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| 3995625267 | 1. Congress of Vienna | conservation, reactionary meeting, led by Prince Metternich, restore Europe to preRevolutionary time | 0 | |
| 3995625268 | 2. Holy Alliance | 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 | 1 | |
| 3995625269 | 3. Decembrist uprising | political revolt in Russia in 1825; led by middle-level army officers who advocated reforms; put down by Tsar Nicholas I | 2 | |
| 3995625270 | 4. Alexander I | 1815; Russian tsar who supported conservatives and joined the Holy Alliance | 3 | |
| 3995625271 | 5. Nicholas I | 1825-1855; Russian tsar who put down the Decembrist Uprising, expanded territory and crushed liberal ideas | 4 | |
| 3995625272 | 6. Alexander II | the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs | 5 | |
| 3995625273 | 7. Crimean War | war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire aided by France and Britain over the Holy Land | 6 | |
| 3995625274 | 8. Emancipation of the serfs | Alexander II in 1861 ended serfdom in Russia; serfs did not obtain political rights and had to pay the aristocracy for lands gained | 7 | |
| 3995625275 | 9. Zemstvos | local political councils created as part of Alexander II's reforms; gave middle class professional experience in government but did not influence national policy | 8 | |
| 3995625276 | 10. Trans-Siberian railroad | constructed during the 1870s and 1880s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; increased the Russian role in Asia | 9 | |
| 3995625277 | 11. Count Witte | Russian minister of finance (1892-1903); economic modernizer responsible for high tariffs, improved banking system; encouraged Western investment in industry | 10 | |
| 3995625278 | 12. Intelligentsia | 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 | 11 | |
| 3995625279 | 13. Anarchists | political groups that thought the abolition of formal government as a first step to creating a better society; became important in Russia and was the modern world's first large terrorist movement | 12 | |
| 3995625280 | 14. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin | Russian Marxist leader; insisted on the importance of disciplined revolutionary cells | 13 | |
| 3995625281 | 15. Bolsheviks | literally the majority party, but actually a minority group; the most radical branch of the Russian Marxist movement | 14 | |
| 3995625282 | 16. Russian Revolution of 1905 | defeat by Japan resulted marked by strikes by urban workers and insurrections among the peasantry; resulted in temporary reforms | 15 | |
| 3995625283 | 17. Dutch studies | studies of Western science and technology beginning during the 18th century; based on texts available at the Dutch Nagasaki trading center | 16 | |
| 3995625284 | 18. Diet | legislative branch in Japan | 17 | |
| 3995625285 | 19. Duma | Russian national assembly created as one of the reforms following the Revolution of 1905; progressively stripped of power during the reign of Nicholas II | 18 | |
| 3995625286 | 20. Stolypin reforms | 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 | 19 | |
| 3995625287 | 21. Yellow Peril | U.S fear of Japan's imperialism | 20 | |
| 3995625288 | 22. Kulaks | agricultural entrepreneurs who utilized the Stolypin reforms to buy more land and increase production | 21 | |
| 3995625289 | 23. Terakoya | 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 | 22 | |
| 3995625290 | 24. Matthew Perry | American naval officer; in 1853 insisted under threat of bombardment on the opening of ports to American trade | 23 | |
| 3995625291 | 25. Meiji Restoration | power of the emperor restored with Emperor Mutsuhito in 1868; took name of Meiji, the Enlightened One; ended shogunate and began a reform period | 24 | |
| 3995625292 | 26. Zaibatsu | huge industrial combines created in Japan during the 1890s | 25 | |
| 3995625293 | 27. Sino-Japanese War | War fought between China and Japan; after Korea was opened to Japanese trade in 1876, it rapidly became an arena for rivalry between the expanding Japanese state and neighboring China | 26 | |
| 3995625294 | 28. Russo-Japanese War | Russia and Japan were fighting over Korea, Manchuria, etc.; began in 1904, but neither side could gain a clear advantage and win; both sent reps to Portsmouth, NH were TR mediated the Treaty of New Hampshire in 1905 | 27 |
