- Amritsar massacre: slaughter were 1200 were wounded .
- Bolsheviks: a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russias gov. in nov. 1917.
- Jiang Jieshi: formerly called Chiang Kai-shek headed the Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yixian.
- Joseph Statin: a cold, hard and impersonal person who worked with Leon Trotsky.
- Lenin: major leader of the Bolsheviks whos name used to be Vladimir Ilyich.
- Mao Zedong: an assistant librarian at Beijing University.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi: Emerged as leader of the independence movement after the massacre at Amritsar.
- 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.)
- Rasputin: a self described "holy man" that claimed ti have magical healing powers.
- Sun Yat Sen: first great leader of the Nationalist party.
- The Long march: a hazardous, 6,000 mile long journey by communist forces.
- civil disobedience: the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence.
- communism: a form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by people.