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Modern East Asia Ch9
Modern East Asia: An Integrated History - Ch 9 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Nationalist | the Chinese Guomindang (GMD) government under Chiang Kai-Shek |
Jiang Jieshi | (Chiang Kai-Shek) represented Chinese nationalism, controlled the Guomindang (Nationalist) army, had a strong aversion to Communists |
Wang Jingwei | Japan's newly established puppet, the “Reformed Government” in China |
United Front | the GMD (Guomindang) and the CCP operating together against Japan |
CCP | the Chinese Communist Party |
GMD | Song Jiaoren combined the United League with several smaller parties to form the Chinese Guomindang (GMD or KMT), the Nationalist Party |
Joseph Stilwell | (1883–1946)—a Chinese-speaking general eager to fight Japan — President Roosevelt sent him to head the US military mission in China. |
GGK | Government-General of Korea |
GG | Governor-General |
Ugaki Kazushige | an ultranationalist with close ties to the Kantōgun - Government-General of Korea |
Manzhouguo | (Manchuria) Kantōgun officers found former Qing officials willing to form an “independent” new state of Manzhouguo |
Sin’ganhoe | New Korea Society |
Red Peasant Unions | Korean union that carried out a series of violent attacks against landlords and local police stations in the far northeastern Hamgyŏng province. |
KIP | Korean Independence Party - Cho Soang (1887– 1958) and Kim Ku formed it, attempting to monopolize the legacy of the defunct Shanghai Provisional Government of a decade before. |
Korean National Revolutionary Party | A more powerful Korean group that coalesced around the leftist headed by Kim Wŏnbong (1898–1958?). |
Kantōgun | (also called “Kwantung Army” in English) The Japanese army force that patrolled the South Manchurian Railway |