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| 375012617 | Zhenotdel | Women's Department of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1930; Zhenotdel worked strongly to promote equality for women | 0 | |
| 375012618 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 1 | |
| 375012619 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |  | 2 |
| 375012620 | Russian Revolution | The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917 | 3 | |
| 375012621 | Perestroika | A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 4 | |
| 375012622 | National Security State | A complex executive military and secret powers that shaped american international relations in the cold war and largely excluded congress and the public from decisions about the country's security | 5 | |
| 375012623 | McCarthyism | The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee. | 6 | |
| 375012624 | Mao Zedong | This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life. |  | 7 |
| 375012625 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) |  | 8 |
| 375012626 | Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions. |  | 9 |
| 375012627 | Guomindang | Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement. | 10 | |
| 375012628 | Gulag | A Russian prison camp for political prisoners | 11 | |
| 375012629 | Great Purges | Great offensive to build socialism and a new socialist personality. Ruthless police terror and massive purging of the communist party, were usually the order of the day | 12 | |
| 375012630 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | The political campaign launched in 1966 to stop China's drift away form socialism and toward capitalism. The campaign led to massive purges in the Chinese Communist Party, widespread persecution of China's intellectuals, and the destruction of invaluable cultural artifacts. It ended in 1976 after Mao's death and the arrest of some of his most radical followers. | 13 | |
| 375012631 | Great Leap Foward | A program Mao Zedong began in 1958 to speed up economic develpoment. | 14 | |
| 375012632 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) |  | 15 |
| 375012633 | Glasnost | Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union. | 16 | |
| 375012634 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. | 17 | |
| 375012635 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. | 18 | |
| 375012636 | Cuban Missle Crisis | (1961) Crises that developed as a result of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to allow the Soviet Union to base nuclear missiles in Cuba. Upon discovery, the United States confronted the Soviet Union and demanded the missiles be removed. For nearly two weeks, nuclear war was imminent. | 19 | |
| 375012637 | Comintern | was an international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State." | 20 | |
| 375012638 | Collectivization | The organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | 21 | |
| 375012639 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for decades. | 22 | |
| 375012640 | Chinese Revolution | A political revolution in China led by Mao Zedong. After several years of fighting the Kuomintang, the communists won control of the country in 1949. | 23 | |
| 375012641 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba. |  | 24 |
| 375012642 | Building Socialism | Euphemistic expression for the often-forcible transformation of society when a communist regime came to power in a state. | 25 | |
| 375012643 | Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI | 26 | |
| 375012644 | Berlin Wall | In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989. |  | 27 |
