1. Bolshevik: the Bolshevik are the majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Party. They were named as such because they won most of the vital issues in the Second Party Congress. The group was founded and headed by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov.
2. Bourgeoisie: they are the people making up the middle class. They are the people living in cities and in affluence, as opposed to the proletariat. They have the rights to citizenship as well as politics. The bourgeoisie are the working force of the capitalists, and are tasked to work to maintain the capitalists' reign in the market.
3. Czar: A czar is a male monarch or emperor of Russia before 1917. The word is taken from the Russian term for "ruler/emperor". Nowadays, the title is used to refer to high-level officials who are capable of organizing and running governmental departments .
4. Menshavik: are the members of the liberal minority group of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The group is lead by Julius Matov and were the enemy faction of the Bolshevik in the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
5. Proletariat: the proletariat are the poorest class of working people in the society. The only value of the proletariat lies in their ability to work for others. According to the Marxist theory, the proletariat do not own the means of production and they only serve as the labor power.
The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, the "Rough Riders" was the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in May 1898 to join the volunteer cavalry. The original plan for this unit called for filling it with men from the Indian Territory, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. However, once Roosevelt joined the group, it quickly became the place for a mix of troops ranging from Ivy League athletes to glee-club singers to Texas Rangers and Indians.
Rough riders grave sites
The graves of the Rough Riders
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Roosevelt and the commander of the unit Colonel Leonard Wood trained and supplied the men so well at their camp in San Antonio, Texas, that the Rough Riders was allowed into the action, unlike many other volunteer companies. They went to Tampa at the end of May and sailed for Santiago de Cuba on June 13. There they joined the Fifth Corps, another highly trained, well supplied, and enthusiastic group consisting of excellent soldiers from the regular army and volunteers.
The Rough Riders saw battle at Las Guásimas when General Samuel B. M. Young was ordered to attack at this village, three miles north of Siboney on the way to Santiago. Although it was not important to the outcome of the war, news of the action quickly made the papers. They also made headlines for their role in the Battle of San Juan Hill, which became the stuff of legend thanks to Roosevelt's writing ability and reenactments filmed long after.
Spain spent much of the 1920s under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, and the economic hardships caused by the Great Depression intensified polarization within the Spanish public. Labor unrest was widespread in the early 1930s, and the election of February 16, 1936, brought to power a leftist Popular Front government. Fascist and extreme-right forces responded in July 1936 with an army mutiny and coup attempt that expanded into a civil war.
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