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nicholas romanov ll
- -czar of russia
- -autocratic (all power) dictator
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rasputin
- -mystic
- -kept around palace bcs. he kept heir to throne alive
- -controlled Alexandria and took charge of gov. when czar went to front
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vladimir ilich lenin
- -stricit marxist communist, followed communist manifesto like a play book
- -wanted the soviet union to lead the rest of the world in a workers revolution were there is not rich or poor but instead a perfect society
- -pulled russia out of wwl, took farms and factories and gave to peasentry
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leon trotsky
- -him and lenin led reds to victory over bolsheviks
- -wasnt politically talented so stalin took control after lenin died
- -eventually exiled by stalin
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joseph stalin
- -wanted to build up to soviet union to be so powerful everyone would want to be like them
- -totalitarian dictator
- -controlled religion, created collective farms, controlled media, arts, education
- -ruled through terror and exiled 10's of millions to siberia
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mensheviks
- -WHITES
- -conservatives
- -czarists
- -western nations
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provisional government
- -led by the DUMA led by Kerensky
- -started as democratic republic but turned into dictatorship under kerensky
- -failed bcs. kerensky didnt give enough power to duma, didnt close gap between rich & poor, and left russia in wwl
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alexander kerensky
led DUMA and provisional government
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soviets
labor unions/political parties
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russian civil war
- -between reds (bolsheviks) and whites (mensheviks)
- -western nations afraid if bolshevik revolution suceeded there would be revolutions throughout the west
- -trotsky led reds to victory but russia destroyed
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october revolution/red october/proletariate revolution
lenin led a workers revolution is russia taking down the provisional gov. and installing a bolshevik (communist) gov.
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Dawes Plan
u.s. banks loaned $ to euro. countries to stabilize economies and pay off debts
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describe stalins goals for russia and the methods he used to rule over the russians
- -wanted to build up to soviet union to be so powerful everyone would want to be like them
- -controlled religion
- -created collective farms
- -controlled media, arts, and education
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sequence and explain events in the russian revolution
- -trotsky led 1905 revolution w/ soviets and got the czar to create duma
- -feb 1917 czar nicholas and family were captured and new gov. took over
- -lenin led revolution & overthrew provisional gov. (the bolshevik communist rev. in "red" october)
- -lenin had to fight civil war for full power, reds vs whites, trotsky led reds to victory
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how did hitler take power and the steps he took
- -became leader of nazi party
- -wrote main kampf in prison
- -rebuilt nazis to most powerful political party
- -politicians were scared of communists & gave power to nazis
- -gave hitler title chancellor
- -got germ. pres to call reichsteg re election
- -blames communists for burning of reichstag and nazis take power
- -vote to give him power of dictator
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fascism
one party has all power, no indiv. liberties, extreme loyalty to gov. & leader is required
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benito mussolinitoo
- -italian fascist dictator
- -led group called blackshirts
- -rebuilt economy/military
- -got trains running on time
- -denounced communism=support from rich
- -abolished democ. & political parties
- -took control of indust.
- -controlled media
- -took over colonies for italy (started with ethiopia)
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mein kampf
- (my struggle)
- -book hitler wrote in prison
- -combination of social darwinism (german ppl were master race, others were subhuman) and neitzche (uberman)
- -wanted to conquer easter euro. and russia to make space for master race
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gestapo
-hitlers secret police
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SS
- -schutzstaffer
- -loyal only to hitler
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post wwl events that led to wwll
- -japan need to new lands for raw materials so they invaded manchuria
- -italy invaded ethiopia
- -hitler began rebuilding german military and moved army to rhineland and signed treaties of support with italy and japan forming axis power
- -hitler annexed austria, seen as hero there
- -czechs ask france and gb for help in defending sudetenland, give to hitler in exchange for word he'd leave czechoslovakia alone, took it 6 months later
- -stalin signs pact with germany
- -hitler attacks poland and soviet union attacks from east, gb and france declare war on germany
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Rome: legal code, executive, judicial, and legislative
- -12 tables
- -2 consuls
- -praetors
- -senate=patricians
- tribal assembly=plebians
- centuriate assembly=citizen soldier
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us:legal code, executive, judicial, legislative
- -constitution
- -president
- -supreme court
- -senate=2/state
- house of rep.=based on pop.
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locke
natural rights of life, liberty, property, and gov. expected to protect these or be overthrown
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beccaria
-rights of the accused
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montesquieu
seperation of powers and checks and balances
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hobbes
powerful central gov. to keep ppl in check
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