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Exam 4 Flashcards

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a commission created by the League of Nations to oversee the developed nations’ fulfillment of their international responsibility toward their mandates

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Permanent Mandates Commission

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the 1916 secret agreement between Britain and France that divided up the Arab lands of Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq

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Sykes-Picot Agreement

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a 1917 statement by British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour that supported the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

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Balfour Declaration

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4
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the 1923 treaty that ended the Turkish war and recognized the territorial integrity of a truly independent Turkey

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Treaty of Lausanne

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the national assembly established by the despotic shah of Iran in 1906

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Majlis

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a Jewish collective farm on which each member shared equally in the work, rewards, and defense

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kibbutz

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a 1916 alliance between the Hindus leading the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League

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Lucknow Pact

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loosely translated as “soul force,” which Gandhi believed was the means of striving for truth and social justice through love, suffering, and conversion of the oppressor

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satyagraha

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a Chinese nationalist movement against foreign imperialists; it began as a student protest against the decision of the Paris Peace Conference to leave the Shandong Peninsula in the hands of Japan

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May Fourth Movement

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an intellectual revolution, sometimes called the Chinese Renaissance, that attacked traditional Chinese, particularly Confucian, culture and promoted Western ideas of science, democracy, and individualism, from around 1916 to 1923

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New Culture Movement

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11
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giant conglomerate firms in Japan

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zaibatsu

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the 6,000-mile retreat of the Chinese Communist army to a remote region on the northwestern border of China, during which tens of thousands lost their lives

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Long March

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the global re-circulation by international banks of profits from the higher price of oil

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petrodollars

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a return to policies intended to promote free markets and the free circulation of capital across national borders

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neoliberalism

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15
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policies restricting public spending, lowering import barriers, privatizing state enterprises, and deregulating markets

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Washington Consensus

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16
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a prolonged campaign of civil disobedience by Palestinian youth against Israeli soldiers

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intifada

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17
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Arabic word means “shaking off”

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intifada

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a government headed by a council of commanders of the branches of the armed forces

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junta

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the system of racial segregation and discrimination that was supported by the Afrikaner government in South Africa

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apartheid

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the main black nationalist organization in South Africa, led by Nelson Mandela

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African National Congress (ANC)

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the site of a Chinese student revolt in 1989 at which Communists imposed martial law and arrested, injured, or killed hundreds of students

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Tiananmen Square

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a nickname from the 1980s used to describe the intricate relationship of Japan’s business world and government

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“Japan, Inc.”

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the progressive relaxation of Cold War tensions

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detente

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economic restructuring and reform implemented by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that permitted an easing of government price controls on some goods, more independence for state enterprises, and the establishment of profit-seeking private cooperatives to provide personal services for customers

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perestroika

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Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s popular campaign for openness in the government and the media

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glasnost

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led by Lech Walesa, a free and democratic Polish trade union that worked for the rights of workers and political reform

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Solidarity

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an economic and political alliance of twelve European nations formed in 1993 that has since grown to include 23 European nations

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European Unions (EU)

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people who sought black solidarity and envisioned a vast self-governing union of all African peoples

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Pan-Africanists

29
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mass protests in the 1930s by Gold Coast producers of cocoa who refused to sell their beans to British firms and instead sold them directly to European and American chocolate manufacturers

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cocoa holdups

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the predominantly Catholic French population in the French colony of Algeria, called “black feet” because they wore black shoes instead of sandals

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pieds-noirs

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the victorious anticolonial movement in Algeria

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National Liberation Front

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a systematic effort by Latin American nationalists to end neocolonialism and to free their national economies from American and western European influences

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economic nationalism

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politicians who appealed to the working class and poor with appeals to nationalism and to social justice

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populists

34
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the liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union, led by reformer Nikita Khruschev during his years as the head of the Soviet Union (1953-1964)

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de-Stalinization

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the European Economic Community created in 1957

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Common Market

36
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the 1964 U.S. act that prohibited discrimination in public services and on the job

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Civil Rights Act

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a philosophy whose principal ideas were equality and liberty; liberals demanded representative government and equality before the law as well as such individual freedoms as freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom from arbitrary arrest

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liberalism

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the small number of individuals and families that monopolized political power and economic resources

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oligarchs

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the region encompassing the Antilles islands as well as the lands that bound the Caribbean Sea in Central America and northern South America

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Circum-Caribbean

40
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government by charismatic figures who rule through personal power rather than the functioning of public institutions

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caudillismo

41
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the belief that God had foreordained the United States to cover the entire continent

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manifest destiny

42
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the 1848 treaty between the United States and Mexico in which Mexico ceded large tracts of land to the United States

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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an 1856 Mexican law that barred corporate landholdings

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Lerdo Law

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the re-establishment of political and economic influence over regions after they have ceased to be formal colonies

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neocolonialism

45
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a gradual form of abolition through which children born to slaves gained their freedom

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free womb laws

46
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the regime of Porfirio Diaz, who presided in Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1911

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Porfiriato

47
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large landed estates

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latifundios

48
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a radical ideology that proposed the revolutionary reorganization of society into an egalitarian community ruled by labor unions

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anarcho-syndicalism

49
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established a U.S. sphere of influence over the Americas by opposing European imperialism on the continent

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Monroe Doctrine

50
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a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stating that the United States would “correct” what it saw as wrongdoing in neighboring countries

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Roosevelt Corollary

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