Forms of Government
A form of government in which one person (or a small group) has total power over a country and its people. What form of government is this?
Autocracy (or Autocratic Rule)
In 1894, ____________ became Czar. He continued the tradition of Russian autocracy.
Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917
What were emperors of Russia called before 1917?
Czars (or Tsars)
In 1921, a group met in Shanghai to organize the Chinese Communist Party. ___________, was an assistant librarian at Beijing University and was among one of its founders.
Mao Zedong
What is a sultan?
A ruler or monarch of a Muslim country or state, similar to a king or emperor.
A form of government where the ruling power has total control over all aspects of public and private life in a country. What form of government is this?
Totalitarianism
________________ took complete control of Russia and was seen as an early form of totalitarianism.
Vladimier Lenin
What does "USSR" stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nationalists overthrows Qing Dynasty: Among the groups pushing for modernization and nationalization was the ____________, or the Nationalist Party.
Kuomintang
The origins of modern-day ________ trace back more than 600 years, when it was part of the vast and powerful Ottoman Empire.
Turkey
This economic form of government is... based on how much you work and the job you do. What form of government is it?
Capitalism
Totalitarian leaders devised methods of control and persuasion. These include the use of terror, indoctrination, ____________, censorship, and religious or ethnic persecution.
Propaganda
_________ revolutionaries believed that the industrial class of workers would overthrow the Czar.
Marxists
Who is often seen as the first great leader of the Nationalist Party in China?
Sun Yixian
This document was the first constitution in any Islamic country. What was the name of it?
The Constitution of 1876.
This economic form of government is... shared purely based on need, not work done. What form of government is it?
Communism
This Czar of Russia enforced harsh measures. He imposed strict censorship codes on published materials and written documents. Who was this Czar?
Czar Alexander III (1881-1894)
This ____________________ began in 1891, but was not completed until 1916. It connected European Russia in the west with ports on the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Trans-Siberian Railway
The Three Principles of the People were:
Nationalism–an end to foreign control.
______________-__________
People’s Livelihood–economic security for all Chinese.
People’s Rights–democracy.
In 1923, who became the president of the New Republic of Turkey, the first republic in southwest Asia?
Mustafa Kemal
This economic form of government is... shared more equally among all the workers; everyone gets enough to meet basic needs. What form of government is it?
Socialism
This term is used to describe a political system in which the government tries to control every part of people's lives.
Orwellian (from the George Orwell book, 1984)
What was the Great Purge?
A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power (1937-1938).
In 1933, Jiang Jieshi gathered an army, then surrounded the Communists’. Outnumbered, the Communist Party began a hazardous, 6,000-mile-long journey called the ____________.
Long March
The rising demand for ___________ products in industrialized countries brought new ___________ explorations to southwest Asia.
Petroleum (or Oil)