Key Terms
Key People
Russian Revolution
Stalin's Totalitarianism
Indian Nationalism/Chinese Revolution
100
This term refers to a government with total control over every aspect of citizens' lives, both public and private.
What is totalitarianism?
100
This "Man of Steel" ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist from 1928-1952, rapidly industrializing the Soviet Union while committing numerous atrocities.
Who is Josef Stalin?
100
This was the name of the czar overthrown in the March 1917 Revolution
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
100
Stalin was able to keep his facade of a great, benevolent leader in large part because of this, defined as providing one-sided information in order to persuade people of something.
What is propaganda?
100
Of Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, this country developed a liberal democracy with a secular government.
What is Turkey?
200
This is the public and deliberate refusal to obey an unjust law.
What is Civil Disobedience?
200
This man is considered the "father of the Russian Revolution" as he led the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Revolution and became the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
200
Name at least two causes of the first Russian Revolution.
What is frustration with autocratic rule, poor performance in WWI, bread shortages and worsening conditions for peasants, perceived corruption of the monarchy (with Rasputin's influence)?
200
Millions of people died when Stalin tried to do this, or confiscate all property in the countryside and force people to work on communal farms.
What is collectivization?
200
This commodity brought a lot of money to help develop Middle Eastern countries.
What is oil?
300
This term refers to a government where power is held by only one person, like a monarch or a dictator.
What is an autocracy?
300
This man was famous for using civil disobedience in his nationalist uprisings in India.
Who is Gandhi?
300
This is the primary cause of the October/November 1917 Revolution.
What is the provisional government continued to fight and do poorly in WWI, fixing none of the poor conditions that led to the first revolution?
300
This is the name given to Stalin's campaign of terror in which he executed all his political rivals, particularly members of the military.
What is the Great Purge?
300
This is the name of the Imperial Dynasty in China that was overthrown in the first revolution.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
400
This refers to a classless society in which all people are equal and is also the name of the political party created after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
What is communism?
400
This man led the communists in the Civil War that gripped China after the first nationalist revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
This man led the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
400
Stalin did effectively improve heavy industry in the Soviet Union, largely by implementing target goals and using the command economy to accomplish them in what were known as this numerically themed name.
What are Five Year Plans?
400
Internally, these were the primary supporters of the communists in the Chinese Civil War, while these were the primary supporters of the nationalists in the Chinese Civil War.
What is communists - peasants, urban poor; nationalists - growing middle class, bankers, etc.
500
This term refers to the labor camps in the Soviet Union that Stalin often sent people. They often died because of the harsh conditions.
What is the gulags?
500
This man was the leader of the revolution that toppled Imperial China.
Who is Sun Yixian/Sun Yatsen?
500
Name two reforms that Lenin enacted when he finally consolidated power.
What is the New Economic Policy (consolidating some industries into the state), eliminated all political parties but the communists party, and redistributing some land to landless peasants?
500
Josef Stalin is not a Russian. He comes from this country (part of the former Soviet Union).
What is Georgia?
500
This man led the Chinese Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War after the death of Yuan Shikai and Sun Yixian.
Who is Jiang Jieshi/Chang Kai-Shek?
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