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Chapter 26 Section 2&3
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Histology
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05/08/2012

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Bolsheviks
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Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communist
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Grigory Rasputin
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(1872–1916) A self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russia deteriorated because of him.
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Marxism-Leninism
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the political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality
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Leon Trotsky
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(1879–1940) Russian Communist revolutionary; he negotiated the peace between Russia and the Central Powers to end Russian involvement in World War I.
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New Economic Policy
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Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the Soviet economy
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February Revolution
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The March revolution that forced Nicholas to step down
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Provisional Government
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or temporary, government.
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Red Guard
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armed Bolshevik factory workers, attacked the provisional government
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Woodrow Wilson:
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Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I as a part of his Fourteen Points
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U-boats
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submarines used by Germans in World Wars I and II
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Zimmermann Note
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a telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I; proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
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armistice
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an agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war
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Fourteen Points
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President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post–World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars
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Treaty of Versailles
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(1919) treaty ending World War I; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations
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an international body of nations formed after World War I to prevent future wars
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League of Nations
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mandates
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territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War I
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Balfour Declaration
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(1917) a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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