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Chp. 27
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jiang Jieshi | leader of the nationalist Guomindang party in China, he was also known as Chiang Kai-Shek |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communist party of China |
| Long March | a 6,000 mile trek through China traveled by Communist to find a safe place beyond Guomindang control |
| Amritsar Massacre | 1919 incident in which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed Indian demonstrators, killing 400 people and convincing many Indians that British rule must end |
| Mohandas Gandhi | leader of nonviolent movement in India against British rule |
| Kemal Ataturk | leader of military effort effort to claim Anatolia for ethnic Turks, which led to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey |
| credit | an arrangement in which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 192, a day when investors sold off 16 million shares of stock, leading to a massive stock market collapse |
| Great Depression | severe downturn in the American economy that followed the 1929 stock market crash |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | U.S President |
| New Deal | |
| John Maynard Keynes | |
| Smoot-Hawley Traffic Act |