AP World Period 6

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A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903, came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union.

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Bolshevik Party

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(1874-1965) British politician and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, and 1951 to 1955. He is regarded as the finest British leader of the 20th century and was instrumental in leading Britain to victory during World War II.

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Churchill, Winston

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Creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants; part of Stalin's economic and political planning; often adopted in other Communist regimes.

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Collectivization

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A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations

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Isolationism

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Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communist Party after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928-1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush all opposition.

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Josef Stalin

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Factors that contributed to the beginning of WWI: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, Money, Allies, Isolationism, Nonparticipation

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Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

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an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. WWI 1918

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Armistice

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Adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture

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Westernization

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Favoring traditional values and existing conditions; tending to oppose change

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Conservitive

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1945-1991 A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

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Cold War