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43 Cards in this Set
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Working Class and Peasants
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Proletariat
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People in Charge of Russia in Order
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Alexander III
Nicholas II Lenin Stalin |
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Against Menshaviks; For Communism in Russia
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Bolsheviks
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Became Leader of Soviet Union after Bolshevik Revolution
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Lenin
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Massacre outside the Czar's house wounded 1,000 and killed many
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Bloody Sunday
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Man claimed to have magical healing powers. Controlled Russia while Nicholas II was away.
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Rasputin
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Temporary Government
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Provisional Government
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Local Councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
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Soviets
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Father of Communism
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Marx
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Renamed Bolshevik Party
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Communist Party
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Comes into power after Lenin dies
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Stalin
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Leader of Bolsheviks
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Trotsky
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Government takes total, centralized control over every aspect of public and private life
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Totalitarianism
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5 Things Stalin Did Against Public
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Police Terror
Indoctrination Propaganda Censorship Religious/Ethnic Persecution |
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Campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power
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Great Purge
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People who do not believe there is a god
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Atheist
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Officially sponsered group of atheists spread propaganda attacking religion, supported Communism
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League of Militant Godless
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System in which the government made all economic decisions
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Command Economy
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Set by Stalin, set impossibly high quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil and electricity and caused people to starve to death
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Five Year Plans
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Large, government-owned farms
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Collective Farms
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Nationalist Party of China
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Kuomintang
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First Leader of China's Nationalist Party
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Sun Yixian
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Overthrew the Chinese Dynasty
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Nationlist Movement
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Sun Turns control over to powerful general:
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Yuan Shikai
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Territories promised to China given to this country instead:
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Japan
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Protest over the Treaty of Versailles on May 4, 1917, started Communism
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May Fourth Movement
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Founder of Chinese Communism
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Mao Zedong
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Heads Kuomintang after Sun dies
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Jiang Jieshi
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Communists flee Nationalists in 6,000 mile long trek
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Long March
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Attacks China during their civil war
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Japan
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Promised Independence from Great Britain in return for helping during WWI
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India
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Laws allowed government to jail prosecuters without trial for up to two years
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Rowlatt Acts
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Protest that turned into massacre where 400 Indians die and 1,200 are wounded
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Amritsar Massacre
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Leader of India's Independence Movement
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence to achieve independence
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Civil Disobedience
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Peaceful protest lead by Gandhi that marched to the seacoast 240 miles to make their own salt
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Salt March
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Successfully lead Turkish Nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and thier British backers, became president
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Mustafa Kemal
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Persia's leader
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Persia becomes:
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Iran
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Leader of Arabia
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Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud
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Arabia becomes:
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Saudi Arabia
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Place of most oil deposits on Earth
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Persian Gulf
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Temporary Parliament of Russia lasted 10 weeks
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Duma
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