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20 Cards in this Set
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Autocracy |
A form of government in which the leader maintains absolute power |
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Proletariat |
Working class |
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Mensheviks |
Moderate group that wanted popular support for the revolution |
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Bolsheviks |
Radical group that supported a small number of revolutionaries that would lead the revolution and rule the country |
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Abdicate |
Give up |
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Totalitarianism |
A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life. |
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Indoctrination |
Instruction in the government's beliefs; to mold people's minds |
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Collective Farms |
Government owned farms that was taken from peasants |
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Long March |
100,000 Communists fled. It was a 6,000 mile journey to outrun the nationalists that lasted more than a year. All but 8,000 Communists died from hunger, cold,, exposure, and injuries |
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Amritsar Massacre |
General Reginald Dyer, banned public meetings, so when a large but peaceful crowd gathered in a walled field in the heart of the city, Dyer arrived with 50 soldiers and fired on a crowd of unarmed men, women, and children |
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Satyagraha |
A non-violent passive resistance that Mohandas Gandhi |
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Inflation |
Print more money and the value of the money goes down the more you make. |
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Gestapo |
The Nazi secret police |
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Nuremburg Laws |
Laws that took away the individual rights of Jews |
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Facism |
New militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader |
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Il Duce |
Leader of Italy |
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Black Tuesday |
When the stock market crashed |
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Dust Bowl |
A period of severe dust storms that caused thousands of families to abandon their farms |
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The Great Depression |
It was when unemployment rose, production, prices, and wages decreased, thousands of banks and businesses closed, and many farmers lost their land due to high debt |
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New Deal |
A program for reform that Franklin D. Roosevelt made. It wanted large public works projects, new government agencies gave financial help to businesses and farms, Welfare and relief programs were created, new banking regulations |
