Years of Change

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Years of Change

• Revolution in the Interwar Period

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Review (Quiz)

• Question 1 List the four long-term causes for
  World War I we discussed in class.
• Question 2 What were the years of World War I?
• Question 3 True or False The Triple
  Entente included the countries of Great Britain,
  Russia, and France.

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Review (Quiz, continued)

• Question 4 This practice of the German navy
  caused the United States to enter World War I.
• Question 5 List two ideas contained in Woodrow
  Wilsons Fourteen Points that he outlined at the
  Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

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Years of Change

• Revolution in the Interwar Period

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Preview

• Today, you will see
• Revolutions in Russia lead to a totalitarian
  state.
• Nationalism cause change throughout the world.

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Background

• What was Russia like before World War I?
• What happened to Russia in World War I?

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The Bolshevik Revolution

• Czar Nicholas II abdicates March 1917
• Provisional government
• V.I. Lenin
• Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution that
  overthrows the Russian monarchy.

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• Dear Comrades, soldiers, sailors and workers! I
  am happy to greet in your persons the victorious
  Russian revolution, to greet you as the vanguard
  of the worldwide proletarian armyAny day now the
  whole of European capitalism may crash. The
  Russian revolution accompanied by you has
  prepared the way and opened a new epoch. Long
  live the worldwide Socialist revolution!
• V.I. Lenin (1917)

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Russian Civil War

• Lenin takes power
• Ends war with Germany
• Brutal Civil War
• RedsBolsheviks
• WhitesLoyalists
• Civil war destroys Russia
• Lenin and the Reds win

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A Transfer of Power

• Lenin dies in 1924
• Joseph Stalin takes power
• Totalitarian Dictator
• The leader of a nation who has complete control
  of both public and private life.
• Absolutism?
• Command Economy
• Economy in which all decisions are made by
  government officials.

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The Five Year Plans

• Definition
• Stalins ideas for increasing economic stability
  within Russia.
• Collectives
• Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a
  group.
• Results
• Does increase economic output
• Does NOT match capitalism
• Does NOT make the Russian people happy

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The Great Purge

• Definition Stalins attempt to get rid of all
  who opposed him within Russia.
• Millions die
• Russian army suffers
• Weakens Russia going into World War II

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Life in the Totalitarian World

• Primary Source Activity
• Partners (8 minutes)
• Questions 1-3

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Revolutions throughout the World

• Mexico
• Resistance to European influence
• Nationalism
• Africa
• Resistance to colonial rule
• Pan-Africanism
• W.E.B. Dubois

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Revolutions throughout the World

• The Middle East
• Former Ottoman Lands
• Westernization
• Resentment of foreign rule
• Modernization
• Arab Nationalism

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Revolutions throughout the World

• India
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Nonviolent Resistance
• Eventual independence after WWII
• China
• Nationalists look to the West and then to Russia
  for support
• 22-year Civil War
• Mao ZedongLeader of Communists in China
• Jiang JieshiLeader of Nationalists in China

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Review

• How did the Bolshevik revolution change Russia?
• What is a totalitarian dictatorship?
• What forces were driving revolutions in countries
  throughout the world in the interwar period?