AP World History - Chapter 23

Indian National Congress

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Indian nationalist, politician, and lawyer who led the campaign against British rule by employing methods of nonviolent confrontation

ahimsa

Jain term for the principle of nonviolence to other living things or their souls

satyagraha

“truth and firmness;” term associated with Gandhi’s policy of passive resistance

Government of India Act

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

politician and independence fighter who led the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the founding of Pakistan in 1947 and then served as the first leader of independent Pakistan until his death

Xuantong

Sun Yatsen

Chinese physician and politician who founded the Chinese Nationalist Guomindang Party and then briefly served as the first president of the Republic of China

May Fourth Movement

Chinese movement that began May 4, 1919 with a desire to eliminate imperialist influences and promote national unity

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Mao Zedong

Chinese Communist revolutionary who ruled China as the chairman of the Communist Party from 1949, when the communists defeated the nationalist Guomindang Party and forced its leaders to flee to Taiwan, until his death

Guomindang (Nationalist People’s Party)

Chinese Nationalist party founded by Sun Yatsen and later led by Jiang Jieshi;; it has been centered in Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war

Jiang Jieshi

also known as Chiang Kai-Shek; Chinese Nationalist revolutionary, military leader, and politician who led the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975, first in mainland China and then in Taiwan after the communist party won the civil war between them in 1949

Long March

Inukai Tsuyoshi

“Mukden incident”