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Interwar Period
Flashcards from Interwar Period
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Lenin's economic policy called? | NEP (New Economic Policy) |
| What does Lenin's NEP do for Russia? | Makes Russian farms and factories productive again |
| What does Russia become? | Soviet Union or U.S.S.R. |
| Who competes to replace Lenin when he dies? | Trotsky and Stalin, but Stalin wins and kills Trotsky |
| What is totalitarianism? | Government dominates every aspect of life with propaganda, indoctrination, and censorship |
| What was the Great Purge? | Stalin destroys perceived enemies, 8-13 million dead |
| What is a command economy? | Government makes all economic decisions |
| What was the Five-Year Plan? | Stalin's plan for industrialization, leads to shortage of consumer goods |
| Positive Aspects of Communism in Russia? | Better educations, women get advanced educations, women are treated equal to men |
| What was the Kumintang? | Nationalist Party of China |
| Who leads the Kumintang? | Sun Yixian, teaches nationalism, democracy, and economic security |
| Why did young nationalists follow Sun? | Europe did not follow through with promises made to China with the Treaty of Versailles |
| Who was Mao Zedong? | Forms Chinese communist party, hates Lenin for helping nationalists |
| Who was Jiang Jieshi? | Hates communism, nationalist leader after Sun, not many followers |
| Chinese Civil War? | Communists vs nationalists, Mao uses guerrilla army, communists make Long March, war suspended when Japan invades |
| Who made up the Congress Party and Muslim League? | Congress (Hindus) and Muslim (Muslims) |
| Why did the British pass the Rowlatt Acts? | Wanted to put tough laws on India because they are afraid of the radicals |
| Amritsar Massacre? | British opened fire on Indian crowd, killed 400 and injured 1,200, sparks nationwide anger |
| Who was Mohandas K. Gandhi? | Blended religions, powerful leader, urges civil disobedience, backed by Congress Party, boycott British things |
| Salt March? | 240 mile walk led by Gandhi to collect seawater for salt to protest Salt Acts |
| Government of India Act? | Passed by Parliament to give India local self-government and election reforms but does not lift tensions |
| Who was Mustafa Kemal? | Turkish general who overthrows Ottoman sultan and forms the modern Republic of Turkey, becomes Ataturk |
| Reza Shah Pahlavi? | Takes power and modernizes Persia (Iran) |
| Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud? | Unifies Arabia into Saudi Arabia, modernizes life, keeps Islamic traditions, no effort to bring democracy |
| Oil in Asia? | Exploration of Southwest Asia, new foreign investment, western nations try to dominate Asia |
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