Deck 22: D: Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict the Rise and Fall of World Communism 1917-Present

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Process of rural reform undertaken by the communist leadership of both the USSR and China in which private property rights were abolished and peasants were forced onto larger and more industrialized farms to work and share the proceeds as a community rather than as individuals.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 1

collectivization

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Long process in the period 1912-1949 that began with the overthrow of the Chinese imperial system and ended with the triumph of the Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 2

Chinese Revolution

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A massive campaign launched by Mao Zedong in the mid-1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that he believed reached into even the highest ranks of the Communist Party.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 3

Cultural Revolution

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 whose efforts to reform the USSR led to its collapse.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Gorbachev's reform policy of openness,which permitted an unprecedented range of cultural and intellectual freedoms.Far from strengthening socialism and reviving a stagnant Soviet Union,the reforms led to its further weakening and collapse.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Leader of China from 1976 to 1997 whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A massive attempt in the 1930s to cleanse the Soviet Union of supposed "enemies of the people";nearly a million people were executed between 1936 and 1941,and 4 million or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Leader of the Bolsheviks who believed that Russia,despite its industrial backwardness,was nonetheless ready for a socialist revolution that would spark further revolutions in the more developed countries of Europe.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Chairman of China's Communist Party and de facto ruler of China from 1949 until his death in 1976.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Massive revolutionary upheaval hat overthrew the Romanov dynasty and ended with the seizure of power by communists under the leadership of Lenin.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Bold economic program launched in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev with the intention of freeing up Soviet industry and businesses.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Euphemistic expression for the often forcible transformation of society when a communist regime came to power in a state.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The Chinese Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until its overthrow by the communists in 1949.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on an island near the coast of the United States;the confrontation ended in compromise.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Russian revolutionary party led by Vladimir Lenin and later renamed the Communist Party.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Women's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1930;it worked to promote equality for women.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 18

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Name assumed by Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili (1878-1953),leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 19

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Born to a Russian peasant family in 1916 she lived through the communist experience of her country.Her life illustrates the complexities that ordinary citizens faced as they sought to navigate the communist system.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 20

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A successful popular insurrection led by Fidel Castro that transformed his country into a Marxist socialist state.It resulted in improved health,education,literacy,and living standards.It did not result in a truly democratic system,and thus the gains were accompanied by sharp restraints on personal freedoms and mixed results in the economy.

A)Russian Revolution (1917)
B)Bolsheviks
C)Lenin
D)Guomindang
E)Mao Zedong
F)Chinese Revolution
G)Stalin
H)building socialism
I)Zhenotdel
J)collectivization
K)Cultural Revolution
L)Great Purges/Terror
M)Anna Dubova
N)Cuban Revolution
O)Cuban missile crisis
P)Nikita Khrushchev
Q)Deng Xiaoping
R)perestroika
S)glasnost
T)Mikhail Gorbachev