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World War I & The Russian Revolution
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10th Grade
05/30/2011

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Term
La Belle Epoque
Definition
  • 1880-1914
  • 'good ole time' - effiel tower, peace, cafes
  • Avant Garde = super modern artist

 

Term
Blank Check
Definition
  • fill-in check, unconditional support
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy
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Schlieffen Plan
Definition
1914 - avoid two front war - stopped 50 miles from Paris
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Huns
Definition
USA thinks Germany wants to destroy Western Culture - brutal, monkey like
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Dulce et Decorum Est
Definition
Wilfred Owen - poem from WW1 - sense of despair, lost generation
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Rhineland
Definition
15 years demilitarization & French occupation (TOV)
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Saar Basin
Definition
the mines are given to France b/c Germany can't afford to pay w/ money (TOV)
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Disarmament
Definition
required demilitarization
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Armistice
Definition
end of fighting, truce (11/11/1918)
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Reparations
Definition
financial compensation
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Dissident Elite
Definition

intellectual communist revolutionaries

want communist change - trying to create revolution

Ex: Lenin, Trotsky

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Provisional Goverment
Definition
  • imediate remedy, temporary, conservative
  • leader = Alexander Kerensky
  • established in March 1917
  • bisness men, aristocrats, former gov't off.
  • just replaced tsar goverment
  • not communist, wealthy upper class, tainted
  • keep Russia in war, delay redistribution of land
  • delay recreation of ppl parliment
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Petrograd Soviet
Definition
  • national assembly
  • established Feb. 1917 - before tsar abdicates
  • Composed of Bolsheviks
  • want to pull out of war
  • actively dethrone tsar
  • keep mirs
  • establish a communist gov't
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Bolsheviks
Definition
made up the Petrograd Soviet - factory workers, peasants, soldiers, local officials
Term
Nationalization
Definition

national ownership

Bolshevik - own and administer land and monies

 all components of the economy are in hands of gov't (in theory) w/ the ppl

Term
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Definition
  1. workers, peasants, people dictate gov't action and policy
  2. Lenin/ Stalin call for strong, powerful leadership to dictate the people
Term
League of Nations
Definition

creation in 1919

protection of oppressed peoples

foster peace

early form of United Nations

Wilson's idea but USA never joined b/c no interest in European politics

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Fourteen Points
Definition
  • alliances must be public not private
  • downsize all militaries
  • give voice to local population - involvement in gov't
  • split of A-H, support new nations
  • independent Poland
  • League of Nations
Term
Balkan Wars
Definition

political and cultural tensions 1912-3

- decline of the Ottoman E. (muslim)

- creation of new nations (Serbia & Bulgaria)

- continued presence of  A-H which occupies Bosnia

- tensions between religious groups

Term
April Theses
Definition

Lenin 1917 - Bolshevik platform

- tranfer power to proletariat/ peasants

- end invovlement in WWI

- overthrow capitalism - communism

- end gov't violence towards masses

- allow pro. to have political life and repsonsibilities

- no support for provisional gov't

- transfer all power to the soviets

- establish republic of soviets

- economic leveling

- nationalization of land

- establish model farms "5 year plan"

- single national bank

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