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5976342741The great depressionDuring the 1930s industrial production shrank, world trade dropped dramatically and unemployment role to unprecedented levels. (Stock market crash)0
5976342742Revolution or 1911A spread of a rebellion that deposed the last Emperor China (Qing)1
5976464139CommunismKarl Marx beloved that private ownership of property is the root of all inequality so it should be eliminated. Believed that this was the only solution to the misery and unfairness that resulted from the industrialization. Capitalism exploited workers and increased the gab between the rich and poor. That proletarian would overcome the bourgeoisie. Encouraged equality and cooperation plus how the gov would wither away since social class would disappear2
5976464140The Great Leap Forward (1958-1966)use of china's supply of cheap labor to rapidly industrialize; Agriculture and industry failed to produce results (China)3
5976464141Cultural revolutionRefocus on Government; People who opposed was arrested; reorganized communist studies (China)4
5976464142Mao diedRadicals, military and moderates.5
5976464143Deng Xiaoping1978 became leader and altered to industry, agricultural, science, and military. Leader of Reformers; seized power and ended the Cultural Revolution; Government followed the Four Modernizations (China)6
5976464144The Four modernization.Open door (free to trade), reforms in education (higher education) and institutionalization of the revolution (old Chinas legal system and bureaucracy [gov decentralized, election modified, and capitalism infused]).7
5976464145Jospeh Stalin (1927-1953)The Russian leader emphasized the development of "socialism in one country" in the U.S.S.R., so no serous unemployment occurred there and industrial production increased steadily. Turned back on communism. Isolated Russia.8
5976544909The Five Year PlanBetween 1953 in 1957, the CCP launch the first of its Soviet style five-year plans to nationalize industry collective agriculture, implementing steps toward socialism. Plans To modernize and Industrialize (like Stalin's)9
5976464146Five Year Plan (1928 + 1933)Instituted economic policies that emphasized internal development and self-sufficiency. Meet at end of five year. Socialist industry has now become the sole form of industry in the U.S.S.R. Stalin's plans to industrialize and strengthen Russia agriculture10
5976485951KulaksProsperous peasants who stood to lose their farms to the government. Slaughtered own animals instead for gov. Millions were arrested and sent to labor camps (many executed)11
5976485952GulagsGovernment agency controlled soviets forced labor camps.12
5976500630Holomodor (1932-1933)Man-made widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors like crop failure, population imbalanced, or government polices in Societ Ukraine13
5976505478The Great Purge (1934-1939)Campaign of political repression in the Societ Union.14
5976506924Cult of PersonalityIndividual uses of propaganda; methods to create an idealized, heroic and at time worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.15
5976514064Benito MussoliniGained control of Italy in 1922 and established a one-party dictatorship16
5976515538FascismExtreme force of nationalism and encourage individual to give their will to the state (Italy)17
5976516971BlackshirtsA paramilitary group formed to help promote Fascist influence and terrorize economic and political opponents.18
5976521006The Weimar RepublicNew government that was too weak to help Germany in its economic issues.19
5976522445Beer Hall PunchFailed illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus by the Nazi Party Hitler.20
5976526223Mein KampfHitler's book "My Struggle" explained his racists doctrines that guided his polices and action as a German Dictator.21
5976529342The Enabling ActA 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the Sherman Cabient (Approval of Adolf Hilter) the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.22
5976534783Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of Jews; Included the Paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and German Citizens23
5976538173Nuremberg Lawsantisemitic laws prejudice and discriminating laws against Jews) in Nazi Germany24
5976539440HolocaustMass extermination of specific groups by Nazi Germany; Genocide of Jew and etc. (Germany)25
5976547388Sun Yat-senVictorious leader of the revolution/attempted to establish a republican form of government in China26
5976548586Chang Kai-shekSons died and his party leadership filled him he sought to crush the regional warlords with his armies and once he did he turned on the communis who he considered a threat. By 1930 establish a dictatorship27
5976551144GuomindangNational People's party. Found much to admire in Lenin's revolutionary tactics, and a Soviet advisor was invited to help the party organize the country.28
5976553512Mao ZedongWhere are the Chinese communist party, continued to attract followers, causing Chiang to get rid of him. Wanted to drive under China out of mainland China and declare the founding of peoples Republic of China.29
5976555988The Long March (1934-1936)Pursuit of Mao's army across China by Chiang and his supporters - only serve to strengthen communitist cause30

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