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Test 3 1st 9 weeks
WWI, WWII and Russian Revolution
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History
6th Grade
09/23/2008

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Term
conscription
Definition
requires citizens to serve in the military
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alliances
Definition
defense agreements in times of war
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nationalism
Definition
feeling of pride for one's country
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militarism
Definition
fascination with war and the military
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propaganda
Definition
government controlling information and used to cause people to think in a certain way
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armistace
Definition

An agreement that ends a war

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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
the agreement that stated the terms of the end of WWI
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reparations
Definition

money paid to the winners of the war

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Czar  (Tsar)

Definition
The  absolute ruler(emperor/ceasar) of Russia before 1918.
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Duma
Definition
The ruling body of Russia from 1906-1917
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Soviets

Definition
(Communist/Bolsheviks)
Members of the political party which believes the government should control all businesses
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Serf

Definition

 

(peasants)

People who are bound to the land in which they work and are subjects of the land owner

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Nicholas II
Definition

 

Last Czar of Russia

Abdicated his throne,

 murdered during the Russian Revolution

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Lenin

Definition

 leader of the Communist party,

overthrew monarchy of Czar Nicholas II

First leader of the USSR  (Soviet Union)

Term

Holocaust

Definition
The genocide of nearly 6 million Jews by the Nazi party during WWII
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Genocide
Definition
The deliberate destruction of a specific racial, ethnic or religious group
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Mussolini
Definition

Leader of the Facist party in Italy

Allied with Germany in WWII

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Hitler
Definition

Leader of the Nazi party in Germany

Led genocide (Holocaust)

Responsible for the death of 6 million Jews

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Stalin
Definition

Leader of the Communist Party after Lenin

Period known as "Stalinism"

from 1924-1953

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