Chapter 29 AP World History Vocabulary

Mexican Revolution

(1910-1920 CE) Fought over a period of almost 10 years form 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

Henry Ford

1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

Interwar Period

1918-1939, rise of Hitler. Germany undergoes resentment of Versailles conditions, hyperinflation of Reichsmark, unemployment. War devastated Europe leaves a power vacuum. Great Depression occurs in US and Europe causing US isolationism and protectionism. The League of Nations exists but doesn't do much.

Pablo Picasso

A Spaniard in Paris who formed a movement in 1907 called Cubism. Cubism concentrated on a complex geometry of zigzagging lines and sharply angled, overlapping plane.

Ba Jin

A modern Chinese author born in 1904 who wrote multiple short stories/ novels, including the trilogy Family, Spring, and Autumn, which portrayed a family who's younger members try to break away from the elder's Confucian ideas; he sometimes isolated himself in his study for a year

Communist Party

A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I Lenin originally the Russian Bolshevik. Thought that one class would evolve, property would all be held in common, and there would be no need for government; the central government directs all major economic decisions.

Pancho Villa

A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth, when the revolution started, he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata. Mexican Robin Hood.

Fascism

A system of government characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First found in Italy by Mussolini.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another. Signed by the Great Power Nations: France, Itlay, Germany, etc...

Eva Duarte

Also known as Evita Perón; first wife of Juan Perón; became public spokesperson for Perón among the poor until her death in 1952. Argentina.

Council of People's Comissars

Bolsheviks replace the Provisional Government; Lenin= head; Trotsky= foreign affairs; and Stalin= commissar for nationalities; they make peace in WWI with Germany with the treaty of Brest Litovsk; soon Lenin establishes dictatorship of the Proletariat

Sun Yat-Sen

Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.

May Fourth Movement

Chinese protest movement triggered by opposition to the Treaty of Versailles; a major step in the path leading to the creation and victory of CCP.

Cristeros

Conservative peasant movement in Mexico during the 1920s; most active in central Mexico; attempted to halt slide toward secularism; movement resulted in armed violence.

Francisco Madero

Early leader in the Mexican Revolution; in 1911 became president of Mexico; wanted land ownership and free, honest elections.

Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970).

Mussolini

Founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years, most of that time as dictator. He dreamed of building Italy into a great empire, but he led his nation to defeat in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people.

Lenin

Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.

Chiang Kai-Shek

General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.

John Dewey

He was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. He believed that the teachers' goal should be "education for life and that the workbench is just as important as the blackboard."

Alexander Kerensky

Headed the Provisional Government in 1917. Refused to redistribute confiscated landholdings to the peasants. Thought fighting the war was a national duty.

PRI

Institutional Revolutionary Party which dominated Mexican politics and claimed to represent all groups.

Emiliano Zapata

Leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which lasted 10 years; 1910-1920; faught for farmers' rights; gathered army in southern Mexico and urged farmers to join; Liberation Army of the South.

Congress of Soviets

Lenin's parliamentary institution based on Soviets under Bolshevik domination; replaced the Social Revolutionary Party.

Diego Rivera

Mexican Muralist who created artworks in Mexico and the U.S. focusing on political messages.

Red Army

Military organization constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin; made use of people of humble background.

Korekiyo Takahashi

Minister of finance in Japan during the 1930s; increased government spending to provide jobs; created export boom and elimination of military spending.

MVD

Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial Russia, later USSR, the secret police.

Twenty-One Demands

Name for Japan's demands to the U.S., including its threat to close China to European and American trade. Resolved by the 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement, a treaty which tried to settle differences between the U.S. and Japan.

Corridos

Narrative song and poetry form, a ballad, of the mestizo Mexican cultural area.

Guomindang

Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.

Roaring Twenties

Nickname for the 1920's because of the booming economy and fast pace of life during that era.

New Economic Policy

Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans.

Lazaro Cardenas

President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry.

Mexican Constitution of 1917

Promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers, and placed restrictions on clerical education; marked formal end of Mexican Revolution.

Joseph Stalin

Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953).

Francisco Franco

Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)

Revolutionary Alliance

Sun Yat-Sen's organization of radical groups across China.

Collectivization

System in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants worked on it. Was a major fail in Russia.

Descamisados

Term meaning "the shirtless ones," popularized by Juan and Evita Perón to refer to the working-class masses and dispossessed.

Long March

The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.

Syndicalism

The French trade-unionist belief that workers would become the governmental power through a general strike that would paralyze society.

USSR

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in 1922 by the communists and officially dissolved in 1991. Russia.

Indigenism

The concern for the indigent peoples and their contribution that was below many reforms after indianization Rivera and Orozco.

Zaibatsu

The large family-controlled banking and industrial groups that owned many companies in Japan before World War II.

October Revolution

The seizure of power by force by the Bolsheviks from the Provisional Government in November of 1917. After the forceful seizure of power, Lenin set himself up as the first head of a Marxist state with aspirations to change the country, making several decrees in his effort use socialist ideas.

Mao Zedong

This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life.

Red Scare

Two periods of time, in the 1920s and 1950s, in which Americans feared the growth of communism. These suspicions led to tests of the civil liberties of people under the Constitution.

Comintern

Was an international communist organization founded in March of 1919 by Lenin, this thing wanted to overthrow the international Bourgeoisie and create a socialist state.

Mariano Azuela

Wrote fictional stories about the Mexican Revolution; tried to inspire others to take part. Famous work: Los de Abajo