Modern World History: Chapter 14 – Flashcards
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Proletariat
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Working class.
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Bolsheviks
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Pro-communism revolutionaries. Led by Lenin, later on by Stalin. Formed the Red Army.
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Lenin
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Leader of the Bolsheviks. Ruthless.
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Bloody Sunday
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January 22, 1905. Over 200,000 workers and their families organized a petition for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Protest ended in a massacre from the government towards the people. Several hundred died, over 1,000 were injured.
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Rasputin
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Medic/Shaman, aided the son of Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra with his hemophilia. Gained the trust of the family. In reward, Alexandra allowed Rasputin to make political decisions.
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Provisional Government
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Temporary government.
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Soviets
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Groups of socialists revolutionaries.
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Red Army
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Bolshevik army.
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White Army
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Army against the Bolsheviks.
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Communist Party
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Bolshevik's party name.
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Joseph Stalin
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Lenin's successor. Stalin = "man of steel".
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Totalitarianism
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Government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life.
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Great Purge
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Stalin's campaign of terror against all those opposing him.
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Command Economy
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Economic system in which government controls all aspects of economy within a nation.
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Five-Year Plans
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Stalin's plans to industrialize Russia. A total of 10 years would be dedicated towards the industrialization of Russia.
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Collective Farms
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Government seized over 25 million private owned farms, then combined them into one large system of farms called collective farms.
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Kuomintang
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Group pushing for modernization and nationalization.
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Sun Yixian
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First leader of the Kuomintang.
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May Fourth Movement
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Protests against Chinese government for unfulfillment of recuperation of Chinese past territories.
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Mao Zedong
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1st leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Jiang Jieshi
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Nationalist leader.
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Long March
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After the Communist Party faced defeat by the Nationalist Party, 100,000 communist forces fled.
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Rowlatt Acts
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British law over Hindu people. Laws allowed the British to imprison any protestors against the British government.
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Amritsar Massacre
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Massacre caused by British officials for the supposed defy of the grouping ban imposed by the British government.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Indian independence leader.
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Civil Disobedience
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Hindu disobedience against all major regulations imposed by the British government within India. These include, boycotts, strikes and demonstrations, and the Salt March.
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Salt March
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Act against British Salt Ban, activists collected salt from the ocean and used it for personal use.
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Mustafa Kemal
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Led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers.
