Extra Terms for Examination three Flashcards
Alexander Kerensky
-lead the provisional government making it more conservative and authoritarian to maintain law, order, and protection of property
-his support for the war lost all credit with army which was the only force that could have him saved from Russian government party
Leon Trosky, Bolshevik, and Vladimir Lenin
-brilliantly executed the Bolshevik execute of power
-seized government buildings and arrest provisional government members
War Communism & Russian Civil War
the application of total war concept to a civil conflict. they seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work
Pablo Picasso
famous Spanish painter that Established cubism which was an artistic approach concentrated on a complex geometry of zig zagging lines and sharply overlapping lines
New objectivity
emerged from german artist experiencces in the Great War and the Weimar Republic. paintings from Otto dix was provocative & emotionally disturbing, and harshly satirical
Dadaism
attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior, delighting in outrageous conduct,
Surrealism
Salvador Dali painted fanatic world of wild dreams and complex symbols
Skyes Picot Agreement
Britain and France agreed that France would receive modern day Lebanon, syria, and much of southern turkey; and Britain would get Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan. the contradicted British promises concerning Arab independence after the war
Balfour Declaration
made Palestine the national home of jews
Mustafa Kemal, “Ataurk”
-considered the young father of modern turkey
-felt sympathetic to the young Turkish movement and began to unify Turkish resistance
-believed turkey should modernize and secularize along western lines
-called for the national assembly to dispose of the sultan and establish a republic a republic for him to be president
- crushed demands for independence of ethnic minority in Turkey
-decreed a separation of church and state
-struck down entrench patterns of behavior, had the European model govern things, had the Arabic script replaced withe the Turkish alphabet based on roman letters
Benito Mussolini and the March on Rome
with the government breaking down in 1922, thirty thousand racists marched on Rome threatening the king and demanding the he appoint Mussolini prime minister