third exam ID definitions Flashcards

Question

Mao Zedong

Answer 1

1893-1976 leader - BIG MAN son of well-off peasants in 1927 communists defeated by guomindang 1927 to early 1940s- communists "underground" communist victory 1949 allowed the cultural revolution to take place eventually stopped this movement due to the breakdown in society in 1968 he died in 1976

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China in 1917 advocated unification Liberal nationalist- dies young leads uprising 1911/1912 (china president) end the qing dynasty "three principles of the People" - nationalism -democracy - people's livelihood

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Chinese nationalist party Chiang Kai-shek -leader of party he defeats warlords; then turns against communist at this time 1920s-1930s they had no strong central power in China

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1958-1960 Moa Zedong economic program in china desire to industrialize china lacks - capital- tech education solution= calls for millions of small-scale factories it was a disaster

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china late 1960s Maoist campaign against "old order" against Intellectuals, history, ancient Chinese art education stops for several years -> chaos this caused a threat of total breakdown Mao calls off the cultural revolution in 1968

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China military commander, revolutionary leader (communist) he was an economic liberalization political status quo pragmatism: get rich-but keep quite 1978-1989

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16th-early 17th centrury "counter reformation" as protestants referred to it had a council placed in Trent to heal breach of reformation DID NOT HEAL but did reform the catholic church also had the Society of Jesus or Jesuits aimed to use education to bring protestant to catholic church

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established by Tokugawa Levasu after civil wars of the Sengoku period military government (1603-1868)

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1644-1911 CHINA Emporor Kanxi (1654-1722) Examenation system (scholar-gentry) DECLINE? internal corruption (cheating the exams...) Bandits, breakdown in public order, population increased 400mill ca.1800

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(1672-1725) reigned from 1682-1725 freakishly tall, intelligent, impatient, NOT well educated Goal: make Russia European Made Russian an European Power, brought European culture and technology to Russia as well as suffering to his people, tax burden, hungry peasants ect.

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april-august 1898 Americans concern over Spanish treatment of Cuba results in independence of Cuba

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"power was lying on the street, we merely stooped to pick it up" demands to end the war during the 1917 revolution he was released and returned to Petrograd he was considered an intellectual, writer, leader of party, Bolshoviks founder of this socialist party before he died he finally realized that Stalin was a threat, 1924

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14th to 20th century "longest" historical ties found in Istabul today Mechnet II "faith" ( 1432-1481) Suleyman "the magnificent" (1520-1566) Osmen-founder 3 main battles- Battle of Kossavo Taking constintople siege of vienna

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vietnamese communist leader he declare the nations independence in 1945 first leader of the nationalist movement (Viet Minh)

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Vietnamese political party formed may 1941 they seeked the Vietnamese independence formed by ho chi minh

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he was an Iranian political and religious leader he was for "Islamic Republic" after the fall of shah he returned in 1979 his ideology was towards the rejection of modern secular state and he believed that the USA= 'Great Satan'

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if the vietnam "goes red" other dominoes will fall this was during the cold war

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fundamentalist islamic government seen in afghanistan came to power after the soviet union occupied Afghanistan this group waged a war in 1979

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Mikhail S grobachev born in 1931 he became general seeecretay of CPSU (communist party of the soviet union) in 1985 spent whole lif in communist party he faced many conservative obstacles

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re-structuring reforming one-party gov+economy not towards multiparty gov or capitalism this was Gorbachevs program Soviet union- mid 1980s

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czeh statesman: ex-dissident last prisident of czech from 1989-92 then president of czech republic until 03

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this was the first non-governmental union in the eastern bloc tried to avoid challenging the gov. directly first sign of the 'begining of the end'-> solidarity in Poland early 1980s ( opposition to communist regime)

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this was a military pact facing NATO set up in 1955 communist states of Europe under Soviet influence

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Palestine liberation organization not religious set up to demand a state Palestine for an arab nation found in 1964

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one remaining super power (USA) china is on the rise cultural: English language, creates new versions of old US artifacts, not only Americans; Korean boy bands plus Kareoke economically: McDonalds, Pepsi, Essos the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide

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the 'logic' of terror- Hitler is a good example this principle was one that led to people being less likely to express anit-government ideals September 11, 2001= state-sponsored terrorism

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spring of 1986 a nuclear power plant melted down in the soviet union Finland had picked up the radiation waves it was found on the border of Beleruse killed many people from both radiation initially & after a while Gorbachev reaction was that nothing was wrong at first. this meltdown caused mass hesteria around Europe they stoped the meltdown by dumping dirt on the top of it this made the appeal of nuclear powerplants decline seriously

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this was a disaster in INDIA chemical plant accident in 1984 killed millions from the spewed poisonous gass

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this was once a large body of water but one that shrunk into a few small ponds because the rivers being diverted into different areas to feed into the cotton plants, Soviet Union went towards located in Central Asia this was a great example of how Soviet Union destroyed the environment shrunk in 1960s

Answer 30

a common currency within the EU (European Union) this was in 1999 Polland has not accepted this currency