Question | Answer |
Refusal to obey a law you consider unjust. Examples: refusal to pay taxes, Salt March, Gandhi | civil disobedience |
resisting in a non-violent way | passive resistance |
rejection of war or violence as a way of settling disputes | pacifism |
pride in one's nation or group OR the desire for independence. Examples: Gandhi, Kenyatta | nationalism |
glorification of war or the military. Example: Japan after World War I | militarism |
land surrounded on three sides by water | peninsula |
chain of islands | archipelago |
refusal to buy goods | boycott |
became the symbol of the Indian independence movement because of Gandhi's suggestion that Indians spin their own clothes | spinning wheel |
march to the sea (led by Gandhi) to protest a British tax on salt. Example of civil disobedience. | Salt March |
movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine | Zionism |
pledged British support for the Zionist movement | Balfour Declaration |
the attempted elimination of a group of people in whole or in part. Example: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. | genocide |
the right to choose your own government | self-determination |
An estimate 1 to 1.5 million of this group were killed in the Ottoman Empire in a genocide during World War I | Armenians |
Leader of Turkey who sought to modernize/westernize Turkey. Eliminated fez and veil, adopted Western Style last names, etc. | Kemal Ataturk |
Pledged to limit US interference in Latin America and renounced past US interference. | Good Neighbor Policy |
A Nationalist leader in Kenya who worked to gain independence from British rule. | Jomo Kenyatta |
Nationalist leader in India who used his belief of civil disobedience to help India resist British rule. | Mohandas Gandhi |
Retreat of the Chinese Communists (led by Mao Zedong) in the civil war with the Nationalists | Long March |