The Russian Revolution
He was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
The Great Depression began in this country.
What is the United States?
During World War II, the Americans used this strategy to move towards Japan.
What is island-hopping?
This was the name of the American policy for controlling and limiting the Soviet Union.
What is Containment?
The leader of China during the Communist Revolution.
Who was Mao Zedong?
This leader controlled the Soviet Union after Lenin's death from 1929-1953.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This policy was an attempt to preserve peace and avoid a second world war.
What is appeasement?
Japan, Italy and Germany were known as this.
What is the Axis Powers?
The belief that when one nation fell to communism, the surrounding countries would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
This country, led by Ho Chi Minh, became communist in 1954.
What is North Vietnam?
This organization was formed at the end of World War I, but the United States never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
This political theory was developed by Karl Marx, advocating a class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States were known as this.
What are the Allied Powers?
After World War II, Europe was divided by this political, military, and ideological barrier.
What is the iron curtain?
The name for the Chinese communist plan to improve China's economy and industry.
What is The Great Leap Forward?
This system of government was used in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution.
What is an absolute monarchy?
A mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.
What is Fascism?
Hitler's plan to systematically destroy all European Jews was known as this.
What is "the final solution"?
This Soviet leader established "perestroika" and glasnost to restructure the USSR and encourage transparency.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The name for the communist government that controlled Cambodia from 1975-1979.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This slogan was designed to inspire to join the Russian Revolutoin.
What is Peace! Land! Bread!?
This was the form of government in Japan leading up to, and during World War II.
What was Authoritarianism?
One of the major purposes of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was to do this.
What is decide how to reorganize Germany & Europe?
This American-backed invasion of Cuba failed and helped lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was The Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This war was fought between 1951-1953 over whether the country should become communist.
What is the Korean War?