Chapter 23 Flashcards
GUM
State department stores in Russia
Cubist movement
20th century art style; best represented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes
Fascism
Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction
Syndicalism
Economic and political system based on the organization of labor; imported in Latin America from European political movements; militant force in Latin American politics
Porfirio Diaz
One of Benito Juarez’s generals; elected president of Mexico in 1876; dominated Mexican politics for 35 years; imposed strong central government.
Francisco Madero
Moderate democratic reformer in MExico; proposed moderate reofrms in 1910; arrested Porfirio Diaz; initiated revolution against Diaz when released from prison; temporarily gained power, but was removed and assassinated in 1913
Pancho Villa
Mexican revolutionary and military commander in Northern Mexico during Mexican Revolution; succeeded akong with Amiliano Zapata in revomving Diaz from power in 1911; also participated in campaings that removed Madero and Huerta
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican revolutionary and military commander of peasant guerrilla movement after 1910 centered in Morelos; succeeded along with Pancho Villa in removing Diaz from power; also participated in campaigns that removed Madero and Huerta; demanding sweeping land reform
Victoriano Huerta
Attempted to reestablish centralized dictatorship in Mexico following the removal of Madero in 1913; forced from power in 1914 by Villa and Zapata
Alvaro Obregon
Emerged as leader of the Mexican government in 1915l elected president in 1920
Mexican Constitution of 1917
Promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the fights of workers, and placed restrictions on clerical education; marked formal end of Mexican Revolution
Diego Rivera
Mexican artist of the period after Mexican Revolution; famous for murals painted on walls of public buildings; mixed romantic images of the American Indian Past with Christian symbols and Marxist ideology
Jose Clemtente Orozco
Mexican muralist of the period after the Mexican Revolution; like Revera’s his ork featured romantic images of the American Indian past mixed with Christian symbols and Marxist ideology
Paty of Institutionalized Revolution
Developed slowly during 1920s and 1930s into dominant force of Mexican politics - labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors that were flexible enough to incorporate new interest groups
Red Army
Military organizaiton constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin; made use of people of humble background
New Economic Policy
Initiated by Lenin in 1921; state continued to set basic economic policies, but efforts were now combined with individual initiative; policy allowed food production to recover
Supreme Soviet
Parliament of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; elected by universal suffrage; actually controlled by Communist Party; served to ratify party decisions
Joseph Stalin
Successor to Lenin as head of USSR; strongly nationalist view of communism; represented anti-Western strain of Russian tradition; crushed opposition to his rule; established series of five-year plans to replace New economic policy; fostered agricultural collectivization; led USSR through WWII; furthered Cold War with Western Europe and the US; died in 1953
Collectivization
Creation of large, state-run farms father than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants, although often lowered food production; part of Stalin’s economic and political planning; often adopted in other communist regimes
Yuan Shikai
Warlord in Northern China after fall of Qing dynasty; hoped to seize imperial throne; president of China after 1912; resigned in the face of Japanese invasion in 1916
May Fourth Movement
Resistance to Japanese encroachments in China began on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism
Li Dazhao
Chinese intellectual who gave serious attention to Marxist philosophy; heading study circle at the University of Beijing; contrast to Lenin saw peasants as vanguard of revolutionary communism in China
Mao Zendong
Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958
Guomindang
Chinese Nationalist Party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; drew support from local warlords and Chinese criminal underworld; initially forged alliance with Communists in 1924; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925
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