APWH Flashcards
List one major failure and one major success of the Chinese Revolution
Great Leap forward; Cultural Revolution
What model did the Chinese Communists use when choosing a path for economic development?
Stalin’s Five Year Plans and Collectivization
What social and economic problem did the Chinese communists offer to the peasantry?
Land reform
Who is generally considered the ‘father’ of Chinese nationalism?
Sun Yat-sen
What was the major difference between Marxism as proposed by Marx and the Marxism that was outlined by Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong?
The peasants were to create a revolutionary class
What was the name of the movement formed by students and nationalist politicians who joined together to form a liberal democratic government in china following the end of World War 1?
May Fourth Movement
Who was the white Afrikaner South Africa president who pushed for a dismantling of apartheid and freed Nelson Mandela from prison?
F. W. De Klerk
What was the name of the regions within South Africa that were set aside for main ‘tributes’ of black South Africans?
Homelands
Which Middle Eastern state is as an example of one that rejected Western culture in the name of religious revivalism?
Iran
What group overthrew the Egyptian government in 1952 and who became the new leader of Egypt?
Free Officers/Nasser
What political movement was formed by Hasan Al Banna in 1928?
Muslim Brotherhood
Name two post colonial governments where authoritarian military governments have earned a reputation for brutality and gross violations of human rights?
Uganda, Myanmar, Zaire, Rwanda, North Korea
What is one of the patterns of post colonial governments that is best exemplified by Kwame Nkrumah?
Charismatic rulers and Authoritarianism
What characteristics do the economies of post colonial society have?
Exporters of primary products that have declined in price
Peter Stearns lists Corazon aquino, Indira Ghandi, and Benazir Bhutto as examples of women who have served as national leaders in the post colonial era. What point does he make about all of these women that relates to the status of women in general in post colonial societies?
They all owned their political success to family connections to powerful male leaders in their countries
List two social trends in the post colonial world that have made economic development and political stability more difficult?
Rising population, urbanization
Which major power administered the state of Palestine units its partition in 1948?
Great Britiain
What was the term given to the rigid racial segregation practiced in South Africa after 1948?
Apartheid
What was the dominant pattern of decolonization in settler colonies in Asia and Africa following WW2? List examples.
Repression and guerilla war: Kenya, Algeria, Southern Rhodesia
what was the dominant pattern of decolonization in tropical dependencies in asia and Africa following WWII? List examples peacful withdrawal by stages;
India, Ghana, Gold Coast, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo
What African country became the first independent black african state in 1957 and who was its leader?
Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah
Who became the leader of the Muslim League in India during WWII?
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
What was the name of the nationalist political party that formed in Egypt?
Wafd Party
What was the name of the literary movement among French-African intellectuals that celebrated the virtues of African physical and cultural history?
Negritude
List two African American political figures who had a powerful impact on emerging nationalist leaders and ‘pan-Africanism’ in the interwar years?
Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois
what was the general pattern of the events between European powers and their colonies during and immediately following WWI?
They usually promised them independence and great control over their affairs, but when the time came, they did not follow through. protest by indigenous elites and mass protest tool place in many colonies.
Who was the Jewish French officer who was falsely accused of a crime and whose trial became synonymous with anti-Semitism in western Europe?
Dreyfus
What was the name of the political party formed by muslims in 1906?
Muslim League
what was the term for Gandhi’s tactics of non-violence such as peaceful boycotts, strikes, and non-cooperation?
Satyagraha
what group of profession came to dominate the nationalist, anti-colonial movements in india and Egypt respectively?
india-lawyers, Egypt-urban middle class,business and professions
what was the british government in India referred to as?
Raj
What is the name of the political party in Indian that led Indians to independence and has governed through most of the postcolonial era?
Indian National Congress Party
What have been the major demographic trends in Latin America over the past 40 years?
Population increase; migration especially urbanization
What was the foreign policy that guided the US in its relations with Latin America following World War II?
Containment of communism
What was the name of the policy instituted by Franklin Roosevelt that promised to end military intervention and deal more fairly with Latin America?
Good Neighbor policy
What was the term given to conservative governments, often dictatorships in Latin America that were dependent upon friendly to the US?
Banana republics
In which central american country did a successful socialist revolution take place in the 1980s?
Nicaragua
What was the political trend in terms of types of government in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s?
Military dictatorships/bureaucratic authoritarianism
what was name of the movement within the Catholic Church to address issues of social justice in Latin America?
Liberation theology
Who was the militant Argentine revolutionary who fought withe Fidel Castro?
Che Guevara
Who was the authoritarian leader that Castro overthrew?
Fulgenico Batista
What was Cuba’s main export crop?
Sugar
Which Central American country’s elected government was overthrown in the 1950’s by a CIA lead “anti-communist” operation?
Guatemala
What was the American corporation that dominated the economy and politics of several Central American countries including Guatemala?
United Fruit Company
Who were the two famous revolutionaries of the Mexican Revolution?
Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata
What was the name of the resistance movement that arose in the heavily Indian state of chiapas in the 1990s?
Zapatistas
