Chapter 14 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Organized violence against Jews
Pogroms
The world’s longest continuous rail line
Trans-Siberian Railway
Supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for radical change
Bolsheviks
Major leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the face
Lenin
Russia’s first Parliament
Duma
Magic man of Russia, assassinated
Rasputin
Temporary government
Provisional government
Steel, totalitarian leader of Russia, rising in power
Joseph Stalin
Government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life
Totalitarianism
System in which the government made all economic decisions
Command economy
Government owned farms
Collective farms
A class of wealthy peasants
Kulaks
A campaign of terror
Great Purge
An artistic style that praises Soviet life and Communist values
Socialist realism
The Nationlist Party in China
Kuomintang
The first leader of China’s Nationalist Party
Sun Yixian
Founder of the Chinese Communist Party, led the Long March, “The Great Helmsman”
Mao Zedong
Stated as a protest made up of angry students in Beijing and then spread across China
May Fourth Movement
6,000 mile long journey the Communist Party took to flee China
Long March
Peaceful leader of India, created civil disobedience, led the salt March
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
Civil disobedience
Brilliant commander that led Turkish Nationalist in overthrowing the last Ottoman sultan
Mustafa Kemal
Took over the Kuomintang after Sun died
Jiang Jieshi
Persian army officer, modernized his country, change his country to Iran, first ruler of Iran
Reza Shah Pahlavi
