IDs485 ~ 506

By Meghan Kolbjornsen

485“The Blank Check”

Germany gave Austria Hungary support with any war arising with Serbia after the assassination of Archduke FerdinandThis provoked the war…

486The Schlieffen Plan

Plan to fight both France and RussiaMarch through Belgium to knock out France early

487Provisional

GovernmentIt was basically a puppet governmentLed by Kerensky It made promises but would ask the people to wait for the resultsTrying to give equal rights to everyone

Basic rightsRight to unionize and strikeContinue the war

488Petrograd Soviet

The “puppeteer” to the Provisional GovernmentIt was too radical to be the face of the countryAlso known as the Workers’ CouncilIt basically rules over the Provisional Government

If the PG wants to do something, they turn to the Petrograd Soviet for permission

489Army Order No. 1

It gave troops the right to vote to not follow the officers’ ordersThe troops ended up leaving to take part in the land distribution that was occurring back home because they could

490Leon Trotsky

Involved with the BolsheviksLeader of the Red ArmyWas to be leader after Lenin diedWanted industry and CollectivizationBanished by Stalin who actually took over after LeninEnded up being murdered in Mexico

491White Russians

The minorities compared to the Red Russians (Red Army)Anti-Bolshevik Russian patriotsWere not as organized as the enemyLost to the Bolsheviks

492Brest-Litovsk

Between Russian delegation, headed by Trotsky, and German and Austrian representativesGave control of Baltic's, Poland, and Ukraine to Germany

493Fourteen Points

By WilsonPlan to end the war along liberal democratic lines

No secret treatiesFree seasNo tariffsGermans leave RussiaIndependence of minority groups in Germany/Austria-Hungaryetc

494Treaty of Versailles

Key to settlement and a step to international orderListed Germany’s reparations

33 billion marksLost coloniesWar Guilt Clause

Germany not too happy

495Mandates

Followed World War ILeague of Nations mandates – Two phasesFormer colonies and territories of the Central Powers to go to the Allied PowersFormal removal of sovereignty of the previously controlling states

496League of Nations

President WilsonResult of the Paris Peace ConferenceAttempted to prevent future aggression between countries…namely Germany (issued Mandates)

…didn’t really work…

497Reparations

Germany had a lot of them…

33 billion marksLost coloniesWar Guilt ClauseRhineland demilitarized

498War Guilt Clause (Article

231)Placed sole blame for war on Germany

All Germany’s fault

Guilty…

499War Communism

Social policy used by BolsheviksPolice stateVery demanding and bossy

Stop making regular items and make military items

500Cheka

Was organized under the New Bolshevik RegimePolitical (secret) policePetrograd Soviet led themLater became the KGB

501Kronstadt

A rebellion by previously pro-Bolshevik sailors at Kronstadt against economic disintegrationMade Lenin announce the NEP

502NEP (New Economic

Policy)Re-established limited economic freedomRebuild agricultureRebuild industry

503Politburo

Top 12-20 comrades of the communist partyLike the president’s cabinet but with a lot more powerNew eliteGave orders to the ChekaLeaders of secret police

504Josef Stalin

Led Russia after LeninCommunistStarved UkrainesWanted a second front in the warPromised Poland free elections…Five Year PlansPurgesBecame paranoid of everyone…

505Nikolai Bukharin

Russian MarxistBolshevik RevolutionaryMember of the PolitburoSupported Stalin after Lenin diedLeader of the Left Communists Was later killed

506“Socialism in One

Country”Stalinist political theoryOpposed Bolshevik theorySocialist society could be achieved in a single country

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