AP World History: Chapter 21 Flashcards

13461735016	Russian Revolution	Russia needed a way out of WWI and out of the provisional government and dynasty, so they were motivated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks	0
13461735017	Bolsheviks/Lenin	socialist party that took control of Russia after the revolution, made use of promises and a charismatic leader to gain support	1
13461735018	Guomindang	Chinese nationalist party that made reforms within the city but was not able to gain wide spread support, traded out for communism in 1949	2
13461735019	Mao Zedong	leader of the CCP that gained the support of many peasants and workers through integrity and persistance	3
13461735020	Chinese Revolution	marked the end of Imperialism in China in 1911	4
13461735021	Stalin	followed Lenin as the leader of the communist party in Russia, killed off millions of his own people though he was regarded as a deity in his life time	5
13461735022	"building socialism"	achievements of the centralized state and collectivization helped communism gain more support, while economic growth kept the system on its feet	6
13461735023	Zhenotdel	Bolshevik leaders set this up in 1919 to try to further women's rights, and enabled women to be the sole leaders of this feminist agenda	7
13461735024	collectivization	the process of taking land away from individuals and dividing it equally among everyone, an attempt to make farming more efficient	8
13461735025	cultural revolution	launched by Mao in an attempt to eliminate any capitalist tendencies that had been picked up, also rejected feminism	9
13461735026	Great Terror/purges	efforts by the Chinese and Russian communist parties to chase down suspicions and get rid of revolutionaries	10
13461735027	Cuban missile crisis	Soviets and Americans wanted to make use of their shiny new nuclear toys and Russia used the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro to expand communism	11
13461735028	Nikita Khrushchev	Soviet leader at the time of the Cuban crisis, came into power after stalin, made use of alliance with Cuba to get back at the Americans	12
13461735029	Deng Xiaoping	Attempted to make up for the wrong doings of Mao by exposing the truths of the Cultural Revolution; used economic reformation to piece China back together	13
13461735030	Perestroika/Glasnost	Gorbachev's policies of economic and social freedoms that were aimed at regaining support through the introduction of some aspects of democracy	14
13461735031	Mikhail Gorbachev	came to power in 1985 in a final attempt to revive Soviet socialism, resulted in the end of the communist era and cold war in 1991	15