| Bolsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russias gov. in nov. 1917. |
| Lenin | major leader of the Bolsheviks whos name used to be Vladimir Ilyich. |
| Rasputin | a self described "holy man" that claimed ti have magical healing powers. |
| communism | a form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by people. |
| Joseph Statin | a cold, hard and impersonal person who worked with Leon Trotsky. |
| Sun Yat Sen | first great leader of the Nationalist party. |
| Mao Zedong | an assistant librarian at Beijing University. |
| Jiang Jieshi | formerly called Chiang Kai-shek headed the Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yixian. |
| The Long march | a hazardous, 6,000 mile long journey by communist forces. |
| Amritsar massacre | slaughter were 1200 were wounded . |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | Emerged as leader of the independence movement after the massacre at Amritsar. |
| civil disobedience | the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence. |
| Mutsafa kemal | a brilliant commander who succesfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the greeks and their British backers. |
| Nationalism | the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation (people who they share culture and history, not king or empire.) |