Chapter 14 Vocab

Question 1

Proletariat

Answer 1

The workers.

Question 2

Bolsheviks

Answer 2

Supported a smaller # of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change.

Question 3

Lenin

Answer 3

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov’s adopted name.

Question 4

Rasputin

Answer 4

A self-described “Holy Man” who claimed to have magical healing powers.

Question 5

Provisional Government

Answer 5

Temporary Government.

Question 6

Soviet

Answer 6

Local councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers.

Question 7

Communist Party

Answer 7

Bolsheviks Party rename, came from Karl Marx.

Question 8

Joseph Stalin

Answer 8

Notable man in Communist Party, he was cold, hard, and impersonal.

Question 9

Totalitarianism

Answer 9

Government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life.

Question 10

Great Purge

Answer 10

A campaign of terror directed ay eliminating anyone who threatened the power of Stalin.

Question 11

Command Economy

Answer 11

A system in which the government made all economic decisions Stalin planned.

Question 12

Five-Year Plan

Answer 12

Stalin’s plans for the development of the Soviet Unions economy.

Question 13

Collective Farm

Answer 13

26 million private farms made into large government owned farms.

Question 14

Kuomintang

Answer 14

Nationalist Party.

Question 15

Sun Yixian

Answer 15

Nationalist Party’s first great leader.

Question 16

May Fourth Movement

Answer 16

Bunch of people gathered in cities for a revolution.

Question 17

Mao Zendong

Answer 17

An assistant librarian at Beijing University, was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party.

Question 18

Jiang Jieshi

Answer 18

Became head of Kuomintang after Sun Yixian died in 1925.

Question 19

Long March

Answer 19

Hazardous, 6,000 mile long march that 100,000 communist forces used to flee after they suffered defeat.

Question 20

Rowlatt Acts

Answer 20

Laws that allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years.

Question 21

Amritsar Massacre

Answer 21

A slaughter of 400, that cause anger all across India over a meeting, as meeting were not allowed. Meaning Britain could attack them. Ten thousand people were at the meeting.

Question 22

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Answer 22

The massacre set the stage for him to become the leader of independence movement.

Question 23

Civil Disobedience

Answer 23

The deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence.

Question 24

Salt March

Answer 24

Peaceful protest where people made their own sea salt by taking sea water, evaporating it, and collecting the salt.

Question 25

Mustafa Kemal

Answer 25

A brilliant commander who successfully lead the Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers.