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Question | Answer |
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Chinese politician who served as provisional president of the republic after the fall of the Manchu (1911–1912) and later led the opposition to Yuan Shigai. | Sun Yat-sen |
Chinese politician. Authorized by China's final imperial edict to create a republican government, he was named president but ruled as a dictator (1912–1916). | Yuan Shikai |
Founded by Chinese Communist leader and theorist Mao Zedong,led the Long March,proclaimed the People's Republic of China. Started Great Leap Forward/founding of communes. continued as party chairman after 1959,leading figure in the Cultural Revolution. | Chinese Communist Party |
Military officer who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Nationalist party in China in the mid 1920’s; became the most powerful leader in China, his Nationalist forces were defeated/driven from China by the communist after World War II. | Chiang Kai-shek - Nanjing Republic |
Emperor of Japan. Birth name was Yoshihito.son of Mutsuhito. succeeded to the throne in 1912. reign was characterized by democratization, friendly relations with the West,economic growth.1921 declared mentally incompetent;replaced by son Hirohito | Emperor Taisho |
Journey undertaken by Red Army in 1934-35 when Jiangxi base was encircled by the Nationalist army & Chiang Kai-Shek | Long March |
author/right-wing nationalist, “Asia for Asians” so kick out Europeans | Kita Ikki |
step towards war with military gov’t, renames it Manchuko, invading mainland China & commits atrocities | Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
figurehead of Japan, actually controlled by military when the war starts for Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | Emperor Hirohito |
40th prime minister of Japan, nationalist, general in Imperial Army, executed for war crimes | Hidiki Tojo |
one atrocity of the war, 200,000 ~ 300,000 women/children attacked | Rape of Nanking |
British fire on unarmed protesters, Gandhi goes to prison, British get more restrictive | Amritsar Massacre |
Takes over Congress/movement, political leader of India, begins “Quit India” campaign so Brits leave | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Roosevelt reduces US role in Latin America, no troops | Good Neighbor Policy |
Latin America = US views L America as their sphere of influence, gained Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands, military present in Panama, sponsored dictators in Venezuela/Cuba | US foreign policy - Latin America |
Mexico, granted suffrage & right to strike, but actually oligarchy that chose president, upper class prospers, country modernizes, but middle class small & lower class huge | Institutionalized Revolutionary Party |
president of Mexico 1934, redistributes acres with land reform, nationalized oil industry (took from US) | Lazaro Cardenas |
Brazil, 1930, takes over, censored press, tortured political opponents, modernized Brazilian economy (diversifies, free from coffee) | Getulio Vargas |
Argentina, 1916 Radical party, reforms benefit peasants, labor unions become more active, overthrown in 1930 | Hipolito Irigoyen |
Argentina, takes over after WWII, populist leader, wife popular, appeal to lower class, raised salaries of working class, gov’t controlled press, denied civil liberties | Juan and Eva Peron |
Hitler takes back land given away by Versailles | occupation of Rhineland |
Hitler's desire for "living space" for German people, wants to unite Germans from other nations | Lebensraum |
Symbolic failure of appeasement; Hitler given Czech. Sudetenland for promise of no future aggression | Munich Conference |
Agreement of Stalin/Hitler to not fight each other, but invade, divide up Poland | Nazi-Soviet Pact |
Signalled beginning of World War II, France/England declare war on Germany | invasion of Poland |
lightning fast war coordinating planes, tanks, infantry - move past border, directly to capital | blitzkrieg |
Name given to Asian region Japan wanted to conquer, kick out Europeans, control resources | Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere |