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| 11854506345 | Arms Race | A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and conventional weapons. |  | 0 |
| 11854506346 | Berlin Airlift | The massive relief effort of food and fuel to democratic West Berlin following the cut off by the Soviets. |  | 1 |
| 11854506347 | Berlin Wall | Wall constructed by East German authorities in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from the West; it was breached on November 9, 1989. |  | 2 |
| 11854506348 | Blockade | Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out. |  | 3 |
| 11854506349 | Bolsheviks | Russian revolutionary party led by Vladimir Lenin and later renamed the Communist party; the name "Bolshevik" means "the Majority." |  | 4 |
| 11854506350 | Brezhnev, Leonid | The Soviet leader who arrested and imprisoned dissidents and claimed the rights to interfere with the Warsaw Pact. |  | 5 |
| 11854506351 | Building Socialism | Euphemistic expression of the often-forcible transformation of society when a communist regime came to power in a state. |  | 6 |
| 11854506352 | Castro, Fidel | Revolutionary Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008 who gradually turned to Soviet communism and engendered some of the worst crises of the cold war. |  | 7 |
| 11854506353 | Chinese Revolution | Long revolutionary process in the period 1912-1949 that began with the overthrow of the Chinese imperial system and ended with the triumph of the Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong. |  | 8 |
| 11854506354 | Cold War | The state of tension and hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after 1945 without large scale armed conflict between the major powers. |  | 9 |
| 11854506355 | Collectivization | Process of rural reform undertaken by the communist leadership of both the USSR and China in which private property rights were abolished and peasants were forced onto larger and more industrialized farms to work and share the proceeds as a community rather than as individuals. |  | 10 |
| 11854506356 | Comintern | In full, "Communist International"; Soviet organization intended to control the policies and actions of other communist states. |  | 11 |
| 11854506357 | Containment | The Cold War policy that limited the spread of Communism. |  | 12 |
| 11854506358 | Cuban missile crisis | Major standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba' the confrontation ended in compromise, with the USSR removing its missiles in exchange for the United States agreeing not to invade Cuba. |  | 13 |
| 11854506359 | Cultural Revolution | China's great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a massive campaign launched by Mao Zedong in the mid 1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that he believed reached into even the highest ranks of the Communist Party; the campaign threw China into chaos. |  | 14 |
| 11854506360 | Deng Xiaoping | Leader of China from 1976 to 1997 whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy. |  | 15 |
| 11854506361 | Detente | Easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s. |  | 16 |
| 11854506362 | Domino Theory | Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall. |  | 17 |
| 11854506363 | Dubova, Anna | Born to a Russian peasant family in 1916 she lived though the communist experience of her country. Her life illustrates the complexities that ordinary citizens faced as they sought to navigate the communist system. |  | 18 |
| 11854506364 | Four Mondernizations | The Chinese economic reform program under Deng Xiaoping that emphasized agriculture, industry, science and defense. |  | 19 |
| 11854506365 | glasnost | Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of "openness," which allowed greater cultural and intellectual freedom and ended most censorship of the media; the result was a burst of awareness of the problems and corruption of the Soviet system. |  | 20 |
| 11854506366 | Gorbachev, Mikhail | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 whose efforts to reform the USSR led to its collapse. |  | 21 |
| 11854506367 | Great Leap Forward | Major Chinese initiative (1958-1960) led by Mao Zedong that was intended to promote small-scale industrialization and increase knowledge of technology; in reality, it caused major crisis and exacerbated the impact of a devastating famine. |  | 22 |
| 11854506368 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | Mao Zedong's great effort in the mid 1960s to weed out capitalist tendencies that he believed had developed in China. |  | 23 |
| 11854506369 | Great Purges/Terror | Also called the Terror, the Great Purges of the late 1930s were a massive attempt to cleanse the Soviet Union of supposed "enemies of the people"; nearly a million people were executed between 1936 and 1941, and 4 million of 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag. |  | 24 |
| 11854506370 | Gulag | Acronym for the Soviet government agency that administered forced labor camps. |  | 25 |
| 11854506371 | Guomindang | The Chinese Nationalist Party led by Jiang Jieshi (formally Chiang Kai-shek) from 1928 until its overthrow by the communists in 1949. |  | 26 |
| 11854506372 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist who brought communism to North Vietnam during the latter part of the 20th century. |  | 27 |
| 11854506373 | Iron Curtain | The imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from the communist countries of the East. |  | 28 |
| 11854506374 | Khrushchev, Nikita | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. |  | 29 |
| 11854506375 | Lenin | Adopted name of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), the main leader of Russia's communist revolution and head of the Soviet state from 1917 until his death. |  | 30 |
| 11854506376 | Mao Zedong | Chairman of China's Communist Party and de facto ruler of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. |  | 31 |
| 11854506377 | McCarthyism | Wave of anti communist fear and persecution that took place in the United States in the 1950s national security state: Form of government that arose in the United States in response to the cold war and in which defense and intelligence agencies gained great power and power in general came to be focused in the executive branch. |  | 32 |
| 11854506378 | perestroika | Bold economic program launched in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev with the intention of freeing up Soviet industry and businesses. |  | 33 |
| 11854506379 | Red Guard | Group of radical students formed in China during the Cultural Revolution. |  | 34 |
| 11854506380 | Russian Revolution | Massive revolutionary upheaval in 1917 that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by communists under the leadership of Lenin. |  | 35 |
| 11854506381 | Satellites | A dependent state. |  | 36 |
| 11854506382 | Solidarity | An independent trade union that worked for political change in Poland. |  | 37 |
| 11854506383 | Stalin | Name assumed by Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili (1878-1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death; "Stalin" means "made of steel." |  | 38 |
| 11854506384 | Superpower | a nation strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations. |  | 39 |
| 11854506385 | Tiananmen Square Massacre | In 1989, demonstrators peacefully assembly to push for greater democracy in China and were attacked by government troops and tanks. |  | 40 |
| 11854506386 | Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the USSR and the communist states of Eastern Europe during the cold war. |  | 41 |
| 11854506387 | Walesa, Lech | Leader of Solidarity that helped Poland gain independence from the Soviet Union, later became president of Poland in 1990. |  | 42 |
| 11854506388 | Zhenotdel | Women's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1930; Zhenotdel worked strongly to promote equality for women. |  | 43 |
