This... is... 20th Century Revolutions Jeopardy!

Russia

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He was the biggest leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Who is Vladimir Lenin?

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The Russian Revolution meant that Russia’s name changed to this.

What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?

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This is the term used for the radical Marxists of the Russian Revolution.

What are Bolsheviks?

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This is the type of government that Stalin used, that had complete control on all aspects of life. 

What is totalitarianism?

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The period of time when Stalin was eliminating any opposition to him, including murdering people and erasing them from documents and photos, was called this.

What is the Great Purge?

China

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He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

Who is Mao Zedong?

1

This was the 6,000 mile walk through the Chinese countryside made by the Communist army during the civil war.

What is the Long March?

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In Communist China, the peasants were forced to work on these massive collective farms.

What are communes?

1

What event in 1937 halted the Chinese civil war?

The Japanese launched an all out invasion of China

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A national protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference.

May Fourth Movement

Southwest Asia

1

At the end of World War I, which nation was all that remained of the Ottoman Empire?

Turkey

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He was the first president of Turkey.

Who is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?

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The new Turkey rapidly went through these two transformational trends.

What are modernization and Westernization?

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In which nation did Reza Shah Pahlavi embark on a program of modernization after seizing power?

Iran

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They were the rulers of Turkey before it gained its independence.

What is the Ottoman Empire?

More Russia

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 In this type of economy, all of the economic decisions are made by the central government.

Command Economy

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Work or labor camps, where political criminals were shipped off to, often in Siberia, where they faced a horrible fate.

Gulags

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Commander of the Red Army, helped negotiate a WWI peace with Germany, later exiled by Stalin.

Leon Trotsky

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a large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms

Collectivization

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Name 3 out of 5 ways Stalin gained, consolidated, and maintained power in the Soviet Union

Shifting Political Alliances

Propaganda

Command Economy: Five Year Plans

Command Economy: Collectivization

Secret Police and Great Purges

Cultural and Ideological Control

Anything Goes

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Who was the first president of the Republic of China?

Sun Yixian

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What was the name of Stalin’s economic plan?

5 year plan

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This was the name of Lenin's policy to address the problems of "War Communism." It did the following:

1. Ended grain requisitioning by the government
2. Revival of private trade and small businesses reopened
3. Peasants are allowed to keep their surpluses and sell them to make a profit
4. A new Rouble in 1922

New Economic Policy

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What does Stalin mean?

"Man of Steel"

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What was Lenin’s slogan?

Peace, Land, and Bread