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What was the Duma?What was the Duma?

This was the national parliament of Russia created after the revolution

of 1905. .

What was the Holy What was the Holy Alliance?Alliance?This was created by the

conservative Tsar Nicholas I and made up of Prussia, Russia and Austria which threatened to stop the spread of revolution created during the French Revolution.

What was Poland?What was Poland?

This was the country that This was the country that revolted in 1830 and brutally revolted in 1830 and brutally suppressed by Tsar Nicholas suppressed by Tsar Nicholas

I. I.

What was the Crimean War What was the Crimean War ( Florence Nightingale and ( Florence Nightingale and

The Charge of the Light The Charge of the Light Brigade)?Brigade)?

The war that was fought The war that was fought from 1854 to 1856 between from 1854 to 1856 between

Russia v the Ottoman Russia v the Ottoman Empire, France and Great Empire, France and Great

Britain ( some people call it Britain ( some people call it the stupidest war in History). the stupidest war in History).

Who was Tsar Alexander II?Who was Tsar Alexander II?

He was the Russian Tsar He was the Russian Tsar who emancipated the who emancipated the

serfs in 1861. serfs in 1861.

What was the Meiji or What was the Meiji or Enlightened Dynasty? Enlightened Dynasty?

This was the Japanese dynasty that was established in 1868.

Who was Iwasaki Yataro ?Who was Iwasaki Yataro ?

He founded the Mitsubishi company He founded the Mitsubishi company in 1870 and made his fortune in in 1870 and made his fortune in

shippingshipping. .

What was the Sino-Japanese War?

Japan fought this war in 1894-1895 which was the

first step in Imperial expansion and gave them

control of Korea.

Who were the Kulaks?

They were agricultural They were agricultural peasants who owned their peasants who owned their own land and were later own land and were later displaced and starved by displaced and starved by

Stalin.Stalin.

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What was Nagasaki?

This was the Dutch port opened in Japan and where the Japanese were exposed to many modern ideas and

western technology.

Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?He was the United States

commander who through threat of force opened Japan to U.S. trade in

1853.

What were the Terakoya?

They were the commoner They were the commoner schools in Japan which schools in Japan which

taught rudimentary reading, taught rudimentary reading, writing, and Confucianism.writing, and Confucianism.

Who was Sergei Witte?

He was the Russian minister of He was the Russian minister of finance who was a leading promoter finance who was a leading promoter

of industrialization and of industrialization and modernization in Russia.modernization in Russia.

What was the Decembrist Revolt?

This was a rebellion against the new Tsar after the death

of Alexander I led by western oriented army officers in

1825.

Who were the Who were the intelligentsia? intelligentsia?

They were the articulate intellectuals who became more

politically active in the 19th century and wanted radical changes in

Russia.

Who were the Bolsheviks ?

Russian Communist Marxists who Russian Communist Marxists who eventually take over the Russian eventually take over the Russian

government in 1917.government in 1917.

Who were anarchists ??

This describes Russian radicals who sought to abolish all formal

government.

Who was Ivan Pavlov ?Who was Ivan Pavlov ?

He was a Russian physiologist who experimented with a salivating dog and conditioned response. ( sort of

like the trembling caused by the word quiz in students )

What were the What were the zemstvoes?zemstvoes?

They They were local assemblies in Russia which had a say in education, roads and local

regulations.

Who was Mutsuhito ?

He was the first Emperor of the He was the first Emperor of the Meiji Japanese Dynasty.Meiji Japanese Dynasty.

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What were the zaibatsu?What were the zaibatsu?

They were huge industrial were huge industrial complexes created in Japan by complexes created in Japan by

wealthy families.wealthy families.

What was the Diet?What was the Diet?

This was the name given to This was the name given to the Japanese Parliamentthe Japanese Parliament.

What was the Yellow Peril?What was the Yellow Peril?

This was the term that westerners This was the term that westerners gave to the threat of Japanese gave to the threat of Japanese

Imperialism which threatened the Imperialism which threatened the expansion of Western expansion of Western

Imperialism.Imperialism.

What was Alaska?What was Alaska?

In 1867 Russia sells this area to the United States and it was dubbed as “

Seward’s Icebox”.  

What was Siberia in the What was Siberia in the Gulags ?Gulags ?

This is where many political prisoners in Russia were sent to

prison or work camps.

Who were the Dutch Who were the Dutch Studies?Studies?

They were a group of Japanese scholars who advocated western

technology and learning.

Who was Piotyr Stolypin?Who was Piotyr Stolypin?

In 1905 the Russian Tsar appointed him as the interior

minister who instituted reforms to help the

peasantry.

What was the Pan-Slavic What was the Pan-Slavic Movement or Pan-Movement or Pan-

Slavism ? Slavism ?

This was the movement that would unify the Slavic people under

Russian leadership.

What was the Russo-What was the Russo-Japanese War?Japanese War?

( Theodore Roosevelt won a ( Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace prize for Nobel Peace prize for

negotiating the Treaty of negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth) Portsmouth)

The war that was fought in 1905 and was fought in 1905 and revealed a weakness within the revealed a weakness within the Russian military and where two Russian military and where two

Russian fleets were sunk. Russian fleets were sunk.

Who was Vladimir Ilyich Who was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin?Lenin?

He was the leader of the Bolsheviks He was the leader of the Bolsheviks who advocated a proletarian who advocated a proletarian

revolution of the peasants and the revolution of the peasants and the workers. workers.