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| Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communist |
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| (1872–1916) A self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russia deteriorated because of him. |
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| the political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality |
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| (1879–1940) Russian Communist revolutionary; he negotiated the peace between Russia and the Central Powers to end Russian involvement in World War I. |
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| Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the Soviet economy |
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| The March revolution that forced Nicholas to step down |
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| or temporary, government. |
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| armed Bolshevik factory workers, attacked the provisional government |
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| Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I as a part of his Fourteen Points |
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| submarines used by Germans in World Wars I and II |
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| a telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I; proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico |
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| an agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war |
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| President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post–World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars |
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| (1919) treaty ending World War I; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations |
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| an international body of nations formed after World War I to prevent future wars |
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| territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War I |
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| (1917) a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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