7. April Theses
• Issued by Vladimir Lenin which demanded peace, land for peasants,
and power to the soviets.
8. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Treaty between the Soviets and Germany which a huge peace of
western Russia was ceded to Germany, so Russia dropped out of
World War I and was not apart of the negotiation during the Treaty of
Versailles.
9. Soviet Union
• Baltic republics, Ukraine, Siberia, and other parts of the former
Russian Empire.
10. Red Army
• Military force under the command of Leon Trotsky created by the
Bolsheviks.
12. Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk, "Father of the
Turks")
• Led successful military campaigns against the Greeks, and overthrew
the Ottoman sultan. First President of modern Turkey. Set Turkey on a
path toward Europe as opposed to the Middle East.
13. New Economic Policy
• Instituted by Lenin which had capitalistic aspects, but was discarded
by Joseph Stalin.
15. Five Year Plans
• Instituted by Stalin that called for expedient agricultural production
by ruthlessly taking over private farms and combining them into
state-owned enterprises, and advocated for the construction of large,
nationalized factories.
18. Communism
• A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and
leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each
person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
