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26 Cards in this Set
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Proletariat
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the industrail working class
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Bolsheviks
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radical revolutionary party in Russia, led by Lenin in the early 1900's
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Lenin
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1st major leader of the Bolsheviks
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Soviet
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local council consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers
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communist party
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offical party name of the Bolsheviks
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Joseph Stalin
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2nd leader of the Bolsheviks and "man of steel"
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Totalitarianism
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a gov't that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of life
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Great Purge
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campaign of terror directed @ elminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power
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command economy
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the gov't controls the economy
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5 year plan
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Stalin rationed the people's goods for the "betterment" of the gov't/country
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collective farm
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gov't controlled farms
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Kuomintang
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Chinese nationalist party, formed after 1912
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Sun Yixian
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1st leader of the Kuomintang
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Mao Zedong
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founder and eventual leader of the Chinese communist party
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Jiang Jieshi
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2nd leader of the Kuomintang
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Long March
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6,000 miles journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communist fleeing from the nationalists
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Coalition gov't
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a gov't controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties
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Weimar Republic
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the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933
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Great Depression
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severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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U.S. president during the Great Depression and most of WWII
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New Deal
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F.D.R's economic plan to recieve the U.S. economy during the Great Depression
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fascism
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a movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to it leader
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian leader and founder of the fascist party
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Adolph Hitler
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German fascist leader
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Nazism
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German form of fascism
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Mien Kampf
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a book of Hitler's beliefs and goals for Germany
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