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Ch. 14-15 review
chapter 14 and 15
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History
10th Grade
03/09/2008

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What was the political  party that ruled india
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Hindu Indian National Congress
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What were the Rowlatt Acts
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a list of terms created by the British government stating that they could imprison any Indian protester without cause or trial for two years
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Amritsar Massacre
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When thousands of Indian protesters when to amritsar to protest the acts.  The  British government then gave the order to fire upon the crowd, killing hundreds and wounding thousands
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noncooperation
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a policy started by Gandhi stating that since the British did nothing tho punish the officers responsible for the massacres, he urged the Indian government to be noncooperative with the British government
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Salt March 
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a protest organized by Gandhi to the nearest sea. Here they protested the hated taxes on salt by the British government. They also ended up making their own salt from evaporated sea water
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Government of India Act
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Act passed by the british government, granting India their own partial government, and also limited democratic elections
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What did Mustrafa Kemal do?
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led turkey to their independence and helped pass several reforms such as separating islam laws from national laws, abolished religious courts, and created a law system based on european ideals, granted women the right to vote
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Persian leader who looked to modernize Persia. did so effectively, and renamed the country to Iran
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Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud
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What was the Kuomintang? 
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the chinese group pushing for the modernization of China (Nationalist Party)
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Sun Yixian
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the first chinese leader who attempted to overthrow the last emperor of china, succeeded. And that ended the Qing Dynasty
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What were the Three Principles of the People
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Nationalism, to end foriegn control

Peoples rights, democracy

People's Livelihood- economic security for all chinese 

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Who did Sun turn the Presidency over to 
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Powerful general Yuan Shikaki, who then betrayed the Democratic ideals set in place by Yixian
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May Fourth Movement
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this  was a protest about the fact that the Japanese gained much land from the treaty of versailles. Land that chinese people felt was theirs, Workers, shopkeepers, and proffesionals all joined the cause.
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 What were Mao Zedong's plan to lead china to communism

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He felt the revolution needed to start with the peasants then work its way up with government officials
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What is Jiang Jieshi also known as?
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Chiang Kai-Shek, ended up heading the Kuomintang
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What was the Long March
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Jiang's army of 60000 surrounded the communist party leaders faced defeat. communist leaders fled, and they began a hazardous 6000 mile long journey called the long march
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What Country actually started World War I
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Austria-Hungary
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At what port did the Japanese sneak attack the Russians
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Port Arthur
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In what country did nationalists overthrow their Sultan and start a modernization programs
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Turkey
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The march revolution began in the city of?
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Petrograd
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This event was the first to show the people of Russia that the czar was not god like
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Russo-Japanese war
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The father of Russian Socialism
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Plekahnov
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Councils that Represented Workers and soldiers
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Soviets
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Red secret police  that terrorized people
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Cheka
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Pro-Czarists during the Russian Revolution and civil war were known as
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Whites
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An underlying cause for the U.S entering the war theat proposed Mexico ally itself with Germany
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Zimmerman Note
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What country will become the major economic superpower
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United States
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The protests in China after they heard about the results of the Treaty of Versailles were known as the
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May Fourth Movement
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The term given to when Stalin killed many members of his own Communist party
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Great Purge
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By 1900 the last true autocracy in Europe was?
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Russia
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England Declared war on germany because they invaded this country
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Belgium
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Massacred 1000's of Communists in Shanghai
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Kaishek
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Who was the actual assasin of Archduke Ferdinand
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Gavrillo Princep
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What country was blamed for world war one though they did not start it?
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Germany

 

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Because of corroption the Chinese peasants started to align themselves with the... 
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Communists
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He is famous for protesting against the british
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Gandhi
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The Western Front of World War I was characterized by this
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All Quiet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Germans hated article 231 of this because it made them take responsibility for the war
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Treaty of Versailles
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After WWI Britain ruled Iraq and Palestine as
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Mandates
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He established the Modern state of Iran in 1935
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Pahlavi
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The leader of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
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Trotsky
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WWI was considered tihs because it envolved complete mobilization of people and resources
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Total War
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He became the spokesperson for a new world order basd on democracy and international cooperation
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Woodrow Wilson
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He tried to overthrow Kerensky in 1917
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Kornilov

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The use of this by the Germans is what eventually brought the U.S. into the war
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Unresticted Submarine Warfare
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This treaty allowed Russia to exit the war early
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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This called for the invasion France by Germany through neutral Belgium
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Schlieffen Plan
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This nation saw itself as the protector of the Slavs prior to WWI
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Russia
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He took the People's Liberation Army on the Long March
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Mao Zedong
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Gandhi organized this over British taxes on salt
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The salt march
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He turned the Bolshevik party into one that was violently aimed at revolution
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Lenin
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They conspired to kill the Archduke
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The Black Hand
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What was the origin of the March Revolution
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Food Riots/Strikes
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What is Duma?
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Provisional Russian Government
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Who was the last autocratic czar of Russia?
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Nicholas II
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What crucial battle ruined the Schlieffen plan?
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The first Battle of the Marne
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