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Leader of communist China during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
Who is Mao Zedong?
Cold War policy of blocking Soviet advances and stopping the expansion of communism
What is containment?
1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society where workers and peasants were all equal. Mao used it to get rid of anti-communist feelings among the Chinese population to increase his power
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Which country no longer has a military as a result of post-World War II agreements?
Who is Japan?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Leader of the Soviet Union during Five Year Plans and gulags
Who is Joseph Stalin?
the separation of a country into two countries
What is partition?
Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy. He wanted to grow more grain to sell to make money so that China could industrialize. Happened 1958-1962. Many people died due to famine
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This is the purpose of NATO
What is defensive military alliance?
plans outlined by Stalin for the development of the Soviet Union's economy, including collectivizing farms
What are the Five Year Plans?
U.S. President who supported sending aid to Western Europe to help it rebuild and fend off communism
Who is Harry Truman?
a large government controlled farm formed by combining many small farms
What is a collective farm?
This proxy war never ended and the peninsula that it occurred on continues to be divided into a northern communist country and a southern democratic country
What is the Korean War?
an economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally
What is communism?
What is capitalism?
Soviet forced labor camp where millions were sent to work and many died during Stalin's rule
The leaders of Great Britain, the U.S., and Russia met here to make a plan for post-war world. They decided to split up control of Germany here.
What is the Yalta Conference?
What are hard work pays off, representative government, and checks on power
The first war the United States ever lost
What is the Korean War?
Leader of China who implemented capitalist reforms to the economic system
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people live and work together, where everything is shared
What is a commune?
Event that happened in 1947 that created two countries: one of them was Pakistan
What is Indian partition?
The reforms to communism in this country were not successful.
What is the Soviet Union? (It collapsed soon after)
This defensive military alliance was formed in response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?