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Holocaust
War & Revolution in Russia and Germany, Treaty of Versailles
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bolsheviks | A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. |
| Vladimir IIyich Ulianov (Lenin) | Was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. |
| Czar Nicholas II | The last tsar of Russia. He was deposed during the Russian Revolution and executed by the Bolsheviks. |
| mutinied | Revolt or rebellion against constituted authority, especially by sailors against their officers. |
| czar | An emperor or king. |
| Karl Marx | German founder of modern communism, in England from 1849. He developed his theories of the class struggle and the economics of capitalism. German economist, philosopher, and socialist. |
| communism | An ideological concept or system of society in which the collective community shares ownership in resources and the means of production. In theory, such societies provide for equal sharing of all work and benefits. |
| USSR | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. |
| Reichstag | The German Parliament under the Weimar Constitution. It was purely ornamental during Hitler's dictatorship. |
| upheaval | A violent or sudden change or disruption to something. |
| reluctantly | Unwilling and hesitant; disinclined. |
| Kaiser | The German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| optimistic | Hopeful and confident about the future. |
| monarchy | A form of government in which supreme authority is vested in a single and usually hereditary figure, such as a king, and whose powers can vary. |
| republic | A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president, rather than a monarch. |
| Friedrich Ebert | A German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. |
| armaments | Military weapons and equipment. |
| revolution | A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. |
| armistice | A formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, since it might be just a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. |
| obligations | An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment. |
| spectacle | A visually striking performance or display. |
| democracy | A government in which decisions are voted upon by the public. The only example of a true democracy has been Athens, and the United States is a democratic republic. |
| vowed | Solemnly promise to do a specified thing. |
| unceasing | Not ceasing or stopping; continuous |
| proletariat | Workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (wage-earners). |
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