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Title: I. The Russian Revolution


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I. The Russian Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
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A. Russian Civil War
  • Russia largest army in world (1916 ran out of
    supplies)
  • 2. Tsar Nicholas II lived in luxuryfamily
    eventually executed
  • 3. February Revolution (1917) massive strikes
    protests
  • - tsar abdicated throne
  • - Provisional Government formed led by
    Kerensky
  • Marxists emerge Bolsheviks led by V.I. Lenin
  • - October Revolution (1917) Lenin takes power
  • - 1918 Russia leaves WWI (lost 1/3 of territory)

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The Romanov Family
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B. New Economic Policy (N.E.P.)
  • 1918 Russian Civil Warby 1921 Communist Red
    Army wins
  • 1922 creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist
    Republics (U.S.S.R.)
  • Russian economy in shambles
  • Lenins New Economic Policy restored production
    by relaxing government controls (Peace, Land,
    Bread)
  • Death of Lenin (1924) struggle for power Leon
    Trotsky forced out by Joseph Stalin

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General Secretary of the Communist Party
Leninism
Politburo
Politburo
Committees
National Congress
Soviets
The Russian State from 1918 until 1989
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C. German Civil War?
  • brink of civil war in Germany (1923)
  • - French occupied Ruhr Valley
  • - severe hyperinflation

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II. China Japan
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A. Issues in the Far East
  • Early 1900s China
  • rapid population growth
  • weakened Qing dynasty
  • brutal warlords tax collectors
  • devastating floods of Yellow River
  • 2. Japan had few natural resources
  • expansion

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B. East Asia
  • 1. China
  • landlords
  • wealthy merchants
  • peasants
  • foreigners
  • 2. Japan
  • industrialization aggravated social tensions
  • urbanites against traditionalists
  • wealthy zaibatsu (large companies) vs. poor
    farmers

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C. Chinese Revolutions (19001918)
  • 1. Boxer Rebellion (Righteous Fists of Harmony)
    1899-1901 anti-imperialist anti-Christian
    movement
  • China defeated humiliated
  • 2. Chinese Revolution (1911) revolution to
    overthrow the Qing by Army mutiny
  • Sun Yat-sen elected as president of China

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Last Emperor of China Puyi
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D. Chinese Warlords
  • Paris Peace Conference Japan controlled German
    colonies in China
  • - riots in Beijing
  • Chinas regional generals (warlords) plundered
    taxed countryside
  • - treaty ports prospered

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E. Chiang Kai-shek
  • Sun Yat-sen welcomed members of the new Chinese
    Communist Party (CCP)
  • Suns successor Chiang Kai-shek
  • crushes regional warlords (1927)
  • crushes Communist Party
  • industrialization modernization
  • corrupt administrators
  • forced to Taiwan
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