Monroe Doctrine
Spanish-American War 1898
Central Powers World War I
Allies World War I
Woodrow Wilson
Paris Peace Conference - Versailles Treaty
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
collective security
isolationism (non entanglement)
Washington Naval Conference
Great Depression
Dirty Thirties / the Low Dishonest Decade
Franklin Delano Roosevelt—FDR
Pearl Harbor
Operation Torch
US Military Strength
1945: 12 million troops
1946: 6.1 million troops
1948: 1.6 million troops
Defense Budget
1945: $80 billion (40% of GNP)
1946: $45 billion
1947: $11 billion (5% of GNP)
Soviet Military Strength
1945: 11.3 million troops
1947: 2.8
million
Soviet defence budget falls from 137.8 billion rubles in 1944 to 55.2 billion by 1947 |
Marxist Bolshevik faction of Russian Social Democratic Party
Tsar Nicholas I
"gendarme of Europe"
Crimean War (1853-56)
"industrial wars"
Tsar Alexander II
Tsar Nicholas II
Russo-Japanese War of 1905
Port Arthur
Battleship Potemkin
1905 Russian Revolution
Duma
Ottoman Empire
Dardanelle Straits
Black Sea
February Revolution of 1917
October "Revolution" of 1917
the sealed railway car
Vladimir Illych Ulyanov -- Lenin
Soviets
Russian Civil War 1918-1923
Red Army - White Army
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian Intervention
Karl Marx Communist Manifesto
trade unionism
“conspiracy to restrict trade”
anarchists
Haymarket Square Bombing (Riot)
US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
Palmer Raids
Red Scare
Mario 'Mike' Buda (Buda's Wagon)
American Civil Liberties Union – the ACLU
J. Edgar Hoover (FBI)
Winnipeg General Strike (Great Winnipeg Strike)
RCMP Security Service
Checka
Comintern
NEP (New Economic Policy)
Nikolai Bukharin
Joseph Stalin
"socialism in one country"
collectivization
Great Terror 1937
Gulag
NKVD
Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Treaty (Ribbentrop Pact/Stalin-Hitler Pact)
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Barbarossa
Elbe Link-up
Berlin 1945
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