Matching
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Match
each term with the correct statement below. a. | Zhenotdel | d. | Bosheviks | b. | Great Leap Forward | e. | Domino theory | c. | Cold
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Attempt by
China to fight urban bias and indiviualistic tendencies.
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2.
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The leaders
of communism in Russia
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Russian feminist movement
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Limiting
communism to areas already under Soviet control-bit allowing it to spread anywhere
else.
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5.
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State of
tension and hostility-without actual war- between Soviet East and US-led West
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Match
each person with the correct statement below. a. | Mao Zedong | e. | The Gulag | b. | Stalin | f. | Nazi Youth | c. | NATO | g. | Red
Guard | d. | Warsaw Pact | | | | |
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6.
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Soviet
leader in 1930s
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7.
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Chinese
leader in 1960s
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Military
alliance for the West
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Chinese young people fighting their fellow countrymen who were becoming too
capitalistic.
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Military alliance for the communist East
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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11.
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Into which
of these countries did the US intervene during the Cold War? a. | Chile | d. | The
Congo | b. | the Philippines | e. | All of them | c. | Iran | | | | |
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12.
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What was the
result of the Soviet and Chinese efforts to fight their internal enemies, the ones who were not
working fervently enough for the communist cause? a. | the whole idea of socialism was
discredited | c. | It worked in the Soviet
Union but not China | b. | the success achieved by these efforts strengthened the communist
movement worldwide | d. | It worked in China but
not the Soviet Union | | | | |
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13.
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What was the
Chinese Cultural Revolution? a. | An attempt by Mao to find a blend between communism and the
arts. | c. | Britain. | b. | The rebellion of young people against the traditional Chinese
outfits. | d. | China’s attempt to
stop the growth of materialism and self-seeking. | | | | |
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14.
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Which item
does not fit the others? a. | Soviet Terror | b. | The Muslim resistance
to Soviet advances in Afghanistan | c. | The Great Purges | d. | The Chinese Cultural
Revolution | | |
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15.
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Which of
these is the best comparison between how socialist principles advanced in the countryside of the
Soviet Union and how they advanced in the countryside of China? a. | The countrysides of
both nations were easily controlled by the advancing socialism makeover. | b. | In Russia taking of
the country by communists was very hard because of the resistance of the Russian peasants, whereas in
China the communists had started with peasants and so organizing the country for collectivism was
easier. | c. | The countryside was more easily won in Russia because the peasants
there had been working with socialist principles for centuries, unlike those in
China. | d. | The takeover of the country was very hard, both in the Soviet Union
and in China | | |
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Figure 31-1
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According to
Figure 31-1, which country was divided after World War II? a. | Austria | c. | Yugoslavia | b. | Poland | d. | Germany | | | | |
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According to
Figure 31-1, which free country shared a border with the Soviet Union? a. | Turkey | c. | Austria | b. | Greece | d. | Italy | | | | |
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According to
Figure 31-1, which of the following areas was added to the Soviet Union after World War
II? a. | Turkey | c. | Switzerland | b. | Latvia | d. | Austria | | | | |
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According to
Figure 31-1, which of the following Eastern European countries remained free of Soviet
control? a. | Poland | c. | Greece | b. | Albania | d. | Hungary | | | | |
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The term
Holocaust refers to the a. | bombing of Britain. | b. | mobilization for total
war. | c. | massacre of more than
six million Jews. | d. | turning point of the war in North Africa. | | |
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Which
statement is most accurage about modernizing in China and the Soviet Union? a. | Both nations were too
poor to consider modernization, so they put it off until they could grow an industrial
base. | b. | Both China and the Soviet Union wanted modernize and industrialize,
but they did not want to do it by capitalism and the principles of the West. They wanted it to be
done more justly with more equality. | c. | Both China and the Soviet Union thought modernization was a way of the
West and they avoided it. | d. | Russia was all for modernization, and they were willing to leave their
socialist principles to an extent for it, but the Chinese were against the idea of modernization as
an evil from the West. | | |
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Where among
these was the “Cold War” truly cold? (That is, where was there no fighting and
bloodshed between East and West?) a. | Vietnam. | b. | Korea. | c. | Cuba | d. | Afghanistan. | | |
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Short Answer
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23.
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Though both
China and the Soviet Union were totalitarian, they had enemies. Stalin initiated the Terror, or the
Great Purges against those he thought were enemies. Describe these enemies...
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24.
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Describe
what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis:
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25.
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Describe the
ways that Khrushev, when he took power in the Soviet Union, honored Stalin, his predecessor (the
leader who came before him):
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26.
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America
became the world’s superpower after WW II. Say something about its status as a superpower
in each of these areas:
The US Presidency
US economy and middle class society
US Popular Culture
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Essay
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27.
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Comparing
Paths to the End of Communism. The last section of our reading compared China and the
Soviet Union in their declines at the end of the Twentieth Century. Write an ORGANIZED essay in
which you compare and contrast the declines of these two Communist giants.
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