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| Islamic organization founded by Hassan al-Banna in Ismailia, Egypt in 1928. Fought against Egpytians who supported women's rights, secular education, and civil marriage. Forced their views on the population and promoting religious education |
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| Aka Imperial Civil Service from 1858-1947. Included lawyers, judges, beurocrats, and others who were in the elite civil service of hte British empire in British India. Led to India's independence. |
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| Chiang Kai-Shek and Guomindang |
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| Chinese political and military leader associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party. He ruled the Republic of China from 1925 and cemented his position with a huge military victory in 1926 by leading the Northern Expedition. He then went to the Soviet union to learn skills from the Red Army in Modern Warfare. Guomindang means Nationalists People's Party which was founded by Sun Yat-Sen. It believed that national liberalism was China's only hope for independence. Got rid of communists by joining with Soviet Russia. |
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| The idea that the people of Africa should be unified. It was a movement that started in the 1920s by blacks from America and the West Indies to publicize the abuses of colonialism and draw attention to black people's accomplishments. In the 1930s some believed that Africans should seek immediate independence from colonial rule. First Pan-African conference in 1921. Nothing came of it but they didn't use violence |
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| the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland in 1915. The general armenian population faced deportation, and were forced out of their homes, men were executed by turkish troops, police, or local turks and kurds. Women, children, and the old were driven for weeks over mountains and deserts; the ones who were able to reach the Syrian Desert were left to die from heat, starvation, or disease. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 800,000 and 1.5 million. |
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| Creator of Pakistan “land of the pure”. Joined Indian National Congress in 1906. and Muslim League in 1913. Liaison for both groups. Was against Gandhi's campaign. The leader of the Muslim League. He was a non-practicing muslim. He ruined Gandhi's vision for civic nationalism. He wanted a nation-state for Muslims, whom he believed would always be discriminated against by the hindus of India, he got it in the form of Pakistan. It was a very messy and violent transition between the moving of Hindus into India and Muslims into Pakistan. |
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| Trench warfare and 'total war' |
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| Trench warfare is a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. Trench warfare was mainly used during World War I, along 400 mile line that stretched from the english channel through belgium and france to the swiss border, There was a combination of barbed wire, land mines, poison gas, and machine guns.“Total” war is a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. |
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| Radically new way nations getting along. of Nations bound together through negotiation and bound by rules of international law. Woodrow wilson’s “baby”, the peace treatment of WW1. Wilson felt that militarism & social darwinism started WW1 so he wanted something else that would ban the countries together and would be able to peacefully discuss issues rather than resulting in war. The US never joined. In some ways it was a failure but it was incredibly important because it condemned Japan for it’s aggressions in the war and wanted members to enforce sanctions on Japan. This forced Japan to withdraw from the league and renounce the limitations on the size of it’s navy. Was replaced by the United Nations after WW2 |
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an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of North Africa and West Asia from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, referred to as the Arab world. It is closely connected to Arab nationalism, which asserts that the Arabs constitute a single nation.
This is arab nationalism. It asserts that Arabs constitute a single nation. Defined as several nation states that put Nationalism before everyone else. As a political movement it failed, but the "dream" lives on. Short term it failed. Long term it lives. |
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| arch symbol for aggressive secularism and nationalism in the Muslim world. Wanted to turn Turkey into the Modern Secular western state (1922). This was done by Kemal convening a National Assembly, which deposed the sultan and set the stage for over a decade of revolutionary change. With his power as president he tried to accomplish the modern secular nation- state by encouraging industrialization, according women full legal rights, mandating the use of a new Turkish alphabet, and ordering the use of Western-style dress. |
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| Established by the League of Nations, a compromise between the Allies' wish to retain the former German and Turkish colonies and their pre-Armistice declaration that annexation of territory was not their aim in the war. Part of Versailles conference, wanted to take what was left of german and ottoman empire but Wilson felt the people there should choose. Pieces of land would be temporarily given to nurture the countries back to “health”. |
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