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End Of Empires Flashcards

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India National Congress

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An organization consisting of many prominent Hindus and Muslims, which first tried to collaborate with the British in order to get self rule. After the WWI, they opposed the British

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Muslim League

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Established with encouragement by the British government, worked towards Indian independence

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Mohandas Ghandi

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Prominent Hindu leader, who believed in nonviolent resistance

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Satyagraha

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Principles of passive resistance

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India Act

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Gave India the institutions of a self governing state. The act was unsuccessful because of the divide between Hindus and Muslims

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Head of the Muslim League. Warned that a unified India would be a threat to Muslims. Proposed the idea of having separate Hindu and Muslim states

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Partition

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Divided India in a Hindu and Muslim state

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Pakistan

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Muslim state

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Salt March

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Act of civil disobedience lead by Gandhi to protest British rule

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The Republic

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After the fall of the Qing empire, a republic was installed in 1912. The republic was not a stable government

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Sun Yatsen

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Prominent nationalist leader. Did not like the aspect of dictatorship under communism. Wanted to bring all of China under the national people’s party.

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Chinese Communist Party

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Thought a social revolution would help China’s problems

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Mao Zedong

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Early member of the CCP. Thought social revolution would help China.

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Nationalist People’s Party/Guomindang

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Sun Yatsen’s Party which he wanted to bring all of China under

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Leader of the NPP after Yatsen’s death. Eventually turned against communist allies

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Long March

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The Red Army’s Journey to the a remote province in northern China. The March inspired many people to join communism. Mao Zedong emerged as a leader in the March

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Five Year Plan

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Designed to speed up economic development. Social reforms also resulted from the plan

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Great Leap Forward

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Way to overtake the industrial production of more developed nations. The plan was not successful

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Cultural Revolution

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Mao’s attempt to give revolutionary spirit to the people. People who differed in views became targets to death and persecution

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Deng Xiaoping

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China’s recovery after Mao’s death

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Tiananmen Square

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Protest lead by students against the cultural revolution

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Apartheid

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Segregation of whites and blacks in South Africa, giving whites racial supremacy

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Afrikaner National Party

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Dedicated to preventing black independence. Created a system of segregation, the apartheid

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African National Congress

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Minority group who wanted to resist white rule and inspired direct actions against the apartheid

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Nelson Mandela

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Leader of the ANC

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Freedom Charter

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Published by the ANC and outlined the ideal multiracial rule for South Africa

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Sharpeville Massacre

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As a response to the protests by blacks, police shot and killed many black demonstrators in Sharpeville

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F.W. de Klerk

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President of a South Africa whose party began to dismantle the apartheid. Released Mandela from jail, legalized the ANC and worked with Mandela to end white rule

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Steve Biko

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Anti-apartheid activist

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Aimed to restore South Africa after the apartheid by having blacks and whites speak their truths and forgive one another

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Restorative Justice

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Brings victims and oppressors together and identifies the harm that has been afflicted in attempt to prevent similar events from happening

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Retributive Justice

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Aims to give an appropriate punishment to the oppressor

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