World History Chapter 21 – Flashcards

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Which of the following Latin American countries established a communist government allied with the Soviet Union?
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Cuba
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Why has 1989 been dubbed a "miracle year"?
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Popular movements toppled communist governments throughout Eastern Europe.
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What was the Zhenotdel?
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It was the name given to a special organization within the Communist Party that dealt with women's affairs.
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During the 1980s, with what did China's leadership associate democracy?
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The chaos of the Cultural Revolution
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Which of the following did the Bolsheviks promise to the people of Russia?
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Land for peasants
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President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation in the 1950s about
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the military-industrial complex.
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Which of the following was an important difference between the industrial histories of the Soviet Union and China?
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Only the Soviets came to accept that industrialization and urbanization required that a new set of privileged elites emerge.
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Which of the following is true of the nuclear standoff during the cold war?
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Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, both powers continued to expand their arsenals.
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What policies did Chinese communists pursue which helped to attract women to the struggle?
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They experimented with land reform that offered men and women equal shares.
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Which of the following reflected the limits of the feminist movements in the Soviet Union and China?
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Women very rarely appeared in the top political leadership of either country.
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What did the Russian and Chinese revolutions share in common with the French Revolution?
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A vision of the good society in a modernizing future
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Which of the following made modernization more difficult in China than in Russia?
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The larger population in China
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In contrast to China, the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union
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was marked by extensive violence and the execution or deportation of wealthier peasants.
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In what respect did the communist movements in the twentieth century depart from Marxist theory?
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They occurred in largely agrarian societies.
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How did the cold war affect countries emerging from colonial rule in the second half of the twentieth century?
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Both the United States and the Soviet Union gave them military and economic aid in the hope of gaining their support.
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Which of the following contributed to American global influence in the decades following World War II?
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Rapid economic growth based on capitalist models
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What did the different expressions of global communism in the twentieth century share in common?
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A common ideology derived from European Marxism
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Which of the following was a value emphasized in the socialist modernity of communist states?
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Equality
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Which of the following events in China was most similar to the search for ?enemies of the people? in the Soviet Terror of the late 1930s?
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The Cultural Revolution
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Which of the following reflects a consequence of the policy of glasnost in the Soviet Union not intended by the leadership in Moscow?
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Leaders of nationalist movements accused the Soviet leadership of treating non-Russian areas as colonies to be exploited.
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In the twenty-first century, international tensions born of communism remain in
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East Asia and the Caribbean.
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Which of the following was a feature of both Soviet and Chinese reforms in the 1980s and 1990s?
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Welcoming foreign investment in joint enterprises
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Which statement best describes the revolutionary strategy used by Chinese communists to seize power?
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They focused on securing the support of China's rural population.
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Which of the following statements is true of early communist China?
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Its educational system was much less developed than that of the Soviet Union.
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Why was the United States able to pursue triangular diplomacy with China and the Soviet Union in the 1970s?
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Because of their growing enmity, both China and the Soviet Union were keen to establish separate relations with the United States.
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What impact did the civil war that raged from 1918 to 1921 have on Russian society?
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Many lower-class men found opportunities for social mobility.
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Which of the following events is associated with Tiananmen Square?
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The mass slaughter of pro-democracy Chinese demonstrators
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Why did communist regimes generate terror and violence on such a massive scale?
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Perceived enemies came to include high-ranking members and long-term supporters of the Communist Party.
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What did "building socialism" mean to Communist Party leaders?
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Modernization and industrialization
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Which American president and Soviet leader negotiated a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev
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In the revolutionary period, which of the following sectors of the Chinese population provided essential support for Chinese communists?
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Peasants
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Which of the following was an outcome of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?
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Mao had to call the army out to restore order and to stop violence that threatened civil war.
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Which of the following best describes the communist world in the second half of the twentieth century?
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Rivalry and hostility marked the communist world as much or more than solidarity and cooperation.
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How did the new leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev characterize his predecessor Joseph Stalin in a speech to the party congress in 1956?
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As a leader who committed crimes against fellow party members
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In the 1950s, an intense wave of fear of communists and their political repression in the United States was known as
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McCarthyism.
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Which of the following best reflects the situation in Eastern Europe following World War II?
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Local communist parties in Eastern Europe enjoyed some support after World War II because of their role in resisting the Nazis.
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Which of the following was a result of urbanization in both China and the Soviet Union?
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The growth of a privileged bureaucratic and technological elite
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Which of the following was a reason for Russia's successful 1917 revolution?
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Blaming the government for Russia's very poor performance in World War I
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Which of the following statements best reflects the development of communist feminism?
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It was a largely state-directed initiative.
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Which of the following was part of communist feminist legislation?
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A policy that fully incorporated women into the workforce
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Which of the following was a critical part of China's economic reform after 1976?
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China sought to attract foreign capitalists with tax breaks.
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What changed in China after Deng Xiaoping took control in 1976?
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Deng oversaw the rapid dismantling of the country's collectivized farming system.
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Which of the following remains the most unreformed and repressive of the communist countries today?
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North Korea
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Which of the following best describes the political situation in the decade that followed the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917?
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The Soviet Union was the only communist regime in the world.
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Which of the following best statements describes the experience of third-world countries during the cold war?
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Third-world countries had no single shared experience, with their individual circumstances running the spectrum from being the pawn of a superpower to actually benefiting from the rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.
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How did the Chinese communist revolution differ from its Russian counterpart?
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The Chinese Revolution was a much longer and more drawn-out struggle.
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What changed in China after Deng Xiaoping took control in 1976?
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Mao was severely criticized for some of his policies.
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How did the Chinese communist revolution differ from its Russian counterpart?
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The ideas of Karl Marx were less well established in China than Russia at the opening of the twentieth century.
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What distinguished the extension of communism into Asia as compared to Europe following World War II?
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Asia was the scene of the most destructive and prolonged hot wars during the cold war.
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From a communist perspective, which of the following is the best definition of socialism?
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An intermediate stage on the way to a final goal of social equality and collective living
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What was the Iron Curtain?
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It was the term for the heavily fortified border between Eastern and Western Europe.
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Which of the following was a distinct difference between communist feminism in China and Russia?
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Only in Russia was there talk of free love and the withering away of the family.
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Which of the following countries experienced a successful communist revolution before the 1970s?
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Mongolia
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Which state was under communist rule at some point in the twentieth century?
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Afghanistan
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Which earlier revolution was a model for the revolutions in both Russia and China?
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French Revolution
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Which of the following statements accurately reflects the relationship between communist states during the cold war?
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The Soviet Union invaded both Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
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What problems did rapid economic development after 1976 in China produce?
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The reemergence of a criminal underworld largely eliminated after 1949
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In what kind of societies did a majority of successful communist revolutions in the twentieth century take place?
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Largely agrarian societies
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