the interwar years

Question 1

autocracy

Answer 1

form of government; total power

Question 2

proleteriat

Answer 2

the working class

Question 3

bolsheviks

Answer 3

radicals whom supported small revolutionaries that were EXTREMELY willing to sacrifice everything.

Question 4

who was the major leader of the bolsheviks?

Answer 4

Lenin

Question 5

Lenin

Answer 5

• ruthless, but dynamic leader
• fled russia to avoid the government
• wanted violent reconstruction

Question 6

Lenin

Answer 6

• ruthless, but dynamic leader
• fled russia to avoid the government
• wanted violent reconstruction

Question 7

‘PEACE, LAND, AND BREAD!’

Answer 7

lenin

Question 8

Brest-Litovsks

Answer 8

Lenin signs the Brest Lisovsks to end Russia’s war w. Germany -made them lose many territories
- put Russia out of the war

Question 9

russo-japanese war

Answer 9

the two countries fight over Korea & Manchuria, but sign a treaty to not touch it.
russia breaks the promise & japan doesnt hold back bro.
[note: this loss, and many others, caused russians to want to revolt. the repeated lost made them dissapointed.

Question 10

bloody sunday

Answer 10

• Nicholas II’s guards reign fire amongst citizens who were rioting peacefully for a better way of life. killed thousands.

Question 11

Duma

Answer 11

congress. parliment.

Question 12

Rasputin

Answer 12

czarina alexandra was wooed by him- he ‘healed’ her son who had hemophilia and used her to get more power for him and his bestiessss

Question 13

what was the problem w. the ‘whites’ in the civil war?

Answer 13

the reds were one minority, while the whites were everyone else and often didn’t agree with e/o

Question 14

how many died in the civil war?

Answer 14

14 million

Question 15

who wins the civil war- and what drawback do they now have to deal with?

Answer 15

the reds [bolsheviks]; inherits a mess of an economic/social system

Question 16

NEP

Answer 16

new economic policy; state controls large industries with a little capitalism

Question 17

what happened when Lenin suddenly passed away?

Answer 17

power struggle- Trotsky and Stalin fight for leader of the communists
Stalin takes over & turns Russia into a totalitarianism state [he gives himself shiz ton of power

Question 18

what was the goal of Stalin’s numerous 5-year plans?

Answer 18

• turn soviet union into an industrial power
• just a ton of industrialization
• command economy

Question 19

command economy

Answer 19

gov. makes all economic decisions

Question 20

what was the result of the five year plans?

Answer 20

major developments in factories, but workers have terrible conditions- neglected

Question 21

as stalin’s rule continues, how does the agricultural industry respond?

Answer 21

• peasants are forced to give up land
• gov focuses on their international market over internal market

Question 22

who were kulaks? what did they do?

Answer 22

kulaks: wealthy peasants
- most kulaks would resist the policies put on them, but the gov. would brutally force them.

Question 23

how does Stalin ensure obedience within the Soviet Union?

Answer 23

secret union, propaganda with nationalism as the main focus, abolishment of religion [all were atheist]- religious icons, books, and churches were violently dealt with & changed.

Question 24

benefits of stalin’s totalitarianism

Answer 24

education; it was free! but what they learned was thoroughly filtered for stalin’s benefit. ++free childcare
women got equal rights and were allowed to work + go to school

Question 25

what was stalin’s great purge?

Answer 25

• stalin turns against the communist party & eliminates all who threatened his power (1937)

Question 26

collective farms

Answer 26

• gov begins to seize privately owned farms and turn them into large, gov. owned farms to produce food for the state.
  many families were forced to work on these.

Question 27

coalition government

Answer 27

when there are too many parties w.in a democracy, they would often create a temporary alliance to form a majority in parliment

Question 28

Weimar Republic

Answer 28

germany’s new democratic gov (1919)

Question 29

great depression

Answer 29

• stock market crash
• increasing unemployment rates

Question 30

franklin d. roosevelt

Answer 30

• first president during the great depression
• created the “new deal”
• the ppl believed in fdr’s confidence.

Question 31

the new deal [FDR]

Answer 31

• enforcement of large public works projects to decrease the unemployment rates
• gave financial help to new businesses/farms
• public $$ was spent on wellfare/relief programs