Causes
Marx, Lenin, Nicholas, Rasputin, Alexander Kerensky,
Trotsky, Stalin
Outcome
 Indian nationalist leader. where he spent 20 years
opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians.
 Promoted mass non-violent civil disobedience
 He supported the Home Rule movement, and became
leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a
policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve
independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and
laborers protest oppressive taxation and
discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty,
liberate women and put an end to caste
discrimination, with the ultimate objective being selfrule for India.
 First Prime Minister of an independent India
 Father of Indira Gandhi
US Involvement
Treaty of Versailles
 Meeting among leaders of the U.S., Britain, and USSR
in 1945
 Discussed post war Europe
 Help to establish an independent Turkish republic in
1923.
 Modeled reforms off of Western ideals
 New Latin alphabet
 Woman’s suffrage
 a Turkish nationalist reform party in the early
twentieth century, favoring reformation of the
absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Empire.
 Borrowed at some of their ideas from the earlier
“Young Italy”
 their leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul
Hamid II
 They ruled the former Ottoman empire from 1908
until the end of World War I in November 1918.
 1958
 Efforts by Mao to revitalize the flagging
revolution by restoring its mass, rural
base.
 Emphasis was place on self-reliance
within the peasant communes
 The Cultural Revolution is the name given to Mao’s
attempt to reassert his beliefs in China
 Mao deliberately set out to create a cult for himself and
to purge the Chinese Communist Party of anyone who
did not fully support Mao
 This is the Japanese term for the industrial and
financial conglomerates that controlled much of the
nation’s industry.
 influence and size allowed for control over significant
parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period
until the end of World War II.
 set of companies with interlocking business
relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of
business group.
 The keiretsu maintained dominance over the Japanese
economy for the greater half of the 20th century, but
are beginning to lose their grip
 Head of Revolutionary Alliance, organization that led
the 1911 revolt against the Qing dynasty in China
 Briefly elected president in 1911, but yielded in favor of
Yuan Shikai in 1912
 Created Nationalist party of China in 1919; died in
1925.
 Polish politician who co-founded the solidarity trade-
union movement
 Persecuted by the Polish communist government
 Robert Oppenheimer is often called the father of the
atomic bomb
 He was the guiding physicist in the development of the
atomic bomb
 an influential American painter and a major figure in
the abstract expressionist movement
 an American artist who was a leading figure in the
visual art movement known s pop art.
 Japanese writer
 His works, strongly influenced by French and
American literature and literary theory, deal with
political, social and philosophical issues including
nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and social nonconformism
How did European colonialism affect
Africa?
 The economically powerful city nation-states in south
East Asia that came into formation in the last half of
the 20th century. (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and,
South Korea.)
 Pol Pot
 Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led
the Khmer Rough from 1963-1998
 Imposed agrarian socialism: forced urban
dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work
in collective farms and forced labor projects
 Genocide
 21% of the population died
 1.7-2.5 million people out of 8 million died from
starvation or executions
 2nd President of Egypt
 1956: Egypt vs. Britain, France, and Israel
 Nationalized the Suez Canal
 Israel vs. Jordan, Egypt, and Syria
 Israel won
 Took Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt
 West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan
 Golan heights from Syria
 Israel attacked by Arab states led by Egypt and Syria
on Yom Kippur
 U.S. and U.S.S.R supplied each side, almost coming
into direct conflict with each other
 Israel Wins
 Humiliates the Arab World and show Israel that they
are vulnerable to attacks