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WORLD CHAPTER 28 EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Stolypin reforms
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Russian minister who introduced reforms intended to placate the peasantry after the Revolution of 1905; included reduction of land redemption payments and an attempt to create a market-oriented peasantry.
Question 2: trans-Siberian railroad
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constructed during the 1870s and 1880s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; increased the Russian role in Asia.
Question 3: Yellow peril
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Western term for perceived threat from Japanese imperialism.
Question 4: terakoya
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commoner schools founded during the Tokugawa shogunate to teach reading, writing, and Confucian rudiments; by mid-19th century resulted in the highest literacy rate outside of the West.
Question 5: Diet
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Japanese parliament established as part of the constitution of 1889; able to advise government but not control it.
Question 6: kulaks
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agricultural entrepreneurs who used the Stolypin reforms to buy more land and increase production.
Question 7: duma
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Russian national assembly created as one of the reforms following the Revolution of 1905; progressively stripped of power during the reign of Nicholas II.
Question 8: Sergei Witte
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Russian minister of finance (1892-1903); economic modernizer responsible for high tariffs, improved banking system; encouraged Western investment in industry.
Question 9: zemstvoes
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local political councils created as part of Alexander II's reforms; gave middle-class professionals experience in government but did not influence national policy.
Question 10: emancipation of the serfs
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Alexander II in 1861 ended serfdom in Russia; serfs did not obtain political rights and had to pay the aristocracy for lands gained.
Question 11: Crimean War (1854-1856)
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began with a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire; France and Britain joined on the Ottoman side; resulted in a Russian defeat because of Western industrial might; led to Russian reforms under Alexander II.
Question 12: Bolsheviks
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literally the majority party, but actually a minority group; the most radical branch of the Russian Marxist movement; led by Lenin.
Question 13: Dutch Studies
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studies of Western science and technology beginning during the 18h century; based on texts available at the Dutch Nagasaki trading center.
Question 14: Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
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fought in Korea between Japan and Qing China; Japanese victory demonstrated its arrival as new industrial power.
Question 15: anarchists
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political groups that thought the abolition of formal government was a first step to creating a better society; became important in Russia and was the modern world's first large terrorist movement.
Question 16: Matthew Perry
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American naval officer; in 1853 insisted under threat of bombardment on the opening of ports to American trade.
Question 17: Holy Alliance
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alliance between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in defense of the established order; formed by the most conservative monarchies of Europe during the Congress of Vienna.
Question 18: Decembrist rising
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unsuccessful 1825 political revolt in Russia by mid-level army officers advocating reforms.
Question 19: Russo-Japanese War
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1904; Russian expansion into northern China leads to war; rapid Japanese victory followed.
Question 20: zaibatsu
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huge industrial combines created in Japan during the 1890s.
Question 21: Lenin (Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov)
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Russian Marxist leader; insisted on the importance of disciplined revolutionary cells.
Question 22: intelligentsia
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Russian term for articulate intellectuals as a class; desired radical change in the Russian political and economic system; wished to maintain a Russian culture distinct from the West.
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