interwar period vocab Flashcards
October Revolution
Otherwise known as the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin launched a coup d’état against the Dumas provisional government. There was almost no bloodshed. The Bolsheviks as well as their allies took over important buildings as well as other strategic locations. A new government was made with Lenin as the head and the first dictator. This also became the world’s first communist state.
Lower/working class of Russia, they were treated badly and they led the protests of bloody Sunday. Miss treatment of the __ led to many conflicts within Russia
Proletariat
Belonged to the red army. Communist party of the Soviet Union led by Lenin
Bolsheviks
Formed by the Duma a government that fought with the Petrograd soviet. Assembled by a group of leaders from Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class.
provisional government
A government that would be ruled directly by councils of soldiers, peasants and workers.
soviet
Sprung after the failed rule of Tsar Nicholas II
communist party
Bloody Sunday
People were upset and a group of workers decided to lead a march to the czars Winter Palace. Imperial forces opened fire on them first, killing/ injuring hundreds of the protesters. This massacres led to riots and strikes of people who were angry that this had happened.
February revolution
Protestors that wanted bread took over the Russian capital of Petrograd. People stay put even after battles with the Police. Troops were eventually taken back and the Tsar dissolved the Duma that same day. The revolution was marked successful when regiments of the Petrograd joined the protestors. When the government resigned, The Duma formed a government that would compete with the Petrograd Soviet for control of the rebellion. Csar Nicholas II left the throne and gave it to his brother, which when he refused the czarist autocracy ended. A new provincial government that was tolerated by the Petrograd Soviet took over.
The Nationalist party of China
Kuomintang
A national movement between Workers, Shopkeepers, and professionals to show the Chinese people’s commitment to making a strong and modern nation.
May Fourth Movement
A response to Jiang gathering an army of 700,000 men that surrounded the Communists mountain stronghold. 100,000 Communist forces fled and went on a dangerous 6,000 mile-long journey, this was called ____
Long March
authorized the British government to imprison any person suspected of terrorism or revolutionary activity without trial and to detain them for up to two years
Rowlatt Acts
withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
Boycott
British Indian Army troops opened fire on thousands of people who had gathered in a city in India, killing an estimated 379 people and injuring 1,200.
Amritsar Massacre
The deliberate and public refusal to obey an order or law seen as unjust.
civil disobedience
A march led by Ghandi where people go to the Sea to evaporate the water and get salt. Used to protest buying from the British.
salt march
A declaration by the British that promised to support “the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people.” This conflicted with what the British had promised the Arabs.
Balfour Declaration
a secret deal between the British and the French that said they would split up the Middle East into areas of direct and Indirect control.
Sykes-Picot agreement
A system of office orders from the U.N that gave France and Britain permission to take over land in the Middle East. The League of Nations gave French mandates that gave them control over Syria and Lebanon. Britain had mandates over Palestine, Iraq, and Transjordan.
Mandate system
a cabinet of a government in which several parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.
coalition government
the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic
Weimar Republic
The most serious economic depression in U.S. history. It began in October 1929 when the American stock market dropped suddenly, or “crashed.” Most stocks became worthless, causing investors to lose huge sums of money.
Great Depression
Value of money drops, money becomes worthless
Inflation
a day (October 29 )where 16 million shares were traded and became useless. Those who had borrowed money to buy their stocks lost their stocks which caused a problem for them because they would not be able to pay back the loans that they had taken out.
Black Tuesday
totalitarianism 7 key traits
Ideology, state control of individuals, Methods of Enforcement, Modern tech, state of control, dictatorship and one party rule, dynamic leader
was a purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. Elimination of political opponents, consolidation of power. It was a large-scale “repression” of the more wealthy peasants (kulaks). Ethnic minorities were murdered. ( remove Trotskys influence )
Great Purge
Government makes all decisions of economic life
Command Economy
are centralized and integrated national economic programs. Joseph Stalin implemented the first ______ in the Soviet Union in 1928. Most communist states and several capitalist countries subsequently have adopted them.
Five-year plan
Large government owned farms
collective farm
limiting what is shown to the people
censorship
false information to get ppl under your control
propoganda
the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
indoctrination
Governments controlled by one part with the party being dominate by one leader
Fascism
Party led by Hitler that belived Germans were supperior
Nazism
A book written by hitletr that summarized his ideas.
Mein Kampf
Government has total control of peoples life
totalitarianism
During the Russian Revolution, ____ led the Bolshevik Party, which toppled the government in 1917.
Lenin
a mysterious man who had a strong influence on the Russian royal family during the Revolution. Despite people gossiping about his questionable actions, he had a lot of power and made important decisions for the rulers.
Rasputin
Came after Lenin in Russia, wanted to increase power of the soviet union. Control of communist party
Stalin
Founder of chinese communist party. revolution to rural places using peasants
Mao zedong
Head of chinese nationalist party after Yixian died. Fought agaisnt the communists and for the socialist economy.
jiang jieshi
Military commander and leader of the republic in turkey
Mustafa Kamal
First big leader of the Koumintang/nationalist party in china 3 principals of peace ?
sun Yixian, Nationalisn, democracy, peoples livelyhood
led the protests in india against the british
Gandhi
Emperor and Military Dictator of Japan wanted to rid Japan of foreign influence and build a strong empire
heiko tojo
Leader of the Nazi party in Germany. Used Nazism
hitler
Totalitarian leader of Italy used Fascism
Mussolini
