History GCSE
Armed conflict
What Armed conflict means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Armed conflict
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The Civil War of 1918–21, which erupted due to widespread opposition to Bolshevik rule and involved the White armies, foreign intervention and Trotsky's Red Army.
Topics that use Armed conflict
- Option 30: Key topic 2: The Bolsheviks in power, 1917–24 - 2 The Civil War, 1918–21 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Foreign intervention
- Geographical advantages
- Ideological struggle
- Leadership and organisation
- State centralisation
- Trotsky
- Weaknesses of the Whites
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