| A | B |
|---|
| invaded | entered a country with the goal of taking it over |
| helmsman | person who steers a ship |
| Mustafa Kemal | Leader of the Turkish nationalists who overthrew the last Ottoman sultan |
| socialist realism | a style of art in which Communist values and life under communism are glorified |
| Sun Yixian | one of the first leaders of the Kuomintang; "father of modern China" |
| warlord | powerful military leader |
| corruption | dishonesty; failure to act in the best interests of others |
| radical | those who favor completely new ways of doing things |
| V.I. Lenin | leader of the Bolsheviks and the first ruler of the Soviet Union |
| non-cooperation | failure to obey rules and laws |
| Rasputin | Eccentric monk assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family |
| Joseph Stalin | Revolutionary leader who took control of the Communist Party after Lenin |
| dissent | difference of opinion |
| constitutional monarchy | a form of government in which a single ruler heads the state and shares authority with elected law makers |
| minister | person in charge of an area of government, such as finance |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the Communist revolution in China |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | leader of the movement for Indian independence from Britain |
| purge | a systematic effort to eliminate a targeted group of people |
| soviet | one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar Nicholas II |
| collective farm | a large government controlled farm formed by combining many small farms |
| kulak | a member of a class of wealthy Russian peasants |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror in Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power |
| Kuomintang | the Chinese Nationalist Party formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 |
| Long March | a 6,000 mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces |
| domination | control |
| civil disobdience | a deliberation and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust |
| command economy | an economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions |
| totalitarianism | government cotrol over every aspect of public and private life |
| athesists | people who do not think there is a god |
| May Fourth Movement | a national protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated againist the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference |
| provisional government | a temporary government |
| Duma | a Russian national parliament formed in the early years of the 20th century |
| BOlsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 |
| trans-Siberian Railway | a rail line buit b/w 1891 and 1904 to connect European Russia with Russian ports on the Pacifc OCean |
| pogrom | one of the organized campaigns of violence against Jewish communities in late 19th century Russia |
