The French Revolution
They were required to pay 100% of the nation's taxes...
The Third Estate
Leader of the Haitian revolution
Toussaint L'Ouverture
He was the weak and ineffective ruler of Russia during the revolution
Czar Nicholas II
Leader of the communists during the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong
A government based on religion.
What is a theocracy?
These people had ideas and philosophies that challenged our views about government and how it should run.
The Enlightenment Thinkers: Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire
The European country that is most known for controlling Haiti
France
One major effect of the Russian Revolution was that Russia became this
The Soviet Union/USSR/First Communist Nation in the World
Mao took this journey and gathered the support of peasants to help the CCP win the Chinese Civil War
The Long March
The Iranian leader that westernized the nation and was eventually overthrown in 1979 as a result of these policies.
Who is Shah Reza Pahlavi?
Known for unleashing a "reign of terror" upon France
Maximilien Robespierre
Leaders of the Latin American Revolutions
Father Hidalgo, Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin
The Bolshevik leader who promised Russians these three things...
Vladimir Lenin: Peace, Land, & Bread!
Mao Zedong radicalized the youth known as the Red Guards to get rid of the OLD FOURS (old culture, old traditions, old ideas, and old habits) and revive the communist revolution.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Leader of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
Napoleon met his demise in Russia as a result of what factor?
harsh winter conditions
This country controlled most of Latin America in 1800
Spain
After Lenin's death, this leader created a totalitarian state industrializing the nation through harsh rule.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This was the name of Mao's agricultural and industrial reform policy
The Great Leap Forward
This group of people lost the most rights as a result of the revolution.
Who are women?
-mandatory dress codes
-loss of family rights (ability to divorce, husbands ability to have multiple wives, age of marriage is lowered
The "radical" political group during the Revolution
Jacobins
People born in Spain and at the top of the social hierarchy
Peninsulares
Goal of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans.
Increase INDUSTRIALIZATION
-focused on heavy industry (factories, big machines, steel)
-collective farms (state owns farms - workers forced to create huge quotas to feed to state)
-Holdomor - forced famine in Ukraine
Leader of the Chinese nationalist party that overthrew the Qing dynasty in 1911.
Who is Sun Yat-Sen?
Name one way that Khomeini, Gandhi, and Ho Chi Minh are similar leaders.
Nationalists, anti-western influence, sought fully independence from western nations.