Ch. 10.2 Nationalism in Africa and Asia Flashcards
Pan-Africanism
movement advocating unity of all Africans; supported by DuBois and Garvey
Mahatma
“Great Soul”; Indians referred to Gandhi with this
civil disobedience
refusal to obey laws considered to be unjust; Gandhi did this to protest British laws
zaibatsu
large financial and industrial corporation; in Japan manufacturing processes were concentrated into a single enterprise
W. E. B. DuBois
early 1900s; African American educated at Harvard; led movement for civil/political equality; believed in Pan-Africanism; created Pan-African Congress held in 1919 Paris; later live in Ghana
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican; lived in Harlem in NYCity; urge black Americans to return to Africa; support Pan-Africanism; 1920 {Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World} impacted African leaders
Mohandas Gandhi
active in movement for Indian self-rule before and after WWI; Mahatma; left South Africa (1914); organized mass protests; believed in nonviolence; (1919) British responded with violence; arrested for leading protests; led Salt March (1930) to protest British salt tax—>arrested; religious, Indian, traditional
Jawaharlal Nehru
1930s: new face; studied law in GB and was upper-class and intellectual (new kind of politician); secular, Western, modern
Ho Chi Minh
Moscow-trained revolutionary in 1920s; organized Vietnamese Communists in French Indochina
Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria
began newspaper {The West African Pilot} in 1937 and urged to use nonviolence as means to gain independence;
INC
Indian National Congress; founded 1885; seek reforms in British-ruled Indian gov’t; new leader Motilal Nehru wanted full independence
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1930s: head of Muslim League; want separation of Hindus and Muslims (because of constant conflict); creation of separate Muslim state of Pakistan
Pakistan
“land of the pure”; northwest, separate Muslim state to avoid constant religious conflict with Hindus; led by Jinnah
militarism
occurred because of rise in militant nationalists; more army officers take higher positions
Manchuria
southern part allowed to be controlled by Japanese (decided in American conference); northern province of China; fall 1931: group of middle-level army officers invaded Manchuria, soon fully conquered; gov’t opposed this but people supported