Chapter 29 Nationalism in Asia Flashcards
Permanent Mandates Commission
856
A commission created by the League of Nations to oversee the developed nations’ fulfillment of their international responsibility toward their mandates.
Sykes-Picot Agreement
859
The 1916 secret agreement between Britain and France that divided up the Arab lands of Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.
Balfour Declaration
860
A 1917 statement by British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour that supported the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Treaty of Lausanne
862
The 1923 treaty that ended the Turkish War and recognized the territorial integrity of a truly independent Turkey.
Majlis
863
The national assembly established by the despotic shah of Iran in 1906.
Kibbutz
865
A Jewish collective farm on which each member shared equally in the work, rewards, and defense.
Lucknow Pact
866
A 1916 alliance between the Hindus leading the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.
Satyagraha
867
Loosely translated as “soul force,” which Gandhi believed was the means of striving for truth and social justice through love, suffering, and conversion of the oppressor.
May Fourth Movement
870
A Chinese nationalist movement against foreign imperialists; it began as a student protest against the decision of the Paris Peace Conference to leave the Shandong Peninsula in the hands of Japan.
New Culture Movement
870
An intellectual revolution, sometimes called the Chinese Renaissance, that attacked traditional Chinese, particularly Confucian, culture and promoted Western ideas of science, democracy, and individualism, from around 1916 to 1923.
Zaibatsu
876
Giant conglomerate firms in Japan.
Long March
877
The 6,000-mile retreat of the Chinese Communist army to a remote region on the northwestern border of China, during which tens of thousands lost their lives.
