| A | B |
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| peninsulares | Spanish-born colonists, the only ones that could run the colonial governments in the Americas. |
| creole | Pure Spanish born colonists that were unable to run the colonies. Second in the class structure. |
| mestizos | Mixed European and Indian ancestry that had little rights or privileges in the Spanish colonies. |
| grito de Dolores | Famous speech that started the Mexican revolution. |
| Grand Columbia | Concept of creating a united states of Latin America after independence from Spain. |
| Marxism | Extreme socialist belief that capitalism would fail and a dictatorship of the workers would rule. |
| Czar | A term used for the autocratic ruler in Russia that was like a king or emperor. |
| Proletariat | Marx’s name for the vast majority of working-class people. |
| Communist Manifesto | Document that contained the socialist ideas of Karl Marx. |
| Bolsheviks | Extremely radical Russian Marxist that overthrow the Czar in 1917. |
| Communism | Political belief that promotes equality & shared property where the government controls everything. |
| Animal Farm | Book that was an allegory for the repressive society that developed in Russia under communism. |
| Bloody Sunday | Czar orders soldiers to fire on unarmed protesters at his Palace in 1905, turns many against him. |
| Russo-Japanese War | The first time an Asian country defeated a European one. Russians begin to loose faith in the Czar. |
| Provisional government | Temporary government that ruled in Russia between the Czar and the communists. |
| duma | Russia’s first elected parliament (legislature). |
| Nationalist | Capitalist, democratic Chinese that fought a civil war with communist over who should rule China. |
| Red Guard | Name for the groups of youth that were unleashed on Mao’s critics during the Cultural Revolution. |
| Dynasty | Rule by family, this was the name for the system of rule that governed China for thousands of years |
| Five-year plan | Communist plan for modernizing industry or agriculture. |
| collectivization | Name for the communist philosophy of shared work and property that focused on group effort. |
| Great leap forward | Name for a failed 5-year plan to modernize Chinese industry & agriculture. Led to a disastrous famine. |
| Cultural Revolution | Period of time that Mao used the youth of China to silence his critics. |
| Republic of China | Name for the Chinese government that ruled China between the dynasties & the communists. |
