chapter 14 and 15.2 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI |
| Alexander III | A Russian Czar who was the son of Alexander II. He left Russia in fear of being killed. |
| Soviet | Councils of workers and soldiers |
| Bloody Sunday | In Russia 1905 Russian soldiers inadvertently opened fire on demonstrators, turning them against the Czar. Helped start the revolution |
| Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) |
| Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
| Czar Nicolas | A Czar that ran away when his power was at stake |
| Duma | Russian national legislature |
| Rasputin | A claimed magic holy man that was helping run the gov't with Alexandra (who was the Czars wife) he had almost all the power. |
| Provisional Government | The temporary government established after the abdication of Nicholas II (1881-1970), from March until Lenins takeover In November 1917. |
| March Revolution | March 200,000 workers protested high prices, soldiers joined protests and shot officers. Czar stepped down, |
| Five Year Plan | The 5 year plan to reform Russia's economy |
| Great Purge | The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union. |
| Collective Farming | A series of farms put together to make one big farm with a lot of workers. With all the crops collected by the government |
| Totalitarianism | When the government has complete control. |
| Long March | A 6000-mile, year-long trek of Mao and his followers to escape the non-Communist Guomindang; symbol of Communist heroism |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) |
| Sun Yixian | Overthrew the Qing Dynasty. He was the first president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912 |
| Kuomintang | Nationalist Party in China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader of China |
| May Fourth Movement | When a bunch of students protested Chinese government. |
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