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PVHS WH Unit 7
Vocabulary from Unit 7 - Russian Revolution & Rise of Totalitarianism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Czar | Russian king (before 1917) |
| censorship | to examine books, films, letters, etc., to remove anything that is considered offensive, morally harmful, or politically dangerous. |
| dictatorship | government by a ruler who has complete power |
| Bloody Sunday | An incident where Russian workers petitioned for rights and were fired upon by the Czar s soldiers, killing 500-1000 unarmed people. |
| Proletariat | the class of workers who own no property and work for wages, especially in factories. |
| Duma | Russia s first parliament |
| Pogroms | organized violence against Jews |
| Mensheviks | Marxist group that wanted a base of popular support for the revolution |
| March Revolution | food and fuel revolt led by textile workers in Petrograd, became serious when soldiers joined in the revolt |
| Trans-Siberian Railway | transportation link between Russian cities in west and Russian ports on the Pacific |
| Bolsheviks | Marxist group with a small group of extreme revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything to achieve change |
| Provisional government | temporary Russian government after Czar stepped down |
| Soviets | local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers |
| Red Army | The Bolshevik army |
| command economy | economic system where the government makes all the economic decisions |
| Bolshevik Revolution | Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take control of Russia |
| U.S.S.R. | Russia after 1922 – a union of separate republics all controlled from Moscow |
| Five Year Plan | Stalin’s economic policy emphasized industrial goods over consumer goods. |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | ends WWI for Russia |
| communism | The classless society that would exist after workers had seized power. |
| collective farms | large government owned farms that produced food for the state |
| White Army | fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War |
| Totalitarianism | a government that takes total centralized control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Kulaks | a class of wealthy peasants that resisted government control. Stalin sent many to work camps or had them executed |
| Great Purge | Stalin s elimination of all opposition, real or imagined, within the Soviet Union |
| Coalition Government | Government formed by several political parties to build a majority in a parliamentary system |
| Great Depression | a worldwide economic collapse that began in the United States when stock prices crashed |
| indoctrination | the process of molding people s minds to follow the government’s set of beliefs |
| Weimar Republic | Germany s attempt at a representative democracy after WWI |
| New Deal | President Roosevelt s plan to pull the United States out of the Depression by spending government money to put people to work. |
| propaganda | biased or incomplete information used to influence people s opinions of beliefs. |
| inflation | a general increase in prices in an economy |
| fascism | a militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state, and obedience to the leader |
| Socialist Realism | a style of art that praised Soviet life and Communist values. |
| The Dawes Plan | $200 million loan from U.S. bankers to stabilize German currency and strengthen its economy |
| Il Duce | Mussolini s nickname. Italian for the Leader |
| National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI) | Fascist group in Germany |
| SS (Schutzstaffel) | Hitler s bodyguards in the black uniforms |
| existentialism | A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions |
| Der Fuhrer | Hitler s nickname. German for the Leader. |
| self determination | The freedom of people to decide under which form of government they wish to live |
| Dada | The anti-art art movement |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler s book that set forth his beliefs and goals for Germany |
| Mandates | official instructions given to a person or organization, allowing them to do something |
| Surrealism | A 20th century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police |
| Theory of Relativity | Einstein s ideas about the interrelationship between time and space and between energy and matter |
| Jazz | A 20th century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians |
| Autocracy | a system of government in which one person or group has unlimited power |
| Lebensraum | living space... the additional territory that, according to Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin s plan to rebuild the Soviet economy, uses small scale capitalism instead of communism |
| orthodoxy | an idea or set of ideas that is accepted by most people to be correct and right |
| appeasement | to make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want |
| Rome/Berlin Axis | The alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany |
| Nationality | a large group of people with the same race, origin, language |
| Axis powers | In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
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