Final Flashcards
Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)
Who/What: first president of the republic of turkey (also the founder of the republic of turkey); after the treaties the allies set up post WWI, he revolted against the government they had set up, overthrew it, and set up his own government with nationalists in charge
When: 1920’s
Where: Turkey
Historical Significance: Nationalists set up their own country
Princess Ka’iulani
Who/What: princess of hawaii when US was trying to decide if they were going to annex it or not; spoke out against annexation sovereign
When: 1890s (Annexation: 1898)
Where: Hawai’i and Washington D.C. (?)
Historical Significance: met with Grover Cleveland and spoke out against imperialism by the United States.
Sun Yatsen
Who/What: prominent nationalist leader in China; leader of Nationalist People’s Party or Guomindang. Accepted Soviet aid
When: 1923-1926
Where:China
Historical Significance: Soviets gave China the basis of their new political system
Theodor Herzl
Who/What: one the founders of Zionism. Wrote “The Jew State”: Jews need a homeland in Jerusalem; organized first meeting of the Zionist Congress in Switzerland (1897)
Where: Austria, Switzerland
When: 1896
Historical Significance: started the modern Zionist movement; eventually this Zionist
movement was one of the sparks that set off the Palestine/Israel conflict
Milunka Savic
(Google)
Who/What: serbian war heroine who fought in WWI and in Balkans. Very decorated soldier, went in place of her brother.
Where: Serbia
When: early 1900’s, 1892-1973
Historical Significance: might be the most decorated female combatant in warfare
history, she was a woman and women weren’t supposed to fight
May 4th Movement, 1919 (China)
Who/What: nation wide uprising in China (but especially in urban areas and among students) about the unfair terms of the treaty of Versailles (giving Japan more influence over China).
When: May 4th, 1919
Where: Beijing
Historical Significance: leaders pledged to remove imperialism from China and
nationalism became much more common. Also allowed for communist ideas to be considered as an alternative to imperialism
Josip Broz Tito
Who/What: communist leader of Yugoslavia, seen as a benevolent dictator When: 1945-1980
Where: Yugoslavia
Historical Significance: first communist leader to defy soviet hegemony
Carmen Miranda
Who/What: portuguese Brazilian dancer, singer, and hollywood actress. Famous for her signature fruit headdress she wore in her American Films
When: 1940’s
Where: Hollywood
Historical Significance: helped bridge the gap between America and Brazil; the Good
Neighbor Policy (trying to be less imperialistic to the latin american nations) shown by hollywood’s acceptance of a latin american actress
Jacobo Arbenz
Who/What: Becomes President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1950 When: 1950
Where: Guatemala
Historical Significance: He starts making radical reforms and puts Guatemalan Communism in power. This supports the idea that communism is rising up in our own “Backyard”. The US at this time sees things as if the whole world is becoming communist. The US organizes a rebellion to overthrow him.
African Americans in WWI
Who/What: 370,000 joined military during war, but didn’t see any major social reforms concerning their status as second-class citizens because of their skin color
When: 1914-1919
Where: America
Historical Significance: called into question the purpose of the war: if US got involved to
bring peace and democracy to world, shouldn’t they start at home with their own citizens?; gives African Americans more organization to combat racism in the future.
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Who/What: Mao Zedong tried to mobilize chinese and bring back revolutionary spirit by encouraging rooting out foreign, bourgeois, or anti communist values in China. Elite major target of this “cleansing”
When: 1966-1976
Where: China
Historical Significance: cost China years of stability and its educational system (because
all the people who were out rooting up anti-China sentiment were young)
Kwame Nkumah
Who/What: leader of Ghana’s movement for independence from the British. Jailed several times for his actions; became spokesperson for Pan-African unity
When: 1957
Where: Ghana
Historical Significance: achieved independence peacefully; the success of the
independence signaled the end of England’s empire in Africa (first African country to do so)
Berlin Wall
Who/What: Wall built by the gov of East Germany; separated East and West Berlin When: 1961-1989
Where: Berlin
Historical Significance: Divided people of Berlin and they had little contact with each
other. It was demoralizing and showed how much division and tension there was during the cold war; showed how little legitimacy the regime had among its own people (had to build a wall to keep them in)
Ho Chi Minh
Who/What: Vietnamese communist leader who took power after WWII, fought off the French when they tried to reclaim their imperial rule after the war
When: 1940’s-1950’s
Where: Vietnam
Historical Significance: ruled north vietnam during the vietnam war. His communist ties
are what motivated the US to divide vietnam into two parts in the first place
Truman Doctrine
Who/What: “ I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures.” When: 1947
Where: USA
Historical Significance: He is saying that we (United States) will protect free people from armed minorities (like communists in Greece) and communist threats. Supposedly gave the US right to interfere in the affairs of other countries.
