Revolutions Flashcards
Russian revolution
- After total rule by czars, marxism, and industrialization, revolutions began occuring
- Split Russia into Molskeviks and Bolsheviks(led by Lenin)
- March Revolution caused Czar Nicolas II to step down
- created provisional gov’t with Soviets until Bolsheviks took over
- White army vs. Red army who challenges Bolshviks
- 1921 Red Army wins and Lenin rules
China’s Communist
- After WW2 China had civil war ags. communist and Nationalist
- Mao Zedong was comm. leader in northern china
- Jieshi nationalist leader in southern china
- US aided them
- 1946-1949 Revolution ends and comm. red army wins control of China
- signs treaty with Russia
Napoleon Bonaparte
- Leader of France after French Rev.
- Used continental system to expand France but fell from grace
Adolf Hitler
- Leader of Germany in 1930s during WW2
- Nazis “der fuhrer”
Mohandoas Gandhi
- Found Indian communist party in south Africa and ashram
- Gave Home rule for india in 1945
Benito Mussolini
-Fascist dictator ruler in Italy during ww2
Woodrow Wilson
- US president after WW1 and created fourteen points during treaty of versaille
- created League of nations
Neville Chamberlain
- British prime minister during WW2
- Believed Munich conference would stop Hitler from annexing other countries
- said “peace for our time”
Joseph Stalin
- “man of steel” leader of USSR after Lenin
- totalitarian leader of communist russia during ww2
Mao Zedong
- 1949 won control of china and turned it into communist
- reshaped China based on Marxism Socialism
Archduke Ferdinand
- Austrian hungary archduke who was assisinated in 1914 by Serbian black hand nationalist
- trying to annex the balkans
Joseph Goebbel
- Hitler’s media ruler for propaganda
- said: “Propaganda made the third reich”
Franklin Roosevelt
- President of US who decided to provide arms to Allies in WW2
- joined undeclared naval war with Hitler
Karl Marx
- Economist who created Marxism
- Believed in to extreme communism
Adam Smith
-Economist who supported capitalism
Winston Churchill
-British prime minister during WW2 and said never gave up Britain in battle of Britain
Industrial revolution
-beginning to make goods by hand in 18th century by England
Post Great War Depression
Employment spread in Europe and economies crashed
