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Stalin's birth name.
What is Joseph Dzhugashvili.
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This group, which included Jiang Qing was the instrument through which Mao ran the Cultural Revolution.
What is the Central Cultral Revolution Group.
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These campaigns against the CCP ran from 1930 until 1934.
What is the 'encirclement campaigns'.
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The foreign policy adopted by Germany at the end of the 19th century by which she sought to assert her influence around the globe.
What is 'Weltpolitik'.
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Communist supply line during the Vietnam War.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Decision making body of the Communist Party set up in 1919. Took over from the Central Committee as the most influential body.
What is Politburo.
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The two major causes of the collapse of the food supply during the Great Leap Foward.
What is collectivisation and 'Lysenkoism'.
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At this conference Mao established his leadership of the CCP.
What is the 'Zunyi Conference".
200
League, formed in 1911 to fight Turkey.
What is the Balkan League (Serbia, Bulgaria Montenegro and Greece).
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Some historians think de-Stalinisation influenced Moa's introduction of this campaign.
What is The Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1957.
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Collective farm where land was owned and run by the state. Peasants who worked on the farm were paid a regular wage.
What is sovkhoz.
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An economic growth rate of about 9% resulted from this.
What is the first Five Year Plan (1952 - 1956)
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Campaigns during the Civil War to reinforce communist ideology. They quickly became campaigns against intellectuals and then anyone whowas not in line with communist thinking. More than 10,000 people were killed.
What is he 'Rectification Campaigns'.
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The second Balkan war in 1913 was mainly between these two countries.
What is Serbia and Bulgaria.
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Ho's southern supporters gave themselves this name. Americans and Diem called them the Vietcong.
What is National Liberation Front.
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Era - within the Terror - during 1937 and 1938 in which both the party and all 'Anti-Soviet Elements' in the broader community were targeted.
What is 'Yezhovshchina'.
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This work, performed between 1961 and 1963, told the story of a court official who was demoted and punished after bravely defying the orders of a cruel emperor. It was seen as critical of Mao.
What is 'The Dismissal of Hai Rui from office', by Wu Han.
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This incident ensured the formation of the second united front.
What is the Xi'an incident', or the kidnapping of JiagJieshi by Warlord Zhang.
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German Chancellor in 1914.
Who is Bethmann-Hollweg.
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Group of inexperienced men who replaced Li Lisan and Mao Zedong in the early 1930s
What is the 'Twenty-Eight Bolsheviks'.
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Russian book, released in 1938 which significantly enhanced the cult of personality by reinterpreting history in Stalin's favour.
What is the 'History of the All-Union Communist Party' or 'Short Course'.
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A report in 1962 which stated that 20% of the population of Tibet had been Jailed and half of these had died in prison. It also exposed the truth about the famine.
What is The Panchen Lama's report of 1962.
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This excellent military commander transformed the PLA from a guerilla fighting force into a regular army.
Who is Lin Biao.
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This event on 16 March 1968 invovlved the murder of hundreds of unarmed civilians, beatings and rapes, and the poisoning of wells.
What is My Lai Massacre.
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CIA introduced system whereby tens of thousands of VC were captured and interrogated. Few came out alive. Torture was the norm.
What is Operation Phoenix.