World History
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- Karl Marx & Frederick Engels wrote.....
- \"The Communitst Manifesto\" detailing communist philosophy
- Bourgeoisie
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Term for the rich factory owners - Proletariat
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Term used to describe blue collar workers
(factory workers) - Czar Nicholas Romanov II
- Last Czar of Russia
- Alexandria
- German Wife of Czar Nicholas
- Alexei
- Hemophiliac son of Nicholas II and Alexandra
- Resputin
- Strange Russian Monk whose influence on the royal family helped lead to their demise
- Menshevics
- The White Army who wanted a return to Czarist Rule (Russian Cival War)
- Bolshevics
- Communist who wanted a communist fovernment for Russia (Russian Cival War)
- Alexander Kerensky
- He lead Russia\'s Interim government following Nicholas II\'s abdication
- Vladimir Lenin
- First Communist Ruler of Russia
- Leon Trotsky
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Lenin\'a right hand man and a leader of the Red (Bolshevic)
Army - Joseph Stalin
- He succeeded Lenin. His purges caused the death of 20 million Russians
- Gail S. Halverson
- The Chocolate Pilot
- Nikita Kruschev
- He succeeded Stalin and called for \"de-Stalinization\"
- Francis Gary Powers
- U-2 Pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in late 1950s
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Soviet Ruler who succeeded Nikita krueschev
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Last ruler of Communist Russia. His changes ended communism in the Soviet Union
- February Revolution 1917
- Nicholas II abdicateds thrown of Russia
- Boris Yeltsin
- Succeeded Gorbachev
- October Revolution 1917
- Lenin and Trotsky impose communism in Russia
- Berlin Blockade 1948
- Russians try to force American and Brits out of Berlin by blockading the city
- Berlin Airlift 1948
- Allied response to the Blockade. Americans airlift food to Berliners.
- Korean War 1950-53
- First line in the Sand as American attempt to keep communism from spreading to South Korea
- Bay of Piggs Invasion 1961
- American CIA sends Cuban exhiles to attack and dipose Communist Castro in Cuba
- Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
- Americans threaten Nuclear war if Russians refuse to remove Nukes from Cuba
- Vietnam War 1956-1975
- War fought to keep communism from spreading to South Vietnam
- Communism
- Economic system in which government own all means of production. Private property is not involved
- Capitalism
- Economic system that is run through supply and demand. Government is not involved.
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Withdraws Russians from WWI-allows a 1 front war for the Germans
- Collectivization
- Restriction of private property at the hands of the communists
- New Economic Plan
- Lenin\'s plan that returned private property to farmers to encourage increased production
- Social Realism
- Depiction of happy communist in art and literature
- Five Year Plans
- Stalin\'s plans for production that imposed harsh qquotas on Russian workers
- The Purges
- Stalin kills of political enemies and relieve food shortages
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Blitzkreig - Lightning War
- Sitzkreig
- The sitdown of phoney war in west Europe in WWII
- Scorched Earth
- A policy of retreating and destroying everything left behind to deny comfort to the enemy.
- The Cold War
- A war of harsh words and threats between US and Russia from 1945-1990
- US Spy Plane
- American plane capable of flying at very high altitudes (about 7 miles) and spying on enemies.
- Glasnost
- Openess
- Perestroika
- Restructuring
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- The idea that the US and USSR would destroy each other in a nuclear war
- The Balance of Terror (Power)
- The idea that the US and USSR would destroy each other in a nuclear war.