| A | B |
|---|
| Alexander III | Ruthless Czar of Russia who wanted to maintain a autocratic styl eof governing |
| Nicholas II | Last Romanov to serve as Czar of Russia |
| Pogroms | acts of violence against Russian Jews |
| Autocracy | System of government where the ruler acccepts no input from any others |
| Trans Siberian RR | RR that linked all fo Russia together. Longest continuous RR in world. |
| Bolseviks | Marxist revolutionaries that wanted to overthrow Russian government |
| Vladimir Lenin | Leader of Bolsheviks who took turned Russia into a Communist nation |
| Duma | Russia's 1st Parliament |
| Rasputin | Self described holy man who held influence over Czarina Alexandra |
| Czarina Alexandra | Wife of Nicholas II |
| Provisional government | Government led by Alexander Kerenslky that took over Russia after Nicholas II resigned |
| Bolshevik Revolution | Communist takeover of the provisional government |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's economic plan that used a mixture of simple capitalism and socialism |
| Soviet | Local council run by the Bolsheviks that had considerable influence over their regions. |
| Totalitarianism | Style of governing where the State has total control over every aspect of life. |
| Joseph Stalin | Took over USSR after Lenin's death and turned USSR into totalitarian state. |
| kulaks | peasants who owned land and resisted giving it up. |
| great purge | when Stalin's government sought out and killed all enemies of Communism in USSR |
| 5 yr plans | Stalin's plans to rebuild the indutrial and agricultural systems of USSR |
| 5 weapons of totalitarianism | 1. police terror 2. indoctrination 3. propaganda 4. censorship 5. religious persecution |
| command economy | system where government makes all economic decisions. |
| collective farms | large government owned farms |
| socialist realism | artistic style that praised Soviet way of life & Communism |
| Kuomintag | Nationalist party in China |
| Sun Yixang | Leader of Kuomintang that wanted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in China who took control and turned China into a Communist State |
| May 4th Movement | Protest over European nations exclusion of Chinese interests in treaty of Versailles |
| Long March | Chinese Communist flight from Nationalist Party persecution |
| Mohandes Ghandi | Leader of India's independance movement |
| civil disobedience | Ghandi's peaceful protest style |
| Mustafa Kemal | Turkish nationalist who led the takeover of Turkey's government. |
