Chapter 21 Flashcards
Became the first Labour Party prime minister of Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Self government for India
Statute of Westminster
The popular front managed to gain control of the government in 1936, naming who as prime minister
Leon Blum
A line that would stop any German attack
Maginot Line
Americans were looking solutions to their problems and elected this person to become President in 1932
Franklin Roosevelt
This president promoted his program of relief, recovery, and reform as what
New Deal
Attempted to suppress revolutionary ideas and activities
Alexander III
Organized government massacres which killed thousand of Jews living in Russia
Pogroms
Continued the harsh policies of Alexander III
Nicholas II
St. Petersburg organized themselves into a what
Soviet
To be elected by the people
Duma
was a religious fraud who won the favor of the empress
Rasputin
Tried his best to restore order
Aleksandr Kerensky
A brilliant young man who became involved in revolutionary activities
Vladimir Lenin
The communists organized the Red Army with the efforts of who
Leon Trotsky
Was a brilliant and egotistical man known for his fiery speeches.
Joseph Stalin
Eight hundred thousand Communist Party were murdered
Purges
The leader of the fascist party
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler
A secret police organization
Gestapo
Meaning of Mein Kampf
My Struggle
Broken Cross
Swastika
Asked Hitler to join a coalition as vice chancellor
Paul von Hindenburg
