8.4

Question 1

Land reform

Answer 1

the process of governmental re-distributing land

Question 2

Mao Zedong

Answer 2

Communist leader in China who gained support

Question 3

Great Leap Forward

Answer 3

China’s industrialization period that killed millions and was abandoned

Question 4

communes

Answer 4

large agricultural communities owned by the state, not private owners

Question 5

Cultural Revolution

Answer 5

a movement in China after the Great Leap Forward to silence critics of communism and “reeducate” leaders and intellectuals

Question 6

Red Guards

Answer 6

A group of revolutionary students ordered by Mao to seize non-revolutionaries and reeducate them during the Cultural Revolution

Question 7

Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

Answer 7

puppet shah of Iran selected by the Soviets during WW2. He was briefly removed after the war before being re-instated by the US and GB. He was actually a decent shah, if a fascist, and through the White Revolution allowed for women’s rights and land reforms.

Question 8

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Answer 8

democratically elected prime minister of Iran after WW2. He was removed from power by the US and Great Britain when he tried to nationalize oil companies.

Question 9

theocracy

Answer 9

a government with religion as its central power

Question 10

Haile Selassie

Answer 10

Ethiopian leader post-WW2 who led western-style politics until he was seen by the public as a US pawn and was replaced by Mengistu Haile Mariam

Question 11

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Answer 11

Ethiopian socialist leader after Haile Selassie. Socialism failed in the country.

Question 12

White Revolution

Answer 12

Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi’s reforms, known as the WHite Revolution because they came without bloodshed.