Post WW1 Flashcards

pages 25-48 (mostly short answers)

1
Q

Temple at Amritsar

Temple at Amritsar

April 3, 1919

A

Site of a large peaceful gathering

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2
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Temple at Amritsar

what happened at Temple at Amritsar

April 3, 1919

A

orders from the british had banned public meetings. The announcement was either ignored or not heard.

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3
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Temple at Amritsar

What was the RESULT of the temple at amristar situation?

A

General Dyer had 50 soldiers open fire to clear the field

and killed 379 people and wounded 1,100.

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4
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
(1869-1948)

–Mahatma

A

(Great Soul)

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5
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worked as a lawyer in South Africa and experienced racism first hand

A

Mahatma

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6
Q

Mahatma Embraced…

A

the Hindu tradition of Ahimsa

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7
Q

Mahatma adopts the idea of

A

nonviolent

(passive) resistance.

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8
Q

Mahatma –Admires the Western thinkers

like Henry David Thoreau and

idea of

A

Civil Disobedience

refusal to obey an unjust law.

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9
Q

Gandhi and the Salt March

Britain held a

A

monopoly on salt

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10
Q

Gandhi and the Salt March

The march ends when

A

when he picks up
salt and declares he is shaking the foundations of
the British Empire

The march ends on April 6, 1930

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11
Q

Gandhi and the Salt March

who marched to the city of dandi ?

A

Gandhi and 78 followers marched 240 miles to the
city of Dandi.

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12
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Fascism in Italy

Fasces— a

A

bundle of sticks with
an ax wrapped around it. It was
a symbol of ancient Rome.

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13
Q

Fascism in Italy

How does it work?

A

It is any authoritarian government that
is not communist.

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14
Q

Fascism in Italy

As an economic system, fascism is

A

SOCIALISM with a
capitalist veneer.

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15
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What are the characteristics of fascism?

A

-Discipline and loyalty

-Individual to serve the state

-The state is absolute

-Rooted in extreme nationalism

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16
Q

Fascism in Italy

Why did it surface?
(started by..)

A

It was started by Benito Mussolini and unemployed
former soldiers

17
Q

Fascism in Italy

Who followed Fascist ideas/thinking?

A

Business leaders, wealthy landowners

and lower middle class.

18
Q

Fascism in Italy

Why was Fascism so popular?

A

It revived national pride and offered a

stable government.

19
Q

Fascism in Italy

The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual
who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the
Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts
men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for
them the duties they have to fulfill. (p. 280)

this is..

A

Mussolini
distinguished fascism from liberal capitalism in his
1928 autobiography:

20
Q

The Rise of Nazism in Germany

A

Treaty of Versailles

Economy

Philosophy

Propaganda