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Pan Arabism | nationalist movement that emphasized common history and language that sought to free Arabs from foreign domination |
zionist | a jewish nationalist |
Amistar Massacre | April 13, 1919, 379 Indians were killed, 1100 wounded, fired on by British troops |
May Fourth Movement | 1919, student protests start a cultural and intellectual movement in China. Wanted to end forign domination |
Guomindang | nationalist party of Sun Xixian formed a government in south China in 1921 |
Long March | 1934, Mao led 100,000 communists 6000 miles fleeing Guomindang forces. 20,000 survived. Treated peasants along the way with respect and won the respect of people |
Diet | Japanese Parliament |
Jiang Jieshi | 1925, leader of Guomingdang destroyed power of warlords and reunited China. 1927 slaughtered communist troops and sparked a civil war |
Mao Zedong | Communist revolutionary organized peasants in southeastern China |
Hirohito | Emperor of Japan from 1926-1989 |
nationalization | the government take over of national resources |
economic nationalisn | emphasis on domestic control of the economy |
cultural nationalism | pride in one's own culture |
apartheid | policy of strict racial separation in South Africa |
polygamy | custom of having more than one wife |
ahisma | nonviolence and reverence for all life |
civil disobedience | refusal to obey unjust laws |
dhoti | simple white garmet traditionally worn by village Indians |
African National Congress (ANC) | Political party formed by educated Africans who protested laws restricting black freedom |
Pan Africanism | united front of African colonies, the West Indies, and the US, called for a charter of rights for Africans. Led by American W.E.B. DuBois |
Mustafa Kemel Ataturk | Nationalist who defeated sultan, pushed radical reforms in Turkey to modernize the country. Discarded muslim law and calendar, gave women rights, made people dress like Westerners, banned polygamy |
Mohandes Gandhi | Indian, led people to freedom using nonviolent resistance (Civil disobedience) |
Theodor Herzl | 1897, founded modern Zionist movement. The goal was to rebuild a Jewish State in Palestine |
Reza Khan | 1925, overthrew Shah of Iran, modernized Iran, made it independent. Built factories, RR, built army, new alphabet, replaced Islamic law with secular law |
Sun Yixian | "Father" of Chinese revolution, 1911, nationalist |
ultranationalism | extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations. |