Russian Rev, Stalin, Lenin, Chinese Civil War

Question 1

Karl Marx

Answer 1

economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto

Question 2

Communism/Command Economy

Answer 2

All things produced and economy is controlled soley by the government and state

Question 3

Rasputin

Answer 3

Educated Siberian Preacher with “healing powers”

Question 4

Petrograd Soviet

Answer 4

Shared power with PM Alexander Kerensky

council of 2,000 - 3,000 workers, soldiers, led offensive against Germans (fail)

Question 5

Czar Nicholas II

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the Russian Orthodox Church Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, wife took his job

Question 6

VI Lenin

Answer 6

Studied Marxist socialism and radical thinker

first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

Question 7

Bolshevik Revolution

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leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the Duma’s provisional government

Question 8

New Economic Policy (NEP)

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Lenins economy policy in march 1921

Resorted to small scale capitalism, peasants could sell surplus crops

Question 9

Peace Land & Bread

Answer 9

Lenin policies appealed to war torn russians
gain popular support during the struggle for political power in Russia Lenin addressed these concerns in his proclamation

Question 10

Red vs White Army

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Red (pro Lenin) vs White (against Lenin)

Question 11

Gulag

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labor camps for non-supporters

Question 12

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Lenin and Germany sign to leave the war surrendering a large part of its territory

Question 13

Cheka

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“red terror” led by Lenins secret police to imprison opponents

Question 14

Stalin

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Worked to top of Communist party in 1928\
1922
moved friends to positions of power
Russia loved him

Question 15

USSR

Answer 15

Lenin renamed Russia this in 1922

Question 16

5 Year Plan

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Plan for the development of the Soviet Unions Economy

Question 17

Totalitarian Government

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A government that takes total state control over every aspect of public and private life

Question 18

Cult of Personality

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Arises when regime uses mass media to create an idealized, heroic image of a leader

Question 19

Great Purge

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Campaign of terror to eliminate anyone who threatens stalins power

Question 20

Collective Farms/Collectivization

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privately owned farms that were taken away from wealthy peasants and turned into large government owned farms aimed at producing food for the state

Question 21

Kulaks

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wealthy peasants whose privately owned land was taken from them and turned into collective farms (Ukraine)

Question 22

Holodomor

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the Great Famine, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians (Stalin)

Question 23

May 4th Movement

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3,000 angry students gathered at Beijing to protest the Treaty of Versailles

Question 24

Sun Yuxian

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Leader of Chinese Nationalist Party

Question 25

Long March

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Mao led over 600,000 people through mountains over 6,000 miles to avoid being captured by the nationalist government

Question 26

Mao Zedong

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Head of Chinese Communist Party, promised peasants improved living conditions and won support of many Chinese

Question 27

Nationalist Party

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Overthrew the Qing Dynasty in 1911

took over china

Question 28

Peasants

Answer 28

Were promised land and better living conditions from Mao

Joined his communist party

Question 29

Jiang Jieshi/Chiang Kaishek

Answer 29

President of the Nationalist Republic of China

Question 30

October 1st, 1949

Answer 30

Mao declared the creation of the Peoples Republic of China, a communist country