History Definitions
Nationalism:Patriotic feelings, principals, or efforts
Imperialism: A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Treaty of Versailles: A treaty imposed on germany by the allied powers in 1920
Idealism vs. Realism: A practice of forming ideals
Fourteen points: a speech given by woodrow wilson in 1918
Self-Determined: Government of a political unit by its own people
War guilt Clause: a part of the treaty of versailles which ended world war I
W.C.T.U.:The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
League of Nations: a association of countries created on 1919
Collective Security:a system for international peace
Woodrow Wilson: the 28th president of the united states and led the U.S. in WWI
Economic Sanctions:Economic sanctions are domestic penalties applied by one country
Hoare-Laval Plan: 1935 proposal by british foreign secretary
The Locarno pact: a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925,
Kellogg-brand Pact: General Treaty for the Renunciation
Washington conference:a conference regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
Bourgeoisie:The capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
Proletariats:A member of the proletariat.
Exploitation: the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
Dictatorship of the proletariats:a socialist state in which the proletariat, or the working class, has control of political power
Cadet: a student training at military school
Bolshevik:A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party
Menshevik:a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during
October Manifesto:Manifesto was issued on October 17, 1905
Fundamental laws:law determining the fundamental political principles of a government.
Duma:A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former USSR.
Provisional government : is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a very large government
V.I. Lenin:Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician
Joseph Stalin:Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party
Peace Land Bread: A promise that was given to the russian people by the communists
Soviet: a elected council in the USSR
Alexander Kerensky: a major political leader before and during the russian revolutions
General Kornilov: military intelligence officer in the imperial russian army during WWI
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: peace treaty signed in 1918
War Communism: economical and political system that existed in soviet russia
The Russian Civil War:Conflict between the newly formed Bolshevik government and its Red Army against the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia.
Reds/Whites: said they would bring law and order and the salvation of Russia
Allied Intervention:multi-national military expedition launched in 1918 during the Russian Civil War and World War I
New Economic Policy:in effect from 1921 to 1928, reviving the wage system and private ownership of some factories
Comintern :communist organization (1919–43).
Treaty of Rapallo: an agreement signed in the Italian town of Rapallo on April 16, 1922
Guns or butter:the relationship between guns, or military spending, and butter, or food
Command Economy:An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government
Collectivization:the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism.
Kolkhoz:A collective farm in the former USSR
Kulak:A peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor.
Five Year plan :any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years
The Purges :Law To clear of a charge or an imputation
Gustav Stresemann:German liberal politician and statesman
Imperialism: A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Treaty of Versailles: A treaty imposed on germany by the allied powers in 1920
Idealism vs. Realism: A practice of forming ideals
Fourteen points: a speech given by woodrow wilson in 1918
Self-Determined: Government of a political unit by its own people
War guilt Clause: a part of the treaty of versailles which ended world war I
W.C.T.U.:The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
League of Nations: a association of countries created on 1919
Collective Security:a system for international peace
Woodrow Wilson: the 28th president of the united states and led the U.S. in WWI
Economic Sanctions:Economic sanctions are domestic penalties applied by one country
Hoare-Laval Plan: 1935 proposal by british foreign secretary
The Locarno pact: a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925,
Kellogg-brand Pact: General Treaty for the Renunciation
Washington conference:a conference regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
Bourgeoisie:The capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
Proletariats:A member of the proletariat.
Exploitation: the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
Dictatorship of the proletariats:a socialist state in which the proletariat, or the working class, has control of political power
Cadet: a student training at military school
Bolshevik:A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party
Menshevik:a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during
October Manifesto:Manifesto was issued on October 17, 1905
Fundamental laws:law determining the fundamental political principles of a government.
Duma:A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former USSR.
Provisional government : is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a very large government
V.I. Lenin:Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician
Joseph Stalin:Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party
Peace Land Bread: A promise that was given to the russian people by the communists
Soviet: a elected council in the USSR
Alexander Kerensky: a major political leader before and during the russian revolutions
General Kornilov: military intelligence officer in the imperial russian army during WWI
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: peace treaty signed in 1918
War Communism: economical and political system that existed in soviet russia
The Russian Civil War:Conflict between the newly formed Bolshevik government and its Red Army against the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia.
Reds/Whites: said they would bring law and order and the salvation of Russia
Allied Intervention:multi-national military expedition launched in 1918 during the Russian Civil War and World War I
New Economic Policy:in effect from 1921 to 1928, reviving the wage system and private ownership of some factories
Comintern :communist organization (1919–43).
Treaty of Rapallo: an agreement signed in the Italian town of Rapallo on April 16, 1922
Guns or butter:the relationship between guns, or military spending, and butter, or food
Command Economy:An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government
Collectivization:the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism.
Kolkhoz:A collective farm in the former USSR
Kulak:A peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor.
Five Year plan :any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years
The Purges :Law To clear of a charge or an imputation
Gustav Stresemann:German liberal politician and statesman