AP World History Unit 7 - Lesson 7.5

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

________, Muslim voice in the Indian National Congress, proposed that a separate state (Pakistan) should be formed with the independence of India to prioritize Muslim interests.

Mandate System

Compromise from the Allies to handle the Central Power colonies, an sanctioned method of colonization

Tutelage post WW1

The required authority over colonies "not advanced" enough for self-rule

Pan-Arabism

Arab started movement calling for the unification of North African and Middle Eastern League of Nation mandates

Balfour Declaration

British government document stating that Palestine should become a permanent European Jew home

Amritsar Massacre

In a 1919 Punjab, Sikh festival, Indian nationalists were peacefully protesting (banned by the British government) the arrest of two freedom fighters, as a result colonial forces killed/wounded around 1,500 civilians

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian revolutionist and human rights activist, known for his peaceful protests against British rule over India

Satyagraha Movement

"devotion to truth", this resistance started by Gandhi encouraged the Indian people to break unjust laws (Civil Disobedience)

Salt March

Gandhi led thousands of Indians to walk across the Arabia Sea and picking up grains of salt, defying Britains unjust law against Indian sea salt production as they wanted a British salt monopoly

March First Movement

March 1919, 2 million Koreans protested Japanese rule, displaying their powerful nationalism, and were punished brutally by Japanese forces

May Fourth Movement

Anti-Japanese demonstration in China 1919, expressing Chinese nationalism and democratic desires

Decolonization

Process for colonies to become independent from colonizing countries.

Civil Disobedience

Protest in the form of refusing to comply with laws seen as unjust.

Kuomintang

Chinese Nationalist Party

Zionists

Those who believe in supporting a home state for the Jewish people.

Mahatma

Great Souled

Long March

Retreat of the Chinese Communist Party during the civil war, relocated their base and strengthened their future rule.

Mao Zedong

Led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.

Manchukuo

Japanese puppet state in North East China, controlled by imperial Japan

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Japan’s new wave of colonization after World War One.