| A | B |
|---|
| nationalization | government takeover in Mexico in 1917 |
| Porfirio Diaz | Mexican dictator who ruled for almost 35 years until his resignation in 1911 |
| Zapatistas | Followers of an Indian peasant who revolted for the peasant's cause in Souther Mexico |
| Good Neighbor Policy | U.S. policy under Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s abandoning military intervention in Latin America |
| soldaderas | women soldiers in Mexico |
| Venustiano Carranza | the conservative, new president of Mexico in 1917 |
| apartheid | forced racial segregation in South Africa |
| "Women's War" | When the women of Nigeria revolted against the British who were taking away their rights |
| Negritude | an expression of pride in one's African roots |
| Leopold Senghor | first president of Senegal |
| Ataturk | a Turkish nationalist who overthrew the sultan and ruled Turkey from 1923-1938 |
| Reza Khan | an Iranian army officer who overthrew the shah in 1925 and set up his own dynasty |
| Pan-Arabism | emphasized the common history and language of the varied Arab civilizations |
| Balfour Declaration | Britain's declaration in support of a national state for the Jews in the Middle East |
| civil disobedience | the quiet refusal to obey unjust laws |
| Amritsar | a city in northern India where Britain's rule against public meetings was enforced by slaying hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children |
| Salt March | Gandhi led a group to the sea to get their own salt, in protest to Britain's unfair rules that all salt must be purchased from them |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | a Muslim Indian leader who worked for a separate Muslim state called Pakistan |
| Mohandas Gandhi | used nonviolent or passive resistance to fight India's unequal treatment of its citizens |
| Yuan Shikai | a powerful general who took over leadership of China in 1912 |
| Twenty-one demands | requirements Japan put on China in 1915 |
| May Fourth Movement | student uprising in 1919 against Japanese demands |
| Guomindang | the Nationalist government under Sun Yixian |
| Jiang Jieshi | took over the Nationalist party leadership after Sun's death in 1925 and captured Beijing, killing Communists along the way |
| Mao Zedong | led the Communists back to victory over Jieshi in China |
| Long March | the long march in 1934 of Mao and his followers who retreated before Jieshi |
| Rape of Nanjing | killing and brutality by the Japanese as they took over the former Nationalist capital |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor from 1926-1989 |
| Manzhouguo | the Japanese puppet state set up when they invaded Manchuria |
