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20 Cards in this Set
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Progroms
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organized violence against Jews
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Trans-Siberian Railway
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the world's longest continuous rail line began in 1891 and was done in 1904
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Duma
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Russia's first parliament, wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britain
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Provisional government
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temporary government
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Soviets
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local councils consisting of workers, peasants, soldiers
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Joseph Stalin
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cold, hard, impersonal, from 1922 to 127 Stalin began his ruthless climb to the head of the government
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Collective farms
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large, government-owned farms
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kulaks
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a class of wealthy peasants
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Great Purge
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a campaign of terror launched by Stalin
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Socialist realism
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artistic style that praised Soviet life and Communist values
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kuomintang
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(Nationalist Party) pushed for modernization and nationalization
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Sun Yixian
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first great leader of the kuomintang, was a physician, succeeded in overthrowing the last emperor of the Qing dynasty
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Mao Zedong
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young schoolteacher who had studied at Beijing University, supported the student protesters, later became a Communist leader
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May Fourth Movement
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the demonstrations spread to other cities and exploded into a national movement that workers, professionals etc. joined the cause
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Long March
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Communist Party's hazardous, 6,000-mile-long journey
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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leader of the independence movement who formed ideas, then went to law school in England, and had a religious approach
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Civil disobedience
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deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
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Mustafa Kemal
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brilliant commander who led Turkish nationalists in overthrowing the last Ottoman sultan
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Command economy
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system in which the government made all economic decisions
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Rasputin
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"holy man" mysterious man who claimed to have magical healing powers (helped Alexis who was Nicholas & Alexandra's son because he had hemophilia)
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