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- 1. Leader of the Communist Party, 2. Started the Bolshevik/Russian Revolution, 3. Followed the teachings of Karl Marx, 4. United the people to overthrow the government
- 1. The last czar of Russia, 2. Created the DUMA after Bloody Sunday to make the people happy and end the absolute monarchy, 3. He abdicated the throne during the March Revolution
- based on the economic laws of supply and demand, when enough people want something, producers make it because they want a PROFIT
- Capital belongs to individuals who are FREE to do what they wish with it. For this reason, capitalism is also called the "free-enterprise" system
- a meeting of European leaders to bring a "balance of power" after Napoleon's rule
- Emperor of Austria-Hungary empire. Bans capital punishment and torture. He makes aristos pay races and makes it so that they are equal in the law. Abolishes surfs (slavery). Establishes a 3 year public education system. He is hated by aristos and loved by peasants so he must create a secret police
- a money value can be placed on everything in the marketplace: land, goods, time, and labor. Buyers and sellers are free to exchange goods and services at prices determined by....."SUPPLY and DEMAND"
- a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the government; no private ownership
- pride in one's country and its independence
- title given to a leader in unified Germany
- Created by Marx; the proletariat needs to unite to overthrow the capitalists; a communist state has a planned economy; collective owned property; totalitarian rule; collective farming; everyone's wants and needs are taken care of by the government; doesn't work
- an economic system based on PRIVATE OWNERSHIP and the use of CAPITAL
- Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
- An enlightened ruler who was a musician, patron of the arts, and friend to Voltaire, was also the architect of Prussia's military success against another great monarch
- Daughter of Charles XI of the Austrian Habsburgs, she was to succeed him after his death by way of the Pragmatic Sanction. When Frederick II seizes Silesia out of her grasp, she fails to return the province to the Austrians, but successfully manages to preserve Habsburg power. She won support from her subjects, as well as the Magyar nobility in supporting her in the war.
- 3 things SUn yixian hoped to estblish as the president of the new republic of china
- The Marxist revolutionaries believed that the __________ would overthrow the czar
- stalin would no tolerate ______________- because he saw it as a threat ti the conformity and obedience requires of cictizens in a totalitarian state
- 4 items stalin wanted to increase during the 5 year plan
- Kulaks were wealthy peasanrs that resisted stalins policy of _____________________