Russia
China
Cold War
Leaders
Wild Card
100
The Soviet Union began this process to increase the power and strength of the Union.
What is industrialization?
100
China saw a period of political breakdown and decentralization following the end of this dynasty in 1911.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
100
Both Joseph Stalin through the Five-Year Plan and Mao Zedong through the Great Leap forward clearly supported increasing the output of these.
What is and Agriculture?
100
This leader ruled from 1964-1982 and saw uprisings in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Who was Leonid Brezhnev?
100
This Nuclear disaster more than likely would have gone unnoticed if radiation from the event was not detected hundreds of Kilometers away.
What is Chernobyl?
200
One of the first things Lenin did as leader of the Soviet Union was institute this policy, restoring limited economic freedoms and boosting agricultural production.
What is the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
200
What is the May Fourth Movement?
200
Leaders like Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro rose to power thanks to popular support from this group.
What is the Peasantry?
200
This leader oversaw much of the Korean war and relieved General Douglas MacArthur over disagreements about how the war was conducted.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
200
What is the Tet Offensive?
300
This leader, upon taking control of the Soviet Union after Lenin, continued the NEP.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
This Chinese Nationalist leader, unlike his predecessor, was actively and openly antagonistic towards Chinese Communists.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
300
The Soviet Union maintained a buffer zone between themselves and the rest of Europe by supporting Communist-sympathetic Eastern European countries known as these.
What are Satellite states?
300
This leader ruled from 1985-1991 and introduced policies like Glasnost and Perestroika to the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
This soda company became the sixth largest naval force in the world for a brief time following an unorthodox deal to secure Soviet distribution rights.
What is Pepsi?
400
This agricultural policy which combined farms and put harvests under state control led to widespread food shortages throughout the Soviet Union.
What is collectivization?
400
China instituted this plan in 1958 in an effort to "modernize" China and curry favor with US policy makers.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
This idea is what kept the Soviet Union and the United States from entering into open conflict with each other. put simply, it kept the Cold War cold.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
400
This leader led a revolution to overthrow the dictator of his country, thereafter becoming at odds with the United States who later tried and failed to have him overthrown.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
This image taken at Tiananmen Square became one of the most poignant symbols of resistance to authority.
What is the Tank Man?
500
This political phase in Russia's history is characterized by Autocratic Government, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Extreme Nationalism.
What is Czarist Russia?
500
This protest took place in 1989 spearheaded by Student calling for democracy in China.
What is Tiananmen Square?
500
This crisis nearly brought both the US and the USSR into a Nuclear Conflict.
Wat is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This man led the Khmer Rouge party in Cambodia, which was responsible for a genocide in an attempt to establish a pure agricultural Communist utopia.
Who is Pol Pot?
500
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Forest Gump all have one thing in common: they feature scenes from this conflict.
What is the Vietnam War?