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Chapter 12 and the Russian Revolution Flashcards

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What was their a big debate over?

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The League of Nations

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What happened to soldiers that were returning home?

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They lost their jobs and cost of living doubled

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Persuaded workers at his department store to join e department store employees union?

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Irving Fajans

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Prejudice against foreign born people: swept the nation

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Nativism

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A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

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Isolationism

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What was he main threat to America?

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Communism

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An economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship

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Communism

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What did communists do?

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Ended private properties and substituted ownership of factories, railroads, and businesses

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When did the panic begin?

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In 1919 after the czarist regime was overthrown

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Vladimir I Lenin’s followers

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Bolsheviks

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What did the Bolsheviks make?

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A new communist state

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12
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Wanted a revolution to abolish capitalism

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Reds

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When bombs were mailed to the government, who took action?

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General A. Mitchell Palmer

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When General A. Mitchell Palmer took control, what was it called?

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The red scare

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Who did Palmer appoint as his assistant?

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J. Edgar Hoover

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What did Palmer and Hoover do?

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Hunted down communists, socialists, and anarchists

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People who oppose any form of government

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Anarchist

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What was it called when Hoover and Palmer trampled people rights and homes?

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The Palmer Raids

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What did people believe that Palmer was trying to do?

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Look for a campaign issue for presidential aspirations

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What were people suspicious about after the red scare?

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Foreigners and immigrants

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Victims of a nativist attitude:

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeu Vanzetti

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What were Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s occupations?

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Shoemaker and Fish Peddler

23
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What were Sacco and Vanzetti charged with?

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Robbery and murder

24
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How were Sacco and Vanzetti killed, and why?

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By electric chair because they were “communists”

25
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What was the new attitude slogan?

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Keep America for Americans

26
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What group began to rise after WWI?

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The KKK

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Because of the red scare, people used what to harass people?

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Anti- communism

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What group reached 4.5 million people?

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The KKK

29
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What was the KKK devoted to?

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100% Americanism

30
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What led to a decrease in power?

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Criminal activity

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Established the max number of people who can enter the U.S. From a foreign country

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Emergency Quota act of 1921/ quota system

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Who did the quota system discriminate?

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Roman Catholics and Jews

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What was it know as when companies had to go back basic goods, since the war was over?

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Guns to Butter

34
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What did the American Federation of Labor pledge?

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To avoid strikes

35
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What were striking workers known as?

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Communists

36
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Summarize the Boston Police Strike:

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Officers were not given a raise since World War 1, and were fired when they asked for one. Police then Went on strike for the . Calvin Coolidge sent the national Guard out to calm the, down. All the police were fired and new ones were hired. Coolidge was known as a hero.

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Summarize the Steel Mill Strike:

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Workers in the steel mill wanted shorter hours and a raise. They also wanted more rights. Workers quit because union representatives didn’t meet with them. Strike breakers were hired, and then beaten by police officers. This was linked to communism.

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United Mine Workers of America leader

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John L. Lewis

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Summarize the Coal Miners Strike:

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Workers wanted shorter work days and higher pay, so Lewis put them on strike. General Palmer sent them back to work, instead. They stayed on strike for another month, until Wilson sent a judge to stop the dispute. The coal miners received a 27% raise, and was a national hero

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Why did Union membership drop?

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  1. Workforce immigrants willing to work in bad conditions
  2. There was no organization due to so many different languages
  3. Farmers reliant on them
  4. Unions excluded African Americans
41
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Czar Nicholas

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The last tsar of Russia under Romanov Rule

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Romanov family

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Family who ruled over Russia

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Anastasia

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Daughter of Czar Nicholas

Duchess of Russia

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Leon Trotsky

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Commissioner of war in the new social government

45
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Rasputin

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Magical advisor in the court of Czar Nicholas

Was attempted to be killed 7 times, but lived each time

46
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Who had hemophilia?

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The whole Romanov Family

47
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Alexi

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The son of Czar Nicholas who had hemophilia

48
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Vladimir Lenin

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Leader of the Bolsheviks and was made into an exile

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February Revolution

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A riot about lack of food, while the Romanov’s live in a castle
When the Romanov’s were overthrown

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October Revolution

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Begun because the Bolshevik party overtook the government buildings
When the government was overthrown

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