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| 13940034456 | Russian Revolution (1917) | a revolution in Russia in 1917-1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks to power. | 0 | |
| 13940034457 | Bolsheviks | the Russian Social Democratic Party, renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. |  | 1 |
| 13940034458 | Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik party |  | 2 |
| 13940034459 | Guomindang | a nationalist party founded in China under Sun Yat-sen in 1912, and led by Chiang Kai-shek from 1925. |  | 3 |
| 13940034460 | Mao Zedong | cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and its effective leader from the time of the Long March (1934-35), he eventually defeated both the occupying Japanese and rival Kuomintang nationalist forces to create the People's Republic of China in 1949. |  | 4 |
| 13940034461 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 13940034462 | Stalin | name assumed by Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili (1878-1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death; "Stalin" means "made of steel." |  | 6 |
| 13940034463 | building socialism | euphemistic expression for the often-forcible transformation of society when a communist regime came to power in a state. | 7 | |
| 13940034464 | Zhenotdel | women's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1930; worked strongly to promote equality for women. | 8 | |
| 13940034465 | 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. | 9 | |
| 13940034466 | Cultural Revolution | 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. | 10 | |
| 13940034467 | Great Purges/Terror | 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 or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag. | 11 | |
| 13940034468 | Anna Dubova | a Russian Peasent Girl and urban woman |  | 12 |
| 13940034469 | Cuban Revolution / 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 |
| 13940034470 | Nikita Khrushchev | leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. |  | 14 |
| 13940034471 | Deng Xiaoping | leader of China from 1976 to 1997 whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy. |  | 15 |
| 13940034472 | perestroika | bold economic program launched in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev with the intention of freeing up Soviet industry and businesses. | 16 | |
| 13940034473 | glasnost | 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. | 17 | |
| 13940034474 | Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 whose efforts to reform the USSR led to its collapse. |  | 18 |
| 13940034475 | USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | 19 | |
| 13940034476 | Cold War | Political and ideological state of near-war between the Western world and the communist world that lasted from 1946 to 1991. | 20 | |
| 13940034477 | Berlin Wall | A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | 21 | |
| 13940034478 | Fidel Castro | revolutionary leader who replaced Batista in 1958; reformed Cuban society with socialist measures; supported economically and politically by the Soviet Union until its collapse. | 22 | |
| 13940034479 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 23 | |
| 13940034480 | 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 a major crisis and exacerbated the impact of a devastating famine. | 24 | |
| 13940034481 | Bay of Pigs | Attempted invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained Cuban refugees Goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro, Cuba's Communist-friendly leader The invasion failed after Kennedy refused air support JFK assumed responsibility for the invasion | 25 | |
| 13940034482 | Gulag | Russian prison camp for political prisoners | 26 | |
| 13940034483 | Tiananmen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life. | 27 |
