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| 6416522358 | Nikita Khruschev | president 1953-64; exposed Stalin's tyranny; launched Sputnik | 0 | |
| 6416527105 | Bloody Sunday | 1905; troops fired on peaceful protesters, turning people against czar and forcing him to establish the duma | 1 | |
| 6416559688 | Russo-Japanese War | first defeat of a European power by an Asian one; helped lead to Russian Revolution | 2 | |
| 6416562348 | Mikhail Gorbachev | president 1985-91; dropped out of arms race; couldn't keep USSR from dissolving | 3 | |
| 6416566630 | Rape of Nanjing | Japanese brutally attacked the Chinese city at the beginning of the Pacific War; about 12,000 killed and 20,000 raped | 4 | |
| 6416572122 | glasnost | political and cultural openness; policy of Gorbachev | 5 | |
| 6416575071 | perestroika | economic restructuring; policy of Gorbachev | 6 | |
| 6416577019 | collectivization | Stalin transferred land to state ownership; forced peasants to join large farms | 7 | |
| 6416583501 | Leon Trotsky | organized the Red Army; competed with Stalin for power and lost; came up with programs that were implemented by Stalin | 8 | |
| 6416588161 | Peace, Land, Bread | Lenin promised to give these things to the Russian people; used this as his motto | 9 | |
| 6416591954 | zaibatsu | large Japanese holding company run by a single family | 10 | |
| 6416594618 | New Economic Policy | implemented by Lenin; let peasants trade more, but the economy was still mostly controlled by the government | 11 | |
| 6416599362 | Five-Year Plans | implemented by Stalin; government control of every aspect of the economy; wanted to achieve combined development | 12 | |
| 6416606708 | Douglas MacArthur | general in charge of the American occupation of Japan after WWII | 13 | |
| 6416610239 | kulaks | wealthier peasants who opposed collectivization; many were executed or sent to prison camps | 14 | |
| 6416614800 | oil shocks | one in 1973 and another in 1979; Arab countries dramatically raised oil prices | 15 | |
| 6416622377 | Ukrainian famine | 1932-33; killed 7-10 million people; recognized as genocide by the Soviet government, possibly to eliminate an independence movement | 16 | |
| 6416629429 | Comintern | established by Soviet leaders to spread the revolution | 17 | |
| 6416631034 | gulag | vast system of forced labor camps under Stalin; millions sent there because they were "traitors" | 18 | |
| 6416634428 | mir | self-governing community of peasants in pre-revolutionary Russia | 19 |
