history chapter 14 test prep Flashcards
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Great purge
Campaign in which Joseph Stalin would eliminate any Russian individual whom he saw as a threat to his wer, both real and imaginative
Totalitarianism
Govt control over every aspect of public and private life
Command economy
An economic system in which the govt makes all economic decisions
Five year plan
Plans outlined by JS in 1928 for the development of the soviet unions economy
Collective farm
A large govt controlled farm formed by combining many small farms
4 methods of control used by JS during his reign of power in Soviet Union at this time
Police terror
Indoctrination
Propaganda and censorship
Religious and ethnic persecution
How many people disappeared in Russia from late 1929- early1930 to 1953
8-13 million Russians
The jungle law of capitalism
The law of the exploiters- to beat the backward and the weak
Passive resistance
Gandhis idea that you don’t use body force but soul force and be passive
Dr king also used this method– effort to make change
The Salt Acts
British laws which stated that Indians could buy salt from from no other source than the govt, they also had to pay taxes on salt
Salt march
Peaceful protest by Gandhi and followers where they walked about 240 miles to sea coast where theybegan to collect seawater and let it evaporate to create salt
The communist party
A political party which practiced ideas of Karl Marx and VI Lenin originally Russian Bolshevik party
Shanghai
Chinese city where Chinese communist party was grouped in 1921 and in 1927 armed nationalist troops and gangs moved to here and killed many communist leaders and trade union members
Mao Zedong
Communist leader who believed that revolution would solve chinas problems
Bolsheviks
Group of revolutionary russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s govt in November 1917
Beijing university
Where Mao Zedong was an assistant librarian
Karl Marx
Father of communism who helped lead the Bolshevik party, founder of Marxism
Body force
Using external force or body parts, use of physical violence
Soul force
Method used by dr. King and Gandhi which was a peaceful protest
The Duma
Group that est. a provisional govt in which Alexander kerensky headed
Rasputin
“Holy man” who claimed to have magical healing powers and czarina Alexandra fell under his spell ( czar Nicholas 2 wife)
Czar Nicholas II
Ruler of Russia who was disliked and was eventually overthrown, main cause of Bloody Sunday
Mensheviks
Menshevik (a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution)
Alexander III
Ruler of Russia who turned Russia into a police state with spies and informers halted all reforms in Russia