Communists Events Review Flashcards
Which group supported the communist takeover of Russia and China?
Peasant Majority
What similarity existed between the Reign of Terror in France and the Cultural Revolution in China?
use of violent methods to make change/ eliminate opponents
Which communist leader is associated with the Long March , Five-Year Plans for modernization, the Great Leap Forward, communes, and the Cultural Revolution?
Mao Zedong
What was the goal of Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations?
Improve the economy through trade market reform- Agriculture, Industry, Defense, and Science
What goal was shared by both Peter the Great of Russia and Deng Xiaoping in China?
westernization
What change occurred in Hong Kong, China in 1997?
British ended control, returned Hong Kong to China
How were the leadership of Mao Zedong of China, Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, and King Jong II of North Korea similar?
Marxist Communist Leaders
Which nation is closely associated with Ho Chi Minh and a conflict with the USA from 1963-1973?
Vietnam
Which policy was followed by the USA through the 1950s and 1960s regarding the spread of communism?
Containment
The USA used the domino theory to justify which two wars?
Korea and Vietnam
Which two leaders used purges in order to maintain control?
Soviet Union: Stalin
China- Mao Zedong
How were the goals of Stalin’s 5-Year Plans and Zedong’s Great Leap Forward similar?
improve agricultural and industrial output
How were the causes of Korean and Vietnam War similar?
Different political systems at odds during the Cold War
The French, Mexican, Russian, and Communist (Chinese) Revolution were all supported by each nation’s ____________ majority.
peasant
Why was the main cause of the development of the Cold War after WWII?
Soviet Union invaded Eastern Europe- military domination of region, spread of communism
Which nation has had the greatest impact of modern Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet?
China
Which nation’s is most associated with the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot and the communist “killing fields”?
Cambodia
Which nation was first to adopt Communism in 1917?
Russia
Why was the communist takeover of (agrarian) Russia a contradiction to Karl Marx’s theory about the rise of communism?
Revolt did not take place in an industrial nation of factory workers
What did Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik (communist) party promise the peasants to win their support to overthrow the car?
Peace, Land, Bread (took land from nobility which was the czar’s family)
How did Mussolini’s Fascist government and Stalin’s communist government deal with political opponents?
suppression and violence
Why did Gorbachev introduce the policy of perestroika?
perestroika- introduced capitalism
improve the economy and economic stagnation
What was the main cause of the satellites breaking free from the Soviet control AND the Soviet republics declaring independence from one another?
ethnic diversity caused conflict and desire for self-rule
Why did the region of Chechnya, Russia begin to demand self-determination in the 1990s?
Protest Russia not allowing Muslim region an independent homeland
Which leader is most associated with “shock therapy”, being the first elected leader of Russia and his increasing the power of DUMA?
Boris Yeltsin
What is the best known symbol of the collapse of communism in Europe/ Soviet Union?
Berlin Wall 1989
Why did the economic system associated with communism (called command) fail in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?
lack of incentives to work hard, fail to produce
Why did Khrushchev and Brezhnev send communist, military troop into Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
End revolts and maintain control of the satellites
Which was true of the treatment of opponents by Nikita Khrushchev in the USSR and Pol Pot in Cambodia?
Dissidents (opposition) jailed, tortured, and killed
Which individual is most associated with the communist theory of a worker revolution in an industrial nation and the shared ownership of the means of production?
Karl Marx
Which world event is most associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War?
Cold War
How was the state of Korea and Germany after WWII similar?
divided
What do the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster and the air pollution caused by industrial factories in China say about technology?
dangerous, causes problems
Which policy was shared by the following leaders; Hitler of Germany, Pol Pot of Cambodia, Suddam Hussein of Iraq, and S. Milosevic of Yugoslavia?
genocide
Which leader is most associated with Glasnost, New Thinking, Perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union’s empire?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What event set off the mass migration of Afghans to Pakistan?
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
What set off the Tienanmen Square massacre in China?
Demands for individual rights
Which superpower is most associated with the rise of Communism in Cuba?
Soviet Union
What has been the greatest obstacle to unity and progress in Eastern Europe since the collapse of the USSR?
Ethnic tension
What was the main purpose and goal behind the Soviet policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?
stimulate economy
Which Cold War event signaled the collapse of The Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?
Fall of Berlin Wall
Hungarian workers demanding food, Polish unions demanding change, and Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia demanding self-determination are all associated with Communist ___________ nations after WWII.
satellite
Which nations are most associated with genocide AFTER WWII?
Europe: Yugoslavia
Asia: Cambodia
Which newly independent nation is associated with millions of wealthy farmers (Kulaks) being starved to death under the leadership of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union?
Ukraine
How are the treatment of untouchables in India, Jews during the Holocaust, students demonstrating in Tiananmen Square, and Buddhist monks in Tibet similar?
They are considered ________ _________ violations
Human Rights
