OFL World History Unit 6 – Flashcards
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proletariat
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the workers Marxist believed that the industrial class of workers would form a "dictatorship of the proletariat"
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Bolsheviks
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supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change
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soviet
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local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers soviets had more influence than the provisional government
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Kuomintang
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the Nationalist Party that pushed for modernization and nationalization in China
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Long March
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a hazardous 6,000 mile long journey undertaken by the communist forces after the Nationalists surrounded them, resulting in the deaths of thousands
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fascism
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a new, militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
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appeasement
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giving into an aggressor to keep peace
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Axis Powers
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Japan, Germany, and Italy
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isolationism
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the belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided
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What were the immediate results of the November 1917 Bolshevik Revolution?
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The immediate results of the November 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was the down fall of the Provisional Russian government of March 1917
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Name the four methods of control used by totalitarian governments, and describe and example of how Stalin used it
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The four methods of control used by totalitarian governments are police terror, indoctrination, propaganda/censorship, and religious/ethnic persecution.
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Why did China want to participate in World War 1, and what was the outcome?
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They wanted to show the West that were on par with them, they also recently won a war with Russia
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What ideas did most fascists share?
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They taught an extreme form of nationalism, believed the nation's most struggled peaceful state would be conquered, and pledge loyalty to their leaders who guided them and brought them order
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Why was the Munich Conference unsuccessful?
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The leaders of France and Britain (and Italy) let Hitler take over parts of Czechoslovakia as long as he promised he wouldn't invade anything else
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Vladimir Lenin
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Bolshevik leader who controlled Russia from 1917 to 1924
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Rasputin
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a self described "holy man;" befriended Czarina Alexandra and was allowed to make key political decisions; opposed reform measures and obtained powerful positions for his friends; was murdered by a group of nobles
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Joseph Stalin
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a general secretary of the Communist Party during Lenin's rule; was in total command of the Communist Party by 1928
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Sun Yixian
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became president of the new Republic of China in 1912; hopes to establish a modern government based on the "Three Principles of the People" nationalism, people's rights, and people's livelihood
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Mao Zedong
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one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party; believed he could bring revolution to a rural country where the peasants could be the true revolutionaries
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Jiang Jieshi
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headed the Kuomintang after Sun Yixian; feared the Communist' goal of creating a socialist economy modeled after the Soviet Union's
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Benito Mussolini
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founded the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919; became its totalitarian dictator
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Adolf Hitler
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German totalitarian dictator who developed a brand a fascism known as Nazism
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Francisco Franco
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a Spanish general who defeated government forces to become Spain's first fascist dictator in 1939
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neutrality acts
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4 laws passed that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents (no loans or selling arms to nations at war etc.)
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indoctrination
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totalitarian states use education to instruct people in the government's beliefs to control their minds
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Mein Kampf
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name of Hitler's book that outlined his beliefs and goals
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The Third Reich
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the name given to the period of time when Germany was a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
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propaganda
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information that is biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
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censorship
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Stalin removed all words, images, and ideas from newspapers, radio, and other sources that did not conform to the views of the state
