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History of Russia
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- Communism: international and one class. Fascism: focus on state and defined classes. Both used terror and elite
- "living space"- Germany's excuse to expand their territory (Rhineland came 1st when Germany tried to take over land.)
- leader of the Bolsheviks and 1st leader of USSR (promised peace, land, and bread)
- People distressed over their countries economic, political, and cultural issues. They looked for leaders who were inspired and promised change.Toju- JapanHitler- GermanyStalin- USSRMussolini- Italy
- collective farmland; the taking of private property
- the genocide and slaughter of anybody who opposed the communist ideals
- Bolsheviks were radicals and pro revolution. The Mensheviks were moderate and wanted a more gradual change.
- restrictions of the Jewish populations rights (Nazis were created)
- dictator of the USSR and responsible for millions of peasant deaths
- self described "holy man"; influenced by czarina
- Saudi Arabia was ruled with Arab and Islamic _____________.
- India was part of the ___________ Empire from the mid-1800s until it independence in 1947.
- Lenin organized Russia into self- governing republics under his central communist ________________ named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
- In March 1917, in Petrograd, an uprising of textile workers spread and became a general uprising known as the __________ Revolution. It forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate (give up) his __________.
- In 1911, a nationalist revolution overthrew the _______ emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.
- After the March Revolution, the Duma created a provisional government to rule ____________, but its leaders decided to keep Russia in WWI. Many Russian people began to join ____________ (local councils formed by Socialists revolutionaries).
- In April 1927, ________________ troops killed many Communists. The Communists responded, and __________ erupted into a civil war that lasted until 1949.
- Mao and the communists gathered support from the Chinese ______________.
- To _____________ the Salt Acts, Gandhi and his followed marched to the seacoast and used sea water to make ________.
- The Bolsheviks change their name to the _______________ Party.