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2263833105Berlin WallWall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany to keep citizens from escaping to the West0
2263833106BolsheviksRussian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party1
2263833107Fidel CastroCuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba2
2263833108Chinese RevolutionPolitical revolution in China led by Mao Zedong, after several years of fighting the Kuomintang, the communist won control of the country3
2263833109Cold WarConflict between U.S. and Soviet Union, Nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years4
2263833110CollectivizationSystem in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants workers on it5
2263833111CominternInternational office of communism under Sovet Union dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere6
2263833112Cuban Missile CrisisSoviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in China, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S., the U.S. blockaded Cuba until the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle the missile silos7
2263833113Deng XiaopingCommunist party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after death of Mao Zedong8
2263833114GlasnostPolicy of openness initiated by Gorbachev that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union9
2263833115Mikhail GorbachevHead of Soviet Union, his liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but lost power after reforms led to the collapse of Communist Government in Eastern Europe10
2263833116Great Leap ForwardEconomic and Social plan used in China which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an Agrarian Economy into a modern industrial society11
2263833117Great Proletarian Cultural RevolutionPolitical campaign launched to stop China's drift away from Socialism and toward Capitalism, Campaign led to massive purges in the Chinese Communist Party, widespread persecution of China's intellectuals, and destruction of invaluable cultural artifacts, ended after Mao's death and arrest of his most radical followers12
2263833118GulagSystem of Siberian prison camps and penal colonies set up during Stalin's dictatorship13
2263833119GuomindangNationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-Sen, after party was headed by Chiang Kai-Shek, who turned it into an increasingly Authoritarian movement14
2263833120Nikita KhrushchevLeader of Soviet Union, seeked peaceful co-existence with West the but Cuban Missile Crisis and lessened government control of Soviet citizens15
2263833121LeninRussian founder of Bolsheviks and leader of Russian Revolution and first head of Soviet Union16
2263833122Mao ZedongLeader of the Chinese Communist party, led the Communist on the Long March and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China17
2263833123McCarthyismTerm associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communist in America through his leadership in the House Un-American Committee18
2263833124PerestroikaPolicy intimated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic states quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society19
2263833125Russian RevolutionRevolution against Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and creation of a provisional government in March20
2263833126StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of Communist Party and created a Totalitarian state by purging all opposition21
2263833127Warsaw Pact1955 Treaty binding Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Europe in an alliance against North Atlantic Treaty Organization22
2263833128ZhenotdelWomen's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and worked to promote equality for omen23

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