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WH Chapter 15 Terms
Nationalism and Revoltuion Around the World
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9th Grade
02/13/2009

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haciendas
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large plantations
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nationalization
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government takeover of natural resources
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economic nationalization
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emphasis on home control of the economy
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assets
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things of value
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cultural nationalism
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pride in one's own culture
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intervening
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coming between two arguing factions
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Good Neighbor Policy
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policy in which American Franklin Roosevelt promised that the United States would interfere less in Latin American affairs
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apartheid
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a policy of rigid segregation
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Pan-Africanism
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a movement that emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent worldwide.
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negritude movement
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self confidence and pride in African roots and protest in colonial rule awakened by French-speaking writers.
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Asia Minor
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The Turkish peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
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assert
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maintain or defend
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Pan-Arabism
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nationalist movement built on shared heritage of Arabs who lived in lands from the Arabian Peninsula to North Africa.
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advocated
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supported or favored
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Balfour Declaration
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British idea of setting up a National home for Jewish people in Palestine.
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Amritsar massacre
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an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians
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discriminated
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treated differently because of prejudice
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ahimsa
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Hindu belief in nonviolence and reverence for all life
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civil disobedience
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refusal to obey unjust laws
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untouchables
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in India, a member of the lowest castes
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boycott
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refuse to buy
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Gandhi
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led a successful, peaceful revolution against British rule.
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Twenty-One Demands
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list of demands given to China by Japan in 1915 that, if agreed to, would have made China a protectorate of Japan
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May Fourth Movement
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cultural movement in China that sought to reform China and make it stronger
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vanguard
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group of elite leaders
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Guomindang
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China's Nationalist Party (non-communist)
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Long March
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epic march in which a group of Chinese Communists retreated from Guomindang forces by marching over 6,000 miles
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faction
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a group within a larger group
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manipulated
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influenced skillfully, often, unfairly
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ultranationalist
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extreme nationalist
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Manchuria
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historic province in northeastern China, rich in natural resources
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