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20 Cards in this Set
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Autocracy |
a system of government by one person with absolute power
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Proletariat |
workers or working-class people
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Mensheviks |
members of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated by them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917
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Bolsheviks |
members of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party
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Abdicate |
renounce one's throne
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Totalitarianism |
centralized control by an autocratic authority
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Indoctrination |
Believe what they want you to know |
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Collective Farms |
a jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government
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Long March |
a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China
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Amritsar Massacre |
13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army
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Satyagraha |
a policy of passive political resistance
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Inflation |
a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
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Gestapo |
official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
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Nuremberg Laws |
two laws which excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights
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Fascism |
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power
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2 Duce |
a leader or dictator
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Black Tuesday |
October 29, 1929, On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed
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Dust Bowl |
an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move
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The Great Depression |
the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years
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New Deal |
designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression
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