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World History Chap T
World History Chapter Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proletariate | The workers rule the country |
| Bolsheviks | Supported a small number of commited revolutionaries willing to sacrafice everything |
| Vladimir Lenin | Major leaders of bolsheviks |
| Raspution | Czarian Alexandria fell under the influence of him, he said he was a holy man and claimed to have magical healing powers |
| Provisional Government | Established by the leaders of the "Duma", it was a temporary government |
| Soviets | Local counsels consisting of workers, peasents, and soilders |
| Communist Party | Bolsheviks renamed party to the communist party |
| Joseph Stalin | he was an bolshevik, he was cold, hard, and pmpersable |
| Totalitarism | a government that takes total centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Great Purge | Stalin launched a campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power |
| Command Economy | A system in which the Government made all economic decisions |
| 5 year plans | Outlined by Stalin, they set impossibly high quotas or numerical goals to increase the output of steal,coal, oil, and electricity |
| Collective Farms | Large Government owned farms that hundreds of families worked on called collectives producing food for the state |
| Kuomintang | "The Nationalist Party" |
| Sun Yixain | the 1st great leader of the nationalist party |
| Mao Zedong | an assistant librarian and Beijing university and he became chinas greatest revolution leader |
| Jiang Jieshi | Headed the Kuomintiang after Sun Yixain Died |
| Long March | A hazardous 6 mile long journey, communist forces made between 1934-1935 |
| Civil Disobedience | the deliberate and public refusal to obey and unjust law and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence endorced by congeress |
| Mohandas K. Ganghi | the massacre at Amritsar set the stage for him to emerge as the leader of the independence movement |
| Amritsar massacre | Killing by British troops of nearly 400 indians gathered at amritsar to protest the Rowaltt Acts |
| Rowaltt Acts | passed by the British in 1919, allowed government to jail protesters without trial for as long as 2 years |
| Salt March | A peaceful protest against the salt acts in 1930 n India, Gandhi led his followers on a 240 mile walk to the sea to make their own salt |
| Mustafa Kemal | Successfully led turkish nationalist in fighting back greeks and their British backers |
| Sigmund Freud | Treated patients with phsycological problems; had revolutionary ideas like Einstein |
| Theory of relativity | Einsteins idea of relative motion |
| Albert Einstein | Offered startling new ideas on space,time,energy and matter |
| Existentialism | A philosophy that there is no universal meaning to life |
| Fredrich Nietzsche | German philosopher thought of western ideas sucj as reason, democrocy and progress had stifled peoples creativity and actions |
| Surrealism | an art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life |
| Jazz | New popular music style emerged in U.S |
| Charles Lindbergh | American pilot who took a solo trip, 33 hours from New York to Paris |
| Coalition Government | Temporary alliance of serveral parties |
| Weimar Republic | Germanys new democratic government set up in 1919 |
| Great Depression | Stock market crashed, unemployment rates rose and wages declined a long buisness slump |
| Fascism | A new militant political movement emphasizing loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader |
| Benito Mussolini | Newspaper editor and politician promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its around forces |
| Adolf Hitler | Political leader who led the Nazis in Germany |
| Nazism | German brand of facism |
| Mein Kampf | The book Hitler rote while he was in jail stating his beliefs and goals |
| Lebensraum | Living Space |
| Appesement | giving in to an aggresor to keep peace |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan in alliance with one another |
| Francisco Franco | A general in the CIvil war |
| Isolationism | the belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided |
| Third Reich | The German Empire |
| Munich Conference | meeting of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy in Munich Germany |
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