Revolutions Flashcards

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Russian revolution

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  • 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
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China’s Communist

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  • 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
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • Leader of France after French Rev.

- Used continental system to expand France but fell from grace

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Adolf Hitler

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  • Leader of Germany in 1930s during WW2

- Nazis “der fuhrer”

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Mohandoas Gandhi

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  • Found Indian communist party in south Africa and ashram

- Gave Home rule for india in 1945

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Benito Mussolini

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-Fascist dictator ruler in Italy during ww2

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Woodrow Wilson

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  • US president after WW1 and created fourteen points during treaty of versaille
  • created League of nations
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Neville Chamberlain

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  • British prime minister during WW2
    • Believed Munich conference would stop Hitler from annexing other countries
    • said “peace for our time”
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Joseph Stalin

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  • “man of steel” leader of USSR after Lenin

- totalitarian leader of communist russia during ww2

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Mao Zedong

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  • 1949 won control of china and turned it into communist

- reshaped China based on Marxism Socialism

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Archduke Ferdinand

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  • Austrian hungary archduke who was assisinated in 1914 by Serbian black hand nationalist
  • trying to annex the balkans
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Joseph Goebbel

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  • Hitler’s media ruler for propaganda

- said: “Propaganda made the third reich”

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Franklin Roosevelt

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  • President of US who decided to provide arms to Allies in WW2
  • joined undeclared naval war with Hitler
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Karl Marx

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  • Economist who created Marxism

- Believed in to extreme communism

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Adam Smith

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-Economist who supported capitalism

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Winston Churchill

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-British prime minister during WW2 and said never gave up Britain in battle of Britain

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Industrial revolution

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-beginning to make goods by hand in 18th century by England

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Post Great War Depression

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Employment spread in Europe and economies crashed