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Hoover moratorium – US President
Hoover announced a 1-yr moratorium
(stop) on all payments of German debts.
END OF REPARATIONS.
MacDonald - Labour party prime minister
in Britain who organized a moderate

national government , a coalition of
conservative, liberal, and labour parties.
Easter uprising, 1916, Dublin, Ireland- a
nationalist uprising that wanted to
establish an Irish independent state. The
British suppressed it, though. The
Germans funded the this so the uprising
would distract the British from WWI.
Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army-
Rebel leadership shifted to the Sinn Fein
extremists [“ourselves alone”]. They Used
their army, The Irish Republican Army, for
a civil war between the military wing of
the Sinn Fein [the Irish Republican Army]
and the British Army.
Irish Free State- treaty was declared, and
the Irish Free State was made—became
the Republic of Ireland.
Ulster- 6 mostly Protestant counties of
Ulster wanted to stay within the United
Kingdom . It became known as Northern
Ireland.
Popular Front- a political group that came
to power in France ; made of socialists,
radicals, and Communist s. They had
major reforms : 40-hr work week, paid
vacations .
France also made the Maginot line
between French border and Germany.
However, in WWII, Germans crossed into
France through Belgium, the same way
they came before (bypassing Maginot).
Trotsky- the Red Army in Russia was
under the control of this man . He helped
Lenin rule, who was the symbol of
worldwide revolution.
Cheka- secret police in the Soviet Union
that came after the revolution, to put
down opposition.
War Communism- Lenin’s economic
policy that enabled the government to
confiscate farms + collectivize them . They
used the Civil War in Russia as an excuse
for suppressing resistance to their
policies .
New Economic Policy [NEP]- in response
to growing discontent with the Bolshevik
party and policies, Lenin made this policy
which allowed peasants to make profit
and sell extra grain— a mild form of
capitalism .
Third International (Comintern)- the
Soviet communists made this European
socialist movement . Any Socialist party
who wanted to join the Comintern had to
adopt 21 policies : accept Marx leadership,
adopt Communist name, etc.
Stalin- after Lenin died, Stalin and Trotsky
fought for control of the Soviet Union .
Stalin opposed Trotsky’s policies and
wanted to continue the NEP and
industrialization . Said Socialism could be
achieved in Russia alone . STALIN
Eventually got leadership of USSR .
Gosplan- a Soviet planning commission
for rapid industrialization . A series of 5-yr
plans that set goals for production in
every economic area - Collectivization, but
also removed enemies, including kulaks.
collectivization- the replacement of
private peasant farms with huge state-run
and state-owned farms called collectives .