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
