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| in each country during the first World War, a government of national unity that began to plan and control economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effect. |
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National Self Determination |
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| the principle in international law, that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference. |
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| Kept the U.S. out of the first world war until this "The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. . . . We are accepting this challenge. . . . The world must be made safe for democracy." On April 6, Congress declared war. |
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| Jan 8, 1918 he proposed them as an attempt at a peace treaty. The final peace treaty contained many of his initial ideas. |
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Balfour Declaration
(Nov 2 1917) |
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| "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." |
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| the efforts of some jews to establish a Jewish nation in the land of Palestine. |
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| chaired the first Zionist Congress and was the founder of the modern zionist movement |
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Middle East in the Interwar Period |
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| the award of a mandate to the World Zionist Congress by the League of Nations constituted the first step in creating a Jewish state in the eastern Mediterranean. |
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| Japan during the Interwar Period |
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| invasion of Manchuria by Japan; Basically looked south with hopes of expanding their empire;1937 invasion of the Republic of China; closed their economy off to the west for quite some time; took Germany's asian colonies after WWI ; more rights such as voting for all men; scarce natural resources; large businesses, small middle class emperor; |
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| Arabs promised independence to fight Ottomans; Turks, Arabs, Iranians, Jews and Palestines want land and control; Vision of National Self Determination |
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Mustafa Kemal
(Ataturk or "Father Turk") |
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| Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, as well as the first Turkish President. Led the turkish national movement in the turkish war of independence. |
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| Last Shah of the Qajar Dynasty;He established an authoritarian government that valued nationalism, militarism, secularism and anti-communism combined with strict censorship and state propaganda.Reza Shah introduced many socio-economic reforms, reorganizing the army, government administration, and finances. To many Iranian nationalists he is considered the father of modern Iran |
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Sun Yatsen of the Republic of China |
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| Chinese revolutionary and political leader;played an instrumental role in inspiring the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China.the first provisional president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Chinese National People's Party or Kuomintang,where he served as its first leader. A uniting figure in post-Imperial China. |
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| an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem. These demonstrations sparked national protests and marked the upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards populist base rather than intellectual elites. |
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Chiang Kaishek vs Mao Tse-Tung |
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Mao was a communist and enemy of the US, Chang Kai-Shek was an old ally from WW2, and an enemy of communism.
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Japanese author, intellectual and political philosopher;first outlined his philosophy of state socialism in his book The Theory of Japan's National Polity and Pure Socialism;criticizes Marxism and a working class-oriented socialism as outdated and instead relies on an exposition of evolutionary theory that owes much to Social Darwinism;Taken at face value, he appears to have created a hybrid offascism, state socialism or "socialism from above", agrarianism, and militarism. Although his writings call for Japan to liberate Asia, he also calls for Japan to embark on overseas expansion due to increasing population pressures.
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| philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed and conceived by Ghandi;deployed Soul Forces in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles inSouth Africa; strength in practising non-violent methods |
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