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australia,canada and new zealand; forged separate "autonomous communities" within the british empire, called the british commonwealth of nations
settler societies
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the 1920s and 1930s shaped by the results of world war 1
interwar period
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promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers, and polaced restrictions on clerical education; marked formal end of mexican revolution
mexican constitution of 1917
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nationalist political form the feastured an authoritarian leader, aggressive foreign policy, and government-guided economiecs; started in italy
fascism
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founder and dictator of the fascist party in italy
benito mussolini
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mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the nortrh; pursued unsuccessfully by the u.s. government in 1913
pancho villa
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emerged as mexico's leaderr at the end of the revolution; wrote a new constitution that promised land reforms.
alvaro obregon
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mixican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the south; motto was "tierra y olivertad"; (land and liberty) demanded oland reform
emiliano zapata
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this mexican politicall party dominated politics from the 1930s to the end of the century
party of the industrialized revolution (PRI)
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millions died in the strugled between the reds (pro-communists forces) and whites (an amalgam of non-communists); the reds won, largely because of the organizational skills of leon trotsky.
russian civil war (1918-1921)
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lenin deputy who organized the red armyu during the civil war and later lost a power struggled to staloin
leon trotsky
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lenin's temporarty measure that allowed some capitalism within a communist framework; food production increased under this program; ended by stalin
new economic policy
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name of he moscow-based multiedthnic communist regime from 1923 to 1991
union of soviet socialist repuclics
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assistant to lenin who beat out trotsky for undisputed control of the U.S.S.R. after lenin's death; installed the nationalisti "socialism in one contry: orogram, collectivization, and widespread purges.
joseph stalin
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western-educated leader of the revolutionary alliance, the guomindang, and at times, chinca, in the 1910s and 1920s; struggled with warlords for control of the nation.
sun yat-sen
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featured intellectuals and students as its leaders;l sank under the weight of problems facing china in the early 20th century
may fourth movement
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leader of chinese communist party and eventuaal dictator of that country.
mao zedong
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nationalist party in china; it was the communist part's greatest rival, yet the guomindang and communists forged an alliance against japanese aggression; the ruling party in mainland china until 1949, it failed to emplement most of the domestic programs in proposed.
guomindand
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successor to sun as leader of the chinese nationalists; fierce oppnent of the communists and mao, yet he formed an alliance with then to fight japan.
chiang kai-shek
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to escape the nationalists, 90,000 mao supporters traveled thousands of miles in 1934 to remote regions; solidified mao's leadership and created much of his myth
long march
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fought over a period of almost 10 years from 1910; resulted in ouster of porfirio diaz from power; opposition forces led by pancho villa and emiliano zapata
mexican revolution
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worldwide economic collapse that began in late 1929 and continued until the outset of world war 2
great depression
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stalin's program to build a self-sufficient communist state based on industrial production
socialism in one country
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the united states answer to the great depresssion, consisting of government assistance to people affected by the crisis and of government reform of economic institutions
new deal
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soviet policy of eliminating private ownership of farmland and creating large state-run farms.
collectivization
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"political bureau" in the U.S.S.R. that was supposed to be the executive committe but in reality was, especially under stalin, a rubber-stamp organization
politburo
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