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- In 1923, Mustafa Kemal became the president of the new Republic of Turkey. He brought in reforms to modernize Turkey. He brought in reforms to separate Islamic religious _______ from national laws, create a legal system based on the ________________ law, grant women suffrage, and create programs to __________________ Turkey.
- After years of continued civil disobedience, the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act, which allowed local _______________________. Full independence was achieved in 1947.
- In 1921, the Chinese Communist Party is _______________, and one of its leaders is Mao Zedong.
- Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi was the leader of the _____________ independence movement. Gandhi's strategy was _______________ resistance and civil disobedience (examples: __________________ British goods and refusing to pay British taxes).
- In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the radical __________________ (Russian Marxists or communists) were led by Vladimir Lenin.
- In the 1920s, the _____________ nationalists' government is led by Chiang Kai-shek.
- When Russia was beaten by the better supplied Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War, the humiliating loss sparked __________ in Russia.
- After the November Revolution, a _________ war broke out in Russia between the Red Army (Bolsheviks) and __________ Army (royalists, socialists, and democrats)from 1918 to 1920. The Red Army crushed the White Army.
- Stalin and his leader created Five-Year Plans. These plans set quotas or goals to increase industrial output of steel, _________, and oil.
- In 1937, Stalin launched the Great Purge (campaign of terror used to eliminateanyone who ____________________ his power; targeted Stalin's own communists).
- To wipe out ________________________, Czar Alexander III (r.1881-1894) imposed censorship codes, used secret ____________, sent political prisoners to Siberia, and used pogroms to target _______________ Jews.
- What are the methods of Propaganda Stalin's Totalitarian State used?
- Nicholas II and Alexander III had ________________ any and all efforts to reform Russia.
- In 1894, Nicholas II became czar of _____________.
- Imperial Russia- The ruling czars (emperors) were dedicated to the principles of ______________.
- Lenin and the communists Bolsheviks are in control of _______________.
- After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin is the leader of USSR's Communist Party and is the totalitarian __________.
- In November 1917, the Bolsheviks overtook the provisional government. This overthrow became known as the _____________________ Revolution.
- Who became a constitutional monarchy for a time, but Russian established state controlled society lasting decades.
- What did Russia want in result of the war?