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World History Vocab
World History Chapter 13 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jiang Jieshi | Chinese general and politician, led attack against communists in china in the 1920s |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of Chinese communists; led a successful revolution and established a communist gov. in China |
| Long March | The 6,000 mile journey made by communist Chinese to escape nationalist troops |
| Amritsar Massacre | Event in which British troops fired on a large crowd of Indian protestors, killing about 400 people |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Leader of India's struggle for independence from Great Britain |
| Kemal Ataturk | Turkish leader and founder of modern Turkey |
| Credit | Arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929, the day the U.S. stock market crashed |
| Great Depression | A severe worldwide depression that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 32nd president of the U.S.; led U.S. during major crisis of the Great Depression and WWII |
| New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan of economic relief, recovery and reforms |
| Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act | A U.S. law that set extremely high tariffs on imports in an effort to protect American farmers and manufacturers |
| Manchurian Incident | Using an explosion on a Japanese-controlled Southern Manchurian railroad as an excuse |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | Agreement signed between Germany and Japan in which they established their opposition to the comintern |
| Nanjing Massacre | The murder of as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women and children by Japanese troops |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader; ruled as Italy's dictator for more than 20 years beginning in 1922 |
| Fascism | A totalitarian system of gov. that focuses on the good of the state rather than on the good of the citizens |
| Totalitarianism | Form of gov. in which the person or party in charge has absolute control over all aspects of life |
| Joseph Stalin | Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union; led Soviet Union through WWII |
| Gulag | A soviet forced labor camp or prison, used especially for political dissidents |
| Adolf Hitler | Totalitarian dictator of Germany; his invasion of European countries led to WWII |
| Nazi Party | National Socialist Party; fascist political party of Adolf Hitler governed on totalitarian lines and advocating German racial superiority |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility or prejudice towards Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws | Nazi laws that eliminated citizenship and many civil and property rights for Jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass"; event that occurred on the nights of November 9th and 10th |
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