7.5 - 7.6 Flashcards
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Self determination
The idea that people of the same ethnicity, language, culture and political ideas should be united and have the right to form an independent nation state
Decolonization
Where the colonial country would give their colonies self-rule / nationalist in Asia and Africa believed they could receive this from the blood they shedded during WWI, thus starting decolonization
Big Three
David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, and Georges Clemenceau
Mandate system
What the League of Nations established to rule the colonies and territories of the central powers
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese nationalist / spoke to Wilson about self determination for Vietnam, but was denied
Pan Arabism
An ideology that called for the unification of all lands in North Africa and the Middle East
Balfour Declaration
Stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe
Palestine
Borders Mediterranean / north of Egypt, west of Trans Jordan
Zionists
Those who supported a Jewish homeland
INC
Indian National Congress / formed to air grievances against the colonial government, became strong voice for independence after WWI
Gandhi
His movements embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience / encouraged Indians to break unjust laws and serve jail time
Amritsar Massacre
Peaceful protest of Indian nationalist for the arrest of two freedom fighters / British has banned these activities leading to the sending armed forces es out killing hundreds
Satyagraha Movement
Led by ghandi / also known as devotion to truth movement/ encouraged Indians to break unjust laws and serve jail time
Civil Disobedience
Where protestors would break harmless laws that were unjust to them
Mahatma
What ghandi became to be known as / the great soul
Salt march
Ghandis first campaign / led thousands of Indians to the Arabian Sea and picked up a few grains of salt, in defiance of Britain’s unjust edict
Ali Jinnah
A member of the Muslim minority in the largely Hindu Indian national congress
Two state solution
To create a seperate state, Pakistan, that would include heavily Muslim parts of South Asia / Hindus would get India
Greater east Asian co-prosperity sphere
Territories Japan expanded to after WWII / Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, Burma, and other pacific islands
Manchukuo
Japanese puppet state / to make it seem like an independent Chinese state it selected the last Chinese emperor to sit on its throne
Chinese Communist party
Led by Mao Zedong / based the communist revolution on the revolt of peasants / inspired by Russia
Long March
A year long, 6,000 miles long retreat after Chiangs forces attacked Maos
Pakistan
Piece of land that would include heavily Muslim western and eastern parts of South Asia
Nehru
Became India’s first prime minister / nervous about splitting religion in Pakistan and India
