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