IDs Flashcards
Ghadar Movement
- originally called the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association (later renamed the Ghadar Movement)
- founded in San Francisco
- fought for Indian Independence from G.B.
- founded in in “communist” and nationalist ideals (communism at the time meant anti-colonial)
Ghadar Movement (Significance)
- Transnational Political Activism (founded within the United States and then moved in to India)
- took advantage of the US freedoms of speech, assembly and press to grow their movement
- Ghadar means “mutiny” or “revolution”
Taraknath Das
- founding member of the Pacific Coast Hindustani Association (the Ghadar Party)
Taraknath Das (Significance)
- Established the Free Hindustan newspaper (Hindustan Ghadar)
- the paper was written with Anti-Colonialism viewpoints
- newspaper allowed for people to realize they weren’t alone in their feelings an was a way to assemble together to create change (think Facebook organizing protests)
- never wrote down the names of subscribers or their addresses (remembered everything to protect the identities of those getting the paper)
cold war democracy
Soviet propaganda focused on racism in the US to discredit American Democracy
- the US set forth to restore their credibility abroad
- combatting racism became connected to the fight against communism (like Brown v. Board of Education case)
cold war democracy (Significance)
- securing democracy superiority over Soviet Communism entailed regulating beliefs within the US
- led to McCarthyism and persecution of leftists and communists in the US
- led to the 1952 McCarran Walter Act (permitted immigration from the Asian Pacific Triangle, granted naturalization to all Asians, special entry status to GI wives, harsh measures to limit subversive activities)
Vietnamization of the War
Nixon Doctrine;
- withdrawal of American troops and transition to a war fought by the Vietnamese (US would provide economic aid)
Vietnamization of the War (Significance)
- US openly admits that the war was fought almost entirely by US soldiers and pull out due to unpopularity within the US
- eventual transition to covert ops (US train Vietnamese and increase activities like bombing in Laos and Cambodia and “Secret Wars”
Korean Independence Movement
- attempting to remove themselves from Japanese Colonialism
- done by various groups of Korean Nationalists who came together
- after Japanese crackdown against nationalist protests, Korean Nationalists fled to China and US
Korean Independence Movement (Significance)
- staged within the United States (transnational political activism; while laboring and fighting for equal rights within the US they were also fighting for a free Korea)
- the various groups lead to inner conflict over what a “Free Korea” might look like (Communist vs. US Style Democracy?; laid the groundwork for future conflict that would erupt during the Korean War)
refugee
Social: “unlike immigrants” (recognizes the lack of choice to come, lack of preparedness, that their destination was unknown, and implied a traumatic journey)
Legal: US open to any refugees “fleeing communism” (UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees clarifies that if they don’t leave their country they will die)
refugee (Significance)
- US recognizes refugees as their political responsibility by creating a special type of immigrant regulated by government provisions
- EX. Southeast Asians (first mass group to be recognized)
- Structure of Refuge (federal program to assist refugees; unlike most immigrants refugees are eligible for govt. assistance like supplemental social security, food stamps, etc)
proxy wars
“Stand-In” (the conflict between two states where fighting occurs derivatively)
ex.) the US fought the Soviet Union through war against the northern peninsula of Korea
proxy wars (Significance)
- war becomes marked by confusion (who’s liberty are we protecting / why are we fighting)
- revealed competing definitions of communism (anti-colonist vs anti soviet expansion)
the latehomecomer
the Grandmother in Kao Kalia Yang’s novel of the same name
