Chapter 14 Notes For Modern World History

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Progroms

Back 1

organized violence against Jews

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Trans-Siberian Railway

Back 2

the world's longest continuous rail line began in 1891 and was done in 1904

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Duma

Back 3

Russia's first parliament, wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britain

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Provisional government

Back 4

temporary government

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Soviets

Back 5

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

Back 7

large, government-owned farms

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kulaks

Back 8

a class of wealthy peasants

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Great Purge

Back 9

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

Back 14

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)