Unit 5: Installation of New Governments    Delaney Simeral

Topic 17 Lesson 7: The Soviet Union Under Stalin

1. Command economy - central government makes basic economic decisions

2. Collective - Peasants operating a large farm as a group

3. Kulak - peasants in soviet union who were wealthy 

4. Gulag - Forced labor camps under Stalin where prisoners were kept

5. Socialist realism - artistic style promoting socialist ideas

6. Boris Pasternak - Jewish, wrote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ which was banned in the soviet union, nobel prize winner

7. Russification - Policy from Stalin of imposing Russian culture on the soviet union

8. Atheism - belief in no god

9. Comintern - international association of communist parties for spreading communism

Topic 15 Lesson 5: China and the West

1. Balance of Trade - the difference in a country's imports and exports

2. Trade Surplus - when a country exports more than it imports

3. Trade Deficit - when a country imports more than it exports

4. Opium War - Chinese / British war over trade restrictions 

5. Indemnity - payment for losses in war

6. Extraterritoriality - foreigners right to be protected by the laws of their own nation

7. Taiping Rebellion - Chinese peasant rebellion 

8. Sino-Japanese War - Chinese / Japanese war which had Japan gain Taiwan

9. Open Door Policy - American attitude towards China and other nations in 1900s favoring open trade

10. Guang Xu - ninth emperor of Qing dynasty, died under suspicious circumstances, attempted reforms

11. Boxer Uprising - Chinese anti-foreign movement in the 1898-1900

12. Sun Yixian - Started out poor, revolted, was exiled to Japan, then elected provincial president of the newly established republic of China, allied with communist to defeat warlords

Topic 17 Lesson 4: New Forces in China and Japan

1. Twenty-One Demands - in 1915, list of demands to China from Japan that would have made china a protectorate of japan

2. May Fourth Movement - cultural movement in china that wanted to reform and strengthen it

3. Vanguard - elite leader group

4. Guomindang - Chinese nationalist party, 1912 - 1949

5. Jian Jeshi - member of communist party, led the chinese military to assist the allies in WWII

6. Mao Zedong - Led army on ‘Epic March’, initiated drastic reforms, used terror and intolerance, which made him internationally notorious.

7. Long March - (Epic March) in which chinese communist forces retreated from Guomindang by marching 6,000+ miles

8. Ultranationalist - very nationalist

9. Manchuria - natural resource rich historic province in northeastern China

10. Hirohito - thought to be the living sun god, suppressed freedom, longest reigning japanese emperor

Topic 19 Lesson 3: Communism in East Asia

1. Collectivization - joining of workers and property into collectives 

2. Great Leap Forward - Failed chinese communist program that was supposed to increase farm and industrial output

3. Cultural Revolution - program trying to purge china of nonrevolutionary tendencies which caused social and economic damage

4. 38th Parallel - the line that would mark 38 degrees latitude, known for dividing the korean peninsula into north and south

5. Kim II Sung - leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), supported by soviets, established totalitarian military state

6. Syngman Rhee - President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), elected to four terms, accused of election fraud, resigned and went into exile in Hawaii

7. Pusan Perimeter - defensive line around Pusan city, marks farthest advance of north korean forces

8. Demilitarized Zone - No-man's-land between north and south korea established in 1953

Topic 15 Lesson 6: The Modernization of Japan

1. Matthew Perry - U.S. Naval Officer, led expedition to Japan, led the way for Japanese trading in American

2. Mutsuhito - also known as Meiji, Emperor in 1868, tried to learn from western counterparts, reformed Japan during his reign

3. Tokyo - Capital city of Japan

4. Meiji Restoration - reformation and restoration of Japan by Emperor Meiji

5. Diet - assembly / legislature

6. Zaibatsu - powerful banking / industrial families, since the 1800s, in Japan

7. Homogeneous society - society that has one language and culture

8. First Sino-Japanese War - China vs. Japan, fighting over Korea

9. Russo-Japanese War - Russia vs. Japan, fighting over Korea and Manchuria