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Royal family of Russia Romanovs
Russo-Japanese War Japanese embarras Russia army
Bloody Sunday Innocent protesters are killed by Russian troops
Duma Russia's first parliament was created folloing the massacre to calm the people.
Rasputin Supposed "holy man" who wielded great influence over Alexandra, thus over Russia. Assassinated by a group of boyars
Mensheviks Slow change
Bolsheviks Quick change
Soviets Local Marxists councils seeking change and were angered at the decision to stay in the war
Bolshevik Revolution Led by Lenin
White Army All those that opposed the Bolsheviks
USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Led by Lenin
Stalin's economy Command economy- gov't makes all economic decisions
Five Year Plans Set goals for soviet productivity
Albert Einstein Theory of Relativity: Time and space are not consistant for matter that travels near the speed of light
Sigmund Freud Psychologist who stated that humans are not rational, but driven by the "unconscious," which is irrational
Yeats Irish poet who spoke a sense of darkness in the world
Jazz New style of music; orig. in America
Automobiles Became affordable after WWI. Affected where people lived.
Existentialism There is no meaning to life, a human creates their own meaning.
Existentialism created by Jean Paul Sarte- pushed for when aggressiveness, creativity, and action won the day.
Cubism Influenced by a type of African art, transformed natural shapes into geometric shapes
Cubism founded by Pablo Picasso
Surrealism Sought to link the world of dreams and reality
Surrealism founded by Salvador Dali
Sun Yixian Chinese nationalist helped found Koumintang (Nationalist party)
3 principles of Sun Yixian Nationalism, Democracy, Economic security
May Fourth Movement Protest over the Traty of Versailles, showed a commitment to strengthen china so that it would be respected
Communism in China Headed by Mao Zedong
Mohandas Gandhi Would lead the puch for Indian independence
Civil disobedience peacefully refusing to follow unjust laws
Mustafa Kemal Rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, first prez. of Turkey.
Persia Nationalist revolt threw the British out of Persia
Saud Family Unified the Arabian Peninsula into one country
Jiang Jieshi Leader to Koumintang
Weimar Republic REplaced the monarchy when Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicted and signed the Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Rep. economic mistakes Germany simply printed more money
Dawes Plan Sponsored by the US; it loaned money to Germany
Buying stocks on margin paying part of teh cost and borrowing the rest
Overproduction Factories flooded with goods, leading to a decrease in prices
Stock market collapse Prices went down, majority of America went bankrupt
Socialist Democracies Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Fascism Extreme nationalism, blind loyalty to the state, anti-democratic, anti-enlightenment, believed in aggressive foreign expansion
Italy invades Ethiopia Ethiopia begs the League of Nations to step in; with out america, the League of Nations is too weak to take action
German army begins to grow German troops enter the Rhineland- supposed to be neutral buffer between Germany and France
Appeasement The process of giving into an aggressor to maintain peace
Japan seizes China Seizes Manchuria, then goes for the rest of China
Pacifism Opposition to war
Isolationism Stay out of other country's affairs
Axis powers Italy, Japan, Germany
Winston Churchill Predicted that Hitler would never stop voluntarily and that appeasement was wrong
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt felt that action needed to be taken against Japan and Germany for American security
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