Ch. 10.2 Nationalism in Africa and Asia Flashcards

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Pan-Africanism

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movement advocating unity of all Africans; supported by DuBois and Garvey

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Mahatma

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“Great Soul”; Indians referred to Gandhi with this

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civil disobedience

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refusal to obey laws considered to be unjust; Gandhi did this to protest British laws

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zaibatsu

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large financial and industrial corporation; in Japan manufacturing processes were concentrated into a single enterprise

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W. E. B. DuBois

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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

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Marcus Garvey

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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

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Mohandas Gandhi

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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

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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1930s: new face; studied law in GB and was upper-class and intellectual (new kind of politician); secular, Western, modern

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Ho Chi Minh

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Moscow-trained revolutionary in 1920s; organized Vietnamese Communists in French Indochina

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Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria

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began newspaper {The West African Pilot} in 1937 and urged to use nonviolence as means to gain independence;

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INC

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Indian National Congress; founded 1885; seek reforms in British-ruled Indian gov’t; new leader Motilal Nehru wanted full independence

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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1930s: head of Muslim League; want separation of Hindus and Muslims (because of constant conflict); creation of separate Muslim state of Pakistan

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Pakistan

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“land of the pure”; northwest, separate Muslim state to avoid constant religious conflict with Hindus; led by Jinnah

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militarism

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occurred because of rise in militant nationalists; more army officers take higher positions

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Manchuria

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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

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communism

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sprouted from Marxism; spread through organizations like Comintern; appealing to other countries, because it looked like it worked in USSR