Terms 1 Flashcards

1
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Western Front

A

A line of trenches and fortifications in World War 1 that stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea. Along the line between Germany and France, really.

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2
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Marxism

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A famous socialist belief system

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3
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Armistice

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An agreement to stop fighting

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4
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Tzar/czar

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A Russian king

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5
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Proletariat

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Workers/the working class

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6
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Total war

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A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

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7
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Bolsheviks

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A group of the majority fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Party led by Lenin (communist party) that seized power in October’s revolution

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