A | B |
Westernization | Peter the Great's plan to make Russia more like rest of Europe |
St. Petersberg | Port City of Russia |
Proletariat | Russian working class |
Mensheviks | Moderate Marxist followers |
Bolsheviks | Radical Marxist followers |
Communism | Theory of goverment where everything is divided equally. No class system |
Manifesto | Doctrine/writing states or explaining an idea or theory |
Siberia | Barren steppe of Eastern Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railroad | Connected eastern Russia with ports on Western Russia |
Marxist | Followers of Communist theory proposed by Karl Marx |
Facism | Form of goverment in which a dictator uses communism to take control |
Dictator | Leader of a country who rules completely over the people |
NATO | North Atlantic Trade Organization; united countries against communism |
Warsaw Pact | Opposed NATO; made up of communist countries |
Truman Doctrine | Proposed that the U.S. give aid to countries that opposed communism |
Iron Curtain | "Line" that separated Western Europe from communist Eastern Europe |
Berlin Wall | Divided Germany in half after WWII; communist and non communist sides |
Cold War | Tension/hostility between two countries by means other than fighting |
Glasnot | Term for a new period of "openness" in Russia |
Duma | Board of advisors to the leader of Russia |
Red Army | Communist army under Lenin and Stalin |