27 war and revolution KEY TERMS Flashcards

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three emperors league

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A.Hungary, Germany and Russia created in 1873

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia were checking Germany’s vague but real aspirations 1914

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” the sick man of Europe “

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ottoman empire

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Pan Slavism

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encouraged the serbs, bosnians, and slovenes, and croats to seek a single political entity in southern europe

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First Balkan War 1912

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Austria created Albania and landlocked Serbia from getting port access to the Adriatic Sea. It was Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria versus Turks in the Balkans

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Second Balkan War 1913

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Serbia and Greece formed an alliance against Bulgaria and the war began in 1913 when Bulgaria ordered his troops to attack Serbian and Greece in Macedonia

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Petrograd soviet

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Workers and soldiers in a mass meeting of 2-3thousand and watched the provisional government and issued its own radical orders

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Army Order No. 1

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Issued to all Russian military forces, it stripped officers of their authority and placed power to common soldiers; led to a collapse in discipline

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Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924

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socialist leader stressed capitalism can only be destroyed by violent revolution

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bolsheviks

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majority group

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mensheviks

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minority group

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constituent assembly met for one day in January 18, 1918

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Bolsheviks promised this to draw up a new constitution from free elections; fed the flames for civil war

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war communism

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application of the total war concept to a civil conflict; they seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, required everyone to work

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Cheka

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Tsarist secret police which sowed fear and silenced opposition

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League of Nations

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woodrow wilson created it as an idealistic and democratic international cooperation to resolve territorial disputes (France, Britain, USA)

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Treaty of Versailles

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Brit and France mandates created for former colonies and territories of the central powers

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Article 231

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blamed Germany for the war, Germany was forced to pay huge reparations to France/Brit

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Easter Rebellion

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Irish republicans staged an insurrection in England in 1916

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Balfour Declaration

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November 1917 made by British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour, declared that Britain favored a “National Home for the Jewish People” in Palestine

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Atatürk

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means “Father of the Turks”

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Mustafa Kemal

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Established a republic, made himself president, created a one party system for Turkey, wanted to westernize and modernize Turkey; women gained rights

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significance/location of league of nations

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Goal was to end WW1 in peace and was created in Paris Peace conference of 1919

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significance of easter rebellion

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signified the start of the republican revolution in Ireland

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Georges Clemenceau

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French Prime minister apart of the League of Nations, wanted to create a buffer zone between france and germany

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significance of Georges Clemenceau

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played key role in negotiating treaty of versailles

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herbert spencer

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eng philosopher known for doctrine of Social Darwinism

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Boxer rebellion

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AN anti-foreign/anti Christian uprising in China toward the end of the Qing dynasty; uprisings made it hard to control the Chinese

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Petrograd Soviet

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workers and soldiers led by Leon TRosky; overthrew provisional govt

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Leon TRosky

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leader of Petrograd soviet, was the second most imp figure of October REvolution

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SOS of Cheka

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first of numerous soviet government apparatuses created to control the people

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april theses

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written by Vladimir Lenin; a document of 10 pts focusing on Bolshevik efforts on opposing provisional government, called for social revolution