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100

Effects of the great leap forward 

  • caused starvation in China
  • killed many people
  • people were overworked
100

Korean war and Vietnam war- similarities 

  • Similarities:
  • both were divided into North and South
  • North Korea and North Vietnam were both communists
  • North Korea and North Vietnam wanted to united who country under communism
  • Both Norths got help from USSR and China; both Souths got help from the US
100

Fidel castor 

  • led communist revolutions in 1959 overthrowing Cuba’s government
  • led Cuba until 2008
100

After world war 2, the United states and the USSR  became the world's most powerful nations or, 

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superpower 

100

A competition to build weapons in order to dominate another country.

Arms Race

200

details about Stalin's totalitarian state 

  • changed USSR from a peasant society to a leading military and industrial power
  • built hundreds of factories and forced ppl to work in them
  • farmers had to join collectives which caused foods shortages and killed millions
  • people who opposed his ideas were killed or imprisoned in purges
200

china and Eastern Europe differences during the 1980s

  • freedom movements in Eastern Europe; held elections and had new governments
  • China remained communist and did not allow elections
  • When young Chinese student revolted for democracy, China killed them
200

Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Soviet leader who came into power in 1985
  • enacted big changes
  • signed treaty limiting nuclear weapons
  • introduced policies such as perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness)
  • knew USSR couldn’t afford to continue arms race
  • countries broke ties with USSR during his reign
200

Stalin ruled the USSR as a -----------------------         state- a state in which the government has total control over peoples's lives.  

Totalitarian

200

To block traffic from passing

Blockade

300

effects of communism during 20th century

  • only five out of 20 countries remained communist after 1970s
  • caused many revolutions against communism
  • made the countries’ economies poor
  • many people went hungry because communist countries did not grown enough food
  • non-communist countries did not want to trade with communist countries
  • Korea and Vietnam split and had civil wars
  • led to Cold War & arms race because US wanted to stop the spread of communism
  • Communist government had too much control over the people
300

Korean war and Vietnam war differences

  • Differences:
  • Neither North nor South Korea won the war
  • North Vietnam won war which united the country under communism
300

Vladimir Lenin

  • headed the Soviet Union after Russian Revolution
  • came before Stalin
  • opened up the way to the Russian Revolution
  • leader of the Bolshevik Party
  • wanted communism to spread
300

Warlord

a military commander with civil power over a region

300

cold war

The period of tension between the united states and the soviet union after world war 2

400

Russian Revolution in 1917

  • Russian people were angry with czar because his reforms didn’t really help them with their problems
  • The people couldn’t afford to feed themselves; couldn’t afford to pay taxes
  • People were also angry about Russia’s WWI involvement
  • Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Lenin though it was time for a communist government for Russia
  • In early 1917, Russian people revolted
  • The czar was forced to give up leader when his army betrayed him by joining the revolution
  • A temporary government as setup
  • Later in year, the Bolshevik Party overthrew government and set up their own
  • Russia withdrew from WWI
400

Karl Marx 

  • developed the idea that it was unfair that property owners made money while others did work
  • developed communism in the 1800s
  • encouraged workers to revolt against system
  • wrote Communist Manifesto
400

Soviet

 is an elected council in a communist country

400

A   -----------------------  is a farm owned by government, where everyone has to work together as a group.

collective  

500

soviet Union's economy in 1980s

  • economy was weak
  • food shortages and shortages of other goods
  • why? because they spent too much on military to keep up in arms race
  • led to breakup of USSR into independent nations
  • Details about Stalin’s totalitarian state
500

Mao Zedong 

  • left home at 14 to escape arranged marriage
  • became follower of Revolutionary Leader Sun Yat-Sen at 17
  • cut off his pigtail showing he’s no longer loyal to emperor
  • believed China should modern country
  • became leader of people’s republic of China in 1949
  • succeeded in building industry
  • His second plan, the Great Leap Forward, tried to change economy
  • blamed China’s problems on people who were no true communists
  • killed or imprisoned those who disagreed with him
  • ordered a Cultural Revolution in China to cut people’s ties with past
  • sent the educated to jail, work camps, or killed them
  • became Communist leader of China
500

czar

an emperor of Russia 

500

During the Vietnam war, American men between the ages 18 and 25 could be --------------------, or required to Join the military and fight  in the war

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