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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 French Revolution | This political revolution began with a peasant revolt in France in 1789. The French sought to limit the monarch and strengthen the political voice of the common. First true social revolution. |
| Bastille | The political prison and armory stormed on July 14, 1789, by Partisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of troops at Versailles |
| Jacobins | Radical french group during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre |
| Paris Commune | The small government in Paris who wanted to resist the conservative leaders of France and tried to form their own government |
| Battle of Plassey | 1757; small British force of 3,200 defeated Mughal army more than 50000 |
| Indian Mutiny | Uprising in India during the rule of the British East India Company. Also known as the first Indian Wars of Independence. |
| Czars | Rulers of Russia until 1917; were supposedly appointed by God and saw themselves as "Gods" of Russia. |
| despotism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator also not restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition. |
| russo-japanese war | A 1904-1905 conflict between Russia and Japan, sparked by the two countries' efforts to dominate Manchuria and Korea. Russia in the end lost. |
| bolshevicks | a group of revolutionary russian marxists who took control of russias government in november 1917 |
| Vladimir Putin | elected president of Russia in 2000, launched reforms aimed at boosting growth and budget revenues and keeping Russia on a strong economic track. |
| Communism | a political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country |
| Czar Nicholas | leader of Russia during WW1. He was overthrown and executed during the Russian Revolution. |
| Soviet Union | A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. |
| Napoleon | A French general, political leader, and emperor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bonaparte crowned himself emperor in 1804. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia. After his final loss to Britain and Prussia at the Battle of Waterloo |
| Catherine the Great | This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia, created a new law code, and greatly expanded Russia |
| Socialist Party | set beliefs inspired by the writings of Karl Marx. They desired economic and political philosophy favoring public or government control of property and income. Their goal was to end the capitalist system, distribute wealth more equally, and nationalize American industries |
| Nationalism | the doctrine that nations should act independently to attain their goals |
| conservatism | a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes |
| liberalism | an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard |
| Russification | Policy imposing Russian customs and traditions on other people. |
| crimean war | a conflict, lasting from 1853 to 1856, in which the Ottoman Empire, with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea |
| socialism | system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc |
| Monarchy | an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority |
| Marathas | Militant Hindus who formed a breakaway state in the south and waged guerilla warfare against Aurangzeb and the Mughal Empire |
| Orientalism | Scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures, languages and people |
| Bharatha Janata | Hindu nationalist party in India |
| nation state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
| Karl Marx | 1818-1883. 19th century philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism. Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society. |
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