AP Euro - Europe in Crisis (1914-1939)
AP Euro - Europe in Crisis (1914-1939)
Vocab Words
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- Statue of Westminister
- 1931; Britan's action that granted self rule to the colonies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa
- war communism
- Lenin's method of control during the Russian Revolution
- (Ramsey) MacDonald
- 1923; The first leader of the Labour party in England; Failed because he tried to establish ties with the Soviet Union
- Liberal party
- England's party that wanted laizze-faire econimics
- (Franklin D.) Roosevelt
- 1933; The president of America during the Great Depression
- (Alexander) Kerensky
- 1917; Head of a reorganized (provisional) government in Russia; Tours the Eastern front and appeals to soldiers to keep fighting (unlike the Bolsheviks)
- (Prince George) Lvov
- 1917; The head of Duma's provisional government (set up after Nicholas II dismissed the Duma)
- pogrom
- An act of organized violence agasint Jews
- Nicholas II
- 1894; Russian ruler; Angered the people because of his non-reforming laws
- Eire (Irish Free State)
- The name of the state crated by England in response to the Easter Rebellion
- mirs
- Land village communities in Russia; Abolished by the Stolypin
- Social Democrats (SD)
- 1898; Workers who wanted to remove the czar by strikes and mass action; Marxist; 1903 split into Bolshevik and Menshevik parties
- (Raymond) Poincare
- 1923; The French prime minister who sent troops into the Ruhr valley in Germany to try to get money (The Germans passively resisted)
- Bolshevicks
- 1903; Lenin; Supported a small party of intellectuals to make a communist revolution
- Commonwealth of Nations
- 1931; The former structure of Britan's Statue of Westminister (self-rule of certain colonies)
- (Gregori) Rasputin
- A Russian mystic monk who had control of the government when Nicholas II was out at war
- Whites
- Lenin's opposition with old army and Kulaks
- sovkhoz
- A large farm in which peasants were simply employed and paid a straight salary
- Rome-Berlin Axis
- The agreement between Hitler and Mussolini to ally Italy and Germany
- Popular Front
- The French alliance between communists, socialists, and radicals
- Mensheviks
- 1903; Plekhanov; Believed in a loosely-organized mass party membership
- (New Economic Policy) NEP
- 1921; Lenin's policy to replace war communism; Allowed peasants to sell surplus crops
- (Edmund) Daladier
- 1937; Conservative who overturned Blum's reforms in the French Popular Front
- Cheka
- Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage; Lenin's secret police to control the contry during the Russian Civil war
- Duma
- Russia's law-making body; Created by Czar Nicholas II
- Petrograd Soviets
- 1917; A council of workers or soldier deputies; Shared the power with the Russian provisional government
- (Neville) Chamberlain
- 1937; The leader of England's conservative party at the start of World War I
- (Vladimir) Lenin
- 1917; Delcares Russia the freest country in the World; Becomes the first ocmmunist leader of Russia
- Wall Street Crash
- 1929; The dramatic lowering of price in US stocks
- Anschluss
- Hitler's policy that all Germany people belong together; Hitler uses this reasoning to invade Austria
- Locarno Pact
- 1925; Germany's affirmation that it would accept its current boundaries
- Father Gapon
- 1905; The leader of Bloody Sunday; Russian orthodox priest
- Kulaks
- A Russian wealthy class of peasants
- New Deal
- Roosevelt's plan to get out of the great depression by increased government spending
- Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
- 1940; The name after Japan was joined into the Rome-Berlin axis
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- 1917; The government in Russia that is established with Lenin as the head of state (Trotsky is foreign minister)
- Labour party
- England's party which promised social legislation
- Alexandra
- Czar Nicholas II's wife who filled in as ruler when he went to fight in World War I
- purge
- 1934-1938; Stalin's tactic that killed all of his opponents
- Social Security
- A government program designed to provide basic income for those who have retired; introduced by Roosevelt
- Order No 1
- 1917; The soviet order which stripped officers of their ranks and authority and placed the power in the hands of a committee of soldiers; Discipline broke down
- (John Maynard) Keynes
- English economist who urged the goverment to spend money during a depression to get the economy moving; Influcned the New Deal
- (General Francisco) Franco
- 1936; Leader with fascist supporters who revoolted agasint the legally elected leftist government of Spain (which started the civil war)
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- 1918; The treaty where Russia dropped out of World War I and ceeded land to Germany
- (Joseph) Stalin
- 1917; the Bolshevik commissar for nationalities in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Easter Rebellion
- 1916; The Irish rebellion just after the start of World War I; Failed
- Peter Stolypin
- Czar Nicholas II's conservative minister who tried to create order with pogroms
- Irish Republican Army
- 1916-1922; Ireland's army which waged savage guerrilla warfare against England until it made a comprimise
- (Union of the Soviet Socialists Republics) U.S.S.R.
- 1922; The new name of Russia in cluding Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Transcaucasia
- (Leon) Blum
- The leader of the French Popular Front; Tried to mimic Roosevelt's New Deal
- Reds
- The name of the Bolsheviks in battle
- Russo-Japanese War
- 1904-1905; War between Japanese and Russia in a conflict over Manchuria
- kolkhoz
- A collective farm that was owned and operated by its members who were forced to deliver large parts of their crop to the state at prices fixed by the state
- Treaty of Portsmouth
- 1905; Ending treaty of the Russo-Japanese War; Russia gave some land to Japan and surrendered Manchuria; Russia was humiliated
- Zemstovs
- The provincial council elected by the landowners and peasantes which had been established by Czar Alexander II in 1864
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- 1928; Nations (including France) agreed that war was not an instrument of foreign policy
- Munich Conference
- The meeting of Chamberlain, Daladier (Prime minister of France), Mussolini, and Hitler; Decided to cede the Sudetenland to Germany
- Dawes Plan
- 1924; America's plan that would loan money to Germany so it could pay France and Great Britan, who woulc, in turn, pay back the United States
- Young Plan
- 1929; The agreement to futher reduce the German reparation payments
- Maginot Line
- A series of concrete fortifications along France's eastern border to protect against another German attack
- Bloody Sunday
- 1905; Russian workers marched on the winter palace at St. Petersburg to get some liberal reforms; It was ttacked and people were killed
- Reign of Terror
- Stalin's purge in which he killed all of his opponents and anyone who was not loyal to him
- October Manifesto
- 1905; Czar Nicholas II priomised a new constitution with civil rights/liberties and creation of the Duma
- Anti-Comintern Pact
- 1939; Germany, Japan, and Italy agree to oppose the spread of communism
- (Stanley) Baldwin
- 1924-1929; THe leader of England's conservative party which feared communism