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British law passed in 1919 allowing the government to jail protestors without trial for up to two years, leading to widespread outrage and protests.
A major reason many Russian people supported the Bolsheviks in the November 1917 revolution was that the Bolsheviks called for...
Bringing all agricultural and industrial production under government control
A 1919 movement in China rejecting Western democracy in favor of Soviet communism by many Chinese intellectuals.
In which country did Reza Pahlavi lead a coup d'etat in 1921?
His goals were to maintain China as a modern republic that is free and democratic, and to expel the Japanese during WW2...
The revolution that resulted in the Bolsheviks taking control of the Russian government and marked the beginning of the Soviet Union.
The uprising that led to the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy and the establishment of a provisional government in Russia in 1917.
Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
Whose goal was it to establish a modern government in China modelled after his Three Principles of the People?
His goals were to unite China under communist rule modeled after the Soviet Union, and to expel the Japanese during WW2...
Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II, known as a self-proclaimed holy man who claimed to heal the sick and have prophecy. He had much influence over Tsarina Alexandra and she often went to him for advise on political issues
In Southwest Asia after WW1, democracy was established by...
A system of government in which the means of production are the property of the entire society rather than individuals.
What was the result of China having a nationalists government recognized by the world but a communist party growing in the countryside?
Territorial union created by Lenin in 1922, with an elected legislature, citizens gaining the right to vote, and workers being given control of the means of production.
Socialist revolutionary group in Russia favoring gradual reform, higher wages, increased suffrage, and welfare programs during the Revolution of 1917.
Leader who seized power in Persia in 1921, modernized the country, and changed its name to Iran, initiating a series of reforms to modernize and strengthen the nation.
An ideology rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, racism, and blind loyalty to the state.
Leader of the Bolsheviks during the Revolution of 1917, a Marxist who urged workers to unite and overthrow capitalism, called for unity among workers and farmers, and promised "Peace, Land, and Bread".