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- British law passed in 1919 allowing the government to jail protestors without trial for up to two years, leading to widespread outrage and protests.
- A major reason many Russian people supported the Bolsheviks in the November 1917 revolution was that the Bolsheviks called for...
- Bringing all agricultural and industrial production under government control
- A 1919 movement in China rejecting Western democracy in favor of Soviet communism by many Chinese intellectuals.
- In which country did Reza Pahlavi lead a coup d'etat in 1921?
- His goals were to maintain China as a modern republic that is free and democratic, and to expel the Japanese during WW2...
- The revolution that resulted in the Bolsheviks taking control of the Russian government and marked the beginning of the Soviet Union.
- The uprising that led to the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy and the establishment of a provisional government in Russia in 1917.
- Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
- Whose goal was it to establish a modern government in China modelled after his Three Principles of the People?
- His goals were to unite China under communist rule modeled after the Soviet Union, and to expel the Japanese during WW2...
- Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II, known as a self-proclaimed holy man who claimed to heal the sick and have prophecy. He had much influence over Tsarina Alexandra and she often went to him for advise on political issues
- In Southwest Asia after WW1, democracy was established by...
- A system of government in which the means of production are the property of the entire society rather than individuals.
- What was the result of China having a nationalists government recognized by the world but a communist party growing in the countryside?
- Territorial union created by Lenin in 1922, with an elected legislature, citizens gaining the right to vote, and workers being given control of the means of production.
- Socialist revolutionary group in Russia favoring gradual reform, higher wages, increased suffrage, and welfare programs during the Revolution of 1917.
- Leader who seized power in Persia in 1921, modernized the country, and changed its name to Iran, initiating a series of reforms to modernize and strengthen the nation.
- An ideology rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, racism, and blind loyalty to the state.
- Leader of the Bolsheviks during the Revolution of 1917, a Marxist who urged workers to unite and overthrow capitalism, called for unity among workers and farmers, and promised "Peace, Land, and Bread".