Ms. Coopers AP World History II class
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| 1964374773 | Berlin Wall | wall constructed by East German authorities in 1961 to seal E. Berlin from the West. Fell in 1989 | 0 | |
| 1964374774 | Bolsheviks | Russian revolutionary party led by Lenin and later renamed the communist party | 1 | |
| 1964374775 | Building Socialism | Euphemistic expression for the often forcible transformation of a society when a communist regime comes to power | 2 | |
| 1964374776 | Castro | revolutionary leader of Cuba who turned to Soviet communism and engendered some of the worst crisis of the Cold War | 3 | |
| 1964374777 | Chinese Revolution | Long revolutionary process (1912-1949) began with overthrow of the Chinese imperial system and ended with the triumph of the communist party | 4 | |
| 1964374778 | Cold War | Political and ideological state of near-war between the Western Capitalist and the Eastern communists | 5 | |
| 1964374779 | collectivization | process of rural reform by communist leadership in 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 | 6 | |
| 1964374780 | Cuban missile crisis | major standoff between the U.S. and USSR over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba; the confrontation ended in comprimise with USSR removing its missles in exchange for the US agreeing to not invade Cuba and to remove missles aimed at Moscow | 7 | |
| 1964374781 | Cultural Revolution | massive campaign launched by Zedong in 1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that he believed reached even into the highest ranks of the communist party; the campaign threw China into choas | 8 | |
| 1964374782 | Xiaoping | Leader of China after Zedong whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements in China's economy | 9 | |
| 1964374783 | Glasnost | Gorbachev's policy of "openness", which allowed greater cultural and intellectual freedom and ended most censorship of media; result was burst o f awareness of the problems and corruption of the Soviet system | 10 | |
| 1964374784 | Gorbachev | Leader of USSR whose reforms led to the collapse of the USSR | 11 | |
| 1964374785 | Great Leap Forward | Major Chinese initiative led by Zedong that intended to promote small-scale industrialization and increase of knowledge of tech; in reality it caused major crisis and made the famine worse | 12 | |
| 1964374786 | Great Purges | enormous movement to cleanse the USSR of supposed "enemies of the people"; nearly one million people were executed and 4 or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor | 13 | |
| 1964374787 | Gulag | Acronym for the USSR gov agency that administrated forced labor camps | 14 | |
| 1964374788 | Guomindang | Chinese Nationalist party led by Kai-Shek which would be overthrown by the CCP | 15 | |
| 1964374789 | Khrushchev | leader of Soviet union form 1953-1964 | 16 | |
| 1964374790 | Lenin | main leader of Russia's communist revolution and first head of state for USSR | 17 | |
| 1964374791 | Zedong | Chairman of CCP and leader of China from 1949 to his death | 18 | |
| 1964374792 | McCarthysim | wave of anti-communist fear and persecution that took place in US in the 50s | 19 | |
| 1964374793 | National Security State | form of gov. that arose in U.S. in response to the Cold War and in which defense and intelligence agencies gained great power and power shifts heavily to executive branch | 20 | |
| 1964374794 | Perestroika | Economic reform program in USSR, heavy resistance, Gorbachev makes Glasnost to appease people | 21 | |
| 1964374795 | Russian Revolution | massive revolutionary upheaval in 1917 that allowed the communist Bolsheviks to take power | 22 | |
| 1964374796 | Containment | idea of keeping communism in it's originating country; no spreading | 23 | |
| 1964374797 | NATO | Pact formed between US and Western Europe against USSR aggression | 24 | |
| 1964374798 | Korean War | war between N. and S. with US involvement, S. Korea freed from Communism | 25 | |
| 1964374799 | Vietnam War | war between N. and S. with US involvement (large amounts), US retreat because they were unprepared and not well trained, S. Vietnam falls to Communism | 26 | |
| 1964374800 | Stalin | Exceptionally cruel ruler of USSR (1924 to his death) | 27 | |
| 1964374801 | Warsaw Pact | Pact between USSR and E. Europe against NATO | 28 | |
| 1964374802 | Zhenotdel | women's department ca. 1919 in USSR, abolished by Stalin after major objection from population | 29 | |
| 1964374803 | Five-Year Plans | brought all USSR industry under state control, didn't really work, but helped some | 30 | |
| 1964374804 | Gestapo | German secret police | 31 | |
| 1964374805 | Yalta Conference | meeting between US Britain and USSR at the end of WWII | 32 | |
| 1964374806 | Kai-shek | leader of the Guomindang party in China, not a good leader | 33 | |
| 1964374807 | Ho Chi Minh | leader of Viet Cong (N. Vietnam) very communist | 34 | |
| 1964374808 | New Economic policy | policy created to prevent the collapse of economy, some capitalism allowed to help enconomy | 35 | |
| 1964374809 | Truman Doctrine | US principle to protect others from Soviet rule, seen as declaration of the Cold War | 36 | |
| 1964374810 | Iron Curtain | metaphoric divide between E. communism and W. capitalism | 37 | |
| 1964374811 | Chinese Communist Party | communist party that took control in 1949, led by Zedong, still in existence today | 38 | |
| 1964374812 | Atlantic Charter | a draft of the Allie's goals for after WWII | 39 | |
| 1964374813 | Soviet Satellites | E. European nations controlled (basically) by the Soviet Union | 40 |
