; nationalist party |
| Jiang Jieshi | took over Guomingdang after Sun Yixian |
| Chinese Communist Party | communists in china |
| Mao Zedong | lead Communist party |
| Red Bandits | name given to communists by Jiang Jieshi |
| long march | communists party of china fleeing from wrath of guomingdong |
| communists rules enforced during long march | obey orders; do not take anything from the people; turn in everything you capture; avoid damaging crops |
| rape of Nanjing | the creulty and destruction done by the Japanese in China |
| diet | the japanese parliment |
| Twenty-one demands | the demands sent by japanese to try and get more rights in china |
| ultranationalists | extreme nationalists |
| how did japan try and spread natoinalist message | schooling |
| spirit of Locarno | searies of treates that became symbol of war ban |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | banned all war |
| disarmament | the reduction of armed forces and weapons |
| overproduction | a condition in which production of good exceeds the demand for them |
| margin buying | parying part of the cost ang borowing the rest from bokers on the stock market |
| general strike | a strike by workers in many different industries at the same time |
| coalition government in Britian | sset up by all three major political parties in Britian |
| labour party | surpassed liberal party in britian |
| Irish question | the question faced by british of giving independence to irish |
| Easter rising | revolt against british rule in ireland |
| Irish Republican Army | carried out guerrilla war against british forces and their supporters |
| Ulster | large protestant area in Ireland kept under british rule |
| British Common Wealth of Nations | set up by former colonies of Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa |
| Leon Blum | united several leftist parties in France |
| Popular Front Government | In france; tried to solve labour problems etc. |
| Maginot Line | defensive wall between french and german |
| Red scare | scare of communistm |
| Valvin Coolidge | president of USA; beleve the thee buisness of America is the Buisness of america |
| The New Deal | passed by Franklin D Roosevelt; gov became more directly involved with people's lives; social security |
| Marie Cuire | radio activity |
| Albert Einstein | theory of relativity |
| sigmund freud | psychoanalysis |
| psychoanalysis | method of studing how the mind works and treading mental disorders |
| cubism | broke 3-d objects into fragments and composed them into complex patterns of angles and planes |
| Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque | cubism painters |
| abstract | artwork composed of lines coloros and shapes with no recognizable subject matter at all |
| Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee | abstract painters |
| Dada | revolt against civilization |
| Hans Arp and Max Ernst | Dada painters |
| Surrealism | movement that attempted to portray the workings of the uncoinscious mind |
| Salvador Dali | surrealism painter |
| Bauhaus School | designing homes using materials and forms that fit the enviornment |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | reflected Bauhaus style |
| Enrich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| T.S. Elliot | The Waste Land |
| Ernest Hemmingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| stream of consciousness [s,C] | literary technique that probes a character's random thoughts and feelings |
| Virgina Wolf | Mrs. Dalloway [s.C] |
| James Joyce | Finnegans Wake [s.C] |
| Charlie Chaplin | international movie star because of technology |
| Jazz/ Jazz age | pioneeered by African american music; combined western harmonies with African rhythm |
| Louis Armstrong | Jazz trumpeter |
| flapper | releivious Jazz age youth women |
| Miriam Furguson | texas govermor |
| Lady Nancy Astor | first woman to serve in british parliment |
| Benito Mussolini | son of socialist blacksmith |
| fasces | latin name for a bundle of sticks wraped around an ax; symbol of authority |
| combat squads | musolini supporters; black shirts; broke up socialist ralliess |
| March on Rome | Fascist; march to demand that the government make changes |
| King Victor Emmanuel III | king before mussollini |
| Il Duce | title taken by Musolini; means The leader |
| corporate state | government controlled industrty agriculture and trade |
| fascism | social darwinism; antidemocratic; authoritian government that is not ocmmunist |
| roman lake | nick name for medetteranian sea |
| chancellor | prime minister |
| Rurh valley | taken over b y france when the germans could not pay reparations |
| Adolt Hitler | ---- |
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