Vocab - War And Revolution Flashcards

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Total war

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War that requires each country involved to mobilize its entire population in the effort to defeat the enemy

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Treaty of Versailles

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1919 treaty that officially ended World War l

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Russian revolution

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Massive Revolution that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by communists

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Stalin

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Leader of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s

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Collectivization of agriculture

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Communist policies that ended private ownership of land by incorporating peasants from small family farms into large-scale collective farms.

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Great Depression

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Worldwide economic contraction that began in 1929 with a stock market crash in the United States

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Fascism

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Political ideology that considered the conflict of nations to be the driving force of history, praised violence against enemies

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Nazi party

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German political party dedicated to extreme nationalism and the purification of the German state

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Holocaust

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Name used for the Nazi genocide of Jews and others undesirables in German society

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Communism in Eastern Europe

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Expansion of post–World War II communism imposed with Soviet pressure

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Chinese revolution of 1949

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marks the coming to power of the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong

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Mao Zedong

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Chairman of China’s Communist Party and de facto ruler of China in 1949

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