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Marconi
inventer the wireless telegraph booked for the Titanic but suddenly back out for reasons unknown. TERM 2
Spitirtualism
DEFINITION 2 1880s-1890s Possible reaction to Charles Darwin wondered about loved ones who had passed away 'contacted the dead' Queen Victoria was into this scam there were societies dedicated to this another term for this: mediums TERM 3
Jack the Ripper
DEFINITION 3 first serial killer; never found 6-8 candidates but were never charged All victims were female prostitutes took place in London TERM 4
Erik Larson
DEFINITION 4 author or parallel stories wrote the book Thunderstruck tells the storey about Howley Harvery Crippen and Marconi TERM 5
Thunderstruck
DEFINITION 5 Crippen-meek and mild; wife Belle Elmore-demanding Crippen's secretary loved him very much one day Belle disappeared, excuse to her friends: she went back to america. Police start to investigate, finally look in the basement found human skin, no bones, teeth, organs...just skin. Dressed the secretary as a little boy, Marconi's wireless telegraph helped capture him on their way to America...captain called it in. Crippen-executed Secretary- acquitted
Russia under Czar Alexander
II
mid 1800s serfs had a horrible life in Rissia 1861-serfs freed from serfdom; conditions now worse than before intellectuals became radicals(extremists) TERM 7
Nihilism
DEFINITION 7 Extremists who set out to destroy Russian society, government, and the church (Russian Orthodox) means 'Nothingness' used terror and asassination to achieve their ends worldwide Cazr Alexander II killed by Nihilist bomb touched America...McKinley 1901 TERM 8
Alexander III
DEFINITION 8 Blammed his fathers death on being too weak Exterminate all radicals and who wanted to change the government secret police found everywhere...thousands arrested and deported to Sybyria Czar dies in 1914 TERM 9
Nicholaus
II
DEFINITION 9 succeeds father (alexander III) influenced by his german wife, Alexandria Alexei(son) free bleeder also influenced by a 'holy man' Rasputin TERM 10
Rasputin
DEFINITION 10 saved Alexei's life supposedly tall with peircing gray-blue eyes. long beard/hair thick bushy eyebrows murdered: filled with tons of poison, and several gunshot wounds, and blunt force trauma, but drowned in the river
Alexander Korensky
leader of the Provissional Government moderate socialist LOST SUPPORT BECAUSE: -couldn't keep order -Bolsheviks worked against him -Tried to keep WWI commitment with Foreign Affairs -Bolsheviks screamed "Peace, Land, Bread" TERM 17
Leon
Trotsky
DEFINITION 17 organizing Bolshevik Military force TERM 18
November 1917
DEFINITION 18 Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Gov't by force Coup De Tat- carried out by night-shock troops placed in certain key locations. bolsheviks have a tiny number of supporters/people TERM 19
John Reed
DEFINITION 19 wrote 10 Days That Shook the World hollywood turns it into a movie- Reds reds=communists pinko= leaning b/n communist and anti-communist TERM 20
Declarations by Communists when claiming
their power
DEFINITION 20 -land belinged to the state -railroads, banks, churches all nationalized-gov't take over -church no longer has priviledges -no longer able to teach in schools -attempt to destroy organized religion -all nationalities to be equal - formed special police...Cheka
Communists Opponents
russian general who still supported the Czar aristocrats who lost their estates those who still wanted a democratic government religious leaders devout peasants-resented anti- church laws TERM 22
Russian Civil War
DEFINITION 22 1918-1921 red army vs. white army possible third army- green army 15,000,000 russians died after WWI americans fought with the white army trotsky(reds) great leader-just outdid the other side TERM 23
The last of The Romanovs/Anastasia
DEFINITION 23 all were executed per Lenin's order *Anastasia survives 1980s-DNA tests prove Anastasia didn't survive, actually found the Romanovs bones in the woods TERM 24
N.E.P. New Economic
Policy
DEFINITION 24 temporay compromise with capitalism Lenin realizes that he has to retreat from harsh communist train of though 1921- 30million faced starvation TERM 25
NEPmen
DEFINITION 25 The NEPmen were businessmen and women in the young Soviet Union who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade and small-scale manufacturing created by the New Economic Policy (NEP).
5 Year Plan
1928-stalin implicates this plan few points: 1)eliminate last reminants of capitalism 2) industrialize soviet union (ussr) 3)agriculture would come under gov't control and mechanized
