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Alexander Kerensky
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Headed the provincial government in 1917 refused to redistribute confiscated land holdings to the peasants thought fighting the war was a national duty
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Algeciras Confrence
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Provoke Germany. backfired on Germany over this issues of the Morocco crisis.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Heir to the austro-hungarian throne. his assassination in Sarajevo started ww1.
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Army Order #1
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Issued by the Petrograd Soviet. stripped officers of their authority and place the power in the hands of elected committees of common soldiers.
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Balkan Wars
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Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria to Macedonia from the Ottomans in 1912. Serbia then fall Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War in 1913. Austria intervene to stop the war.
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Battle of the Marne
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Major French victory against the invading German army at the start of ww1. in reality, loss Germany the war.
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Battle of Verdun
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1916. German assault on the French fortress. Turned into a battle of attrition. France won.
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Belgian Congo
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Exploited by Leopold the second of Belgium under the Berlin Act. Leopold was supposed to act as a trustee. He violated the agreement and stripped the country of its resources.
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Berlin conference
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1885. Meeting called by Bismarck. Lay down the rules for conquest of Africa. European countries holding a coast inland. occupation must be with real troops. must give notice of which countries were occupied. Started the Scramble for Africa.
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Black hand
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Ultra nationalist, Serbian society. Secretly supported by the members of the Serbian government.
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Bloody Sunday
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1905. Russian soldiers inadvertently open fire on demonstrators, turning them against the tsar. Possibly the start of the revolution.
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Boer war
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English vs Dutch settlers in South Africa. England won 1899 - 1902
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Bolsheviks
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Majority group
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Cecil Rhodes
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Born in 1853. Played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a fine answer, statesman, an empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism.
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Charles I
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1887 - 1922. last Austrian Emperor. abdicated November 1918 the next day Austria was declared the Republic as was Hungary.
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Cheka
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Secret police set up by Lenin. I rested "enemies of the revolution"
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Congress of Berlin
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1878. Assembly of representatives from Germany, Russia, Hungary, Britain, France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Meeting was to organize the countries of the Balkans. Led to greater nationalism.
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Conscription
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Force recruitment into the army to meet the needs of war.
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Decembrist revolt
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Uprising in Russia. Mainly soldiers. First manifestation of modern revolutionary movements inspired by ideology.
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Dume
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Popular Parliament
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East India Company
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Dutch trading company worried about colonizing the world.
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Entente Cordial
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Britain gain control of Egypt. France gain control of Morocco. Not a written Alliance, only an agreement. Basically against Germany.
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Fashoda Incident
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Conflict in Africa between France and Britain
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Fourteen Points
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President Wilson's peace proposal in 1918 stress national self-determination and the rights of small countries. Freedom of the Seas and free trade. Clemenceau said, "God only had ten"
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Fundamental laws
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Issued by the Russian government in 1906. The tsar retained power the Duma was elected by universal male suffrage. The upper house could pass laws but the Tsar had veto power.
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Fyodor Dotoevsky
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Russian novelist
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Gavrilo Princip
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The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria. Member of the black hand
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General Kornilov
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Wanted to be the savior of Russia. Tried to stage a coup d'etat. demanded the resignation of all ministers. Kerensky ordered him to turn over command, but the soldiers refused to follow him.
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad, 1902. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experience in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo.
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Imperialism
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One who dominates the political, social, and economic life of another.
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Isolationism
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Not becoming involved in global or regional event.
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Joseph Joffre
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French General. Let the French at the Battle of the Marne.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Germany. Dismissed Bismarck in 1890. Did not renew Bismarck's treaty with Russia and forced Russia to look for another ally, France.
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Kronstadt Revolt
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Rebellion of previously loyal sailors at the Naval Base. Suppressed by the military. After the long, let me introduce the new you can on the policy (NEP)
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Kruger Telegram
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1806. William II sent Kruger of Transvaal a congratulatory telegram upon hearing the failure of the Jamison Raid. Alerted Britain of the dangers from Germany.
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League of Nations
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1919. Allies work out terms for peace with Germany. Precursor to the United Nations.
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Leopold II
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1865-1909 king of Belgium . Sent Henry Stanley to Africa.
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Lusitania
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Sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 139 Americans killed. Forest Germany to stop submarine warfare.
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Mensheviks
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Minority group
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MIR
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Peasant village assembly responsible to the government.
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Morocco crisis
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1911. After the French received Morocco, Germany demanded an international conference. German bullying Forest England and France closer. Germany gain nothing.
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Nicholas II
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The last Tsar of Russia. Wanted supreme rule of army and government. Let the armies to defeat. Forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Duma
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October manifesto
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Issued in Russia because of fear of a general strike. Granted. All rights and a popular Parliament the Duma.
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"Peace,Bread and Land"
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Lenin's slogan in the Revolution. Peace from the war;land for the peasants;food for all.
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Protectorate
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Relationship between two states in which the stronger state guarantees to protect the weaker state from external aggression in return for a full or partial control of its domestic and foreign affairs.
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Sphere of Influence
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In international politics, the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over for an area or territory.
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Treaty of Brest~Litovsk
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Litovsk treaty between the Bolshevicks and Germany to get Russia out of the war. Russia lost 1/3 of the population. Height of German success in WWI. Signed by Lenin.
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V.I. Lenin
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Believed in Marxist Socialism: 1) believed capitalism must be destroyed 2) a social revolution was possible in backward Russia 3) the need for highly trained workers v partly controlled by revolutionaries like himself.
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White man's burden
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1899. Rudyard Kipling's poem. Used as justification of imperialism.
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Woodrow Wilson
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U.S. President, who led USA in WWI. He proposed 14 points. He attended the peace conference at Versailles.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Negotiated by the Big Three. Germany was stripped of colonies and Alsace-Lorraine given back to France. Poland was reconstituted as a state. Polish corridor would split Prussia from Germany. The Saar region would be French for 15 years. Heavy repercussions ( not specified until later)
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Zimmerman telegram
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German Arthur Zimmerman set a telegram to the German minister in Mexico City promising the Mexican president German help if Mexico went to war with the US. the telegram was intercepted and decoded by the British. Shocked the American public.
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