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- Tactic - A "specific action" by an individual or organization, whose purpose is to achieve some goal or accomplishment. UdB needs to implement clever and effective tactics in order to advance the struggle. See "Strategy".
- Taíno - .
- Taiwan - .
- Tanaka, Prime Minister - He was the political leader in Japan before WWII that prepared plans for building a Japanese empire in Asia through military violence and conquest. These plans served as a starting point for military action that later sparked WWII.
- Teatro Campesino - A teatro group started by Luis Valdez that became famous during the Chicano Movement.
- Technology - Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, and crafts, or is systems or methods of organization, or is a material product (such as clothing) of these things.
- Tenayuca, Emma - Chicana Mexicana leader from San Antonio, Texas. She was only 18 years old when she fought for the rights of Mexican workers during the 1930s.
- Tenochtitlán - The capital of the Aztec civilization, now the site of Mexico city.
- Teotihuacan - The ruins of an ancient city in central Mexico, near Mexico City.
- Texas Rangers - A member of a special branch of the Texas state police force, a semiofficial group of mounted settlers organized to fight and kill indigenous people, attack Mexicans, and maintain anglo power along the border. It later became officially known as the Border Patrol.
Texcoco, Lake - .
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- Theory - - .
- Third Reich - .
- Third World - Attributed to Mao Tse-Tung, "Third World Theory" placed Western Europe as the first world, the Soviet Union and other socialist countries as the second world, and Africa, most of Asia and Latin America, as the third world.
- Tierra del Fuego - An "archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan".
- Tierra y Libertad -.
- Tijerina, Reies López - .
- Tlalóc - Mexica god of rain.
- Tlatoani - .
- Tonantzin - Mexica god of of earth; mother earth.
- Torres, Camilo - Colombian Roman Catholic priest associated with Liberation Theology and with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional. He died February 15, 1966 during his first combat against the Colombian military as a member of the ELN and was made an official martyr of the group.
- Totalitarian - A government that exercises dictatorial control over the life of its people and oppresses them totally.
- Transcend - To rise above or go beyond the limits of something else or from a previous state.
- Transformation - A complete and total change of something.
- Transcontinental - Spanning across more than one continent.
- Transnational - A form of doing things or of carrying out an action across national borders, so as to have effects at a more general level.
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - The peace treaty that formally ended the US war against Mexico. This was resulting from unauthorized negotiations between U.S. commissioner Nicholas P. Trist and Mexican general Santa Anna. It was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo, near Mexico City, on Feb. 2, 1848, and gave away half of Mexican national territory including California, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. The land stolen was later identified by the Chicano Movement as "Aztlán".
- Treaty of Versailles - The major treaty ending WWI, signed at Versailles, France,on June 28, 1919, and enforced on Jan. 10, 1920, following ratification by Germany and four of the principal allied and associated powers, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
- Trench Warfare - Warfare in which the opposing armies attack and counterattack from relatively permanent trench systems, contracted in close proximity to each other. Was used throughout WWI.
- Triangular Trade - Refers to the three legs of the journey (forming a triangle) traders made between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the 1600s. This was based upon the genocide (death) of the indigenous people of the Americas and the enslavement of African people. The triangular trade became the basis for the modern world economy (as primitive accumulation).
- Triple Alliance, Central Powers - The alliance 1882-1915 of Germany Austria, and Italy.
- Triple Entente, Allied Powers - An informal understanding formed between Great Britain, France, and Russia before WWI to counterbalance the Triple Alliance.
- Truman Doctrine - A major turning point in American foreign policy, the Truman doctrine marked the beginning of the U.S. effort to contain communist expansion.
- Truman, Harry - President of the United States after WWII that under whose presidency the policy of "containment" against communism was used in the early years of the Cold War.
- Tsar Nicholas II - 1868-1918, the last emperor of Russia who was overthrown by the Russian Revolution.
- Tse-Tung, Mao - Born 1893 in China, died 1976. A Marxist, military strategist, revolutionary, and key leader of the Chinese Revolution of 1949. One of the most important and influential individuals in world history, Mao was the communist leader of the Chinese Revolution that transformed China from a poor, oppressed colony, into a world power. In his teachings and practice, Mao emphasized the leading role of the peasants and the struggle in the countryside, versus the urban proletariat and the city as other Marxist revolutionaries had prioritized. He also elaborated upon the importance of contradictions as a guide for the developing strategies and tactics (and was at times criticized for being too flexible - to a degree that some claim he was really giving concessions to the enemy). Mao is recognized as the formulator of the "Third World Theory". Many of those who presently claim to be "Maoists", are known to practice an adventuristic and opportunist line, and we understand that in reality they are not Maoists but infantile radicals.
- Túpac Amaru - .
- Túpac Katari - .
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