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| (1887–1975) Chinese general and politician; he succeeded Sun Yixian as leader of the Nationalist Party in China and led attacks against Communists in China in the 1920s. |
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| (1893–1976) Leader of the Chinese Communists; he led a successful revolution and established a Communist government in China in 1949. |
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| 1934) the 6,000-mile journey made by Communist Chinese to escape Nationalist troop |
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| (1919) an event in which British troops fired on a large crowd of peaceful, unarmed Indian protestors, killing some 400 people; it led to a campaign of protest led by Gandhi |
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| (1869–1948) Leader of India’s struggle for independence from Great Britain; he organized the population for protest through the methods of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. |
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| an arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
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| October 29, 1929, the day that the United States stock market crashed |
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| 1929–1930s) a severe worldwide depression that followed the collapse of the United States stock market; prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| (1882–1945) Thirty-second president of the United States; he was elected president four times. He led the United States during the major crises of the Great Depression and World War II. |
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| U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan of economic relief, recovery, and reforms for the country during the Great Depression |
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| 1883–1946) British economist; his revolutionary economic theory, which stated that governments could prevent economic downturns by deficit spending, provided the basis for some of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. |
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| (1930) a U.S. law that set extremely high tariffs on imports in an effort to protect American farmers and manufacturers; the result was a worsening of the Great Depression |
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| Germany’s Chinese territories to Japan, which had captured this land during the war. To the Chinese, the Versailles treaty was a sign that the world still saw China as a weak nation. On May 4, 1919, thousands of angry students in Beijing demanded change. Strikes and protests swept the country in what came to be called the May Fourth Movement. |
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| Chinese Nationalists Troops |
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| llowed the British to deal harshly with the growing opposition in India |
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| nonviolence toward living things |
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| refusal to obey unjust laws. |
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| a series of meetings began in 1919. Organized by people of African heritage living around the world, these conferences led to a series of demands for African independence. |
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| borrowed money from stockbrokers in order to buy stocks, |
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