Paper 2


STALIN
Question | Answer |
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Rise to Power | Picked over Trotsky, despite Lenin's testament. |
Politburo | Split after Stalin chosen. Opposition removed. Stalin puts his men in Politburo to control everyone else. |
Collectivization reasons | Modernize, industrialize USSR. |
Collectivization success | Give government grain control, kulaks eliminated. |
Collectivization failures | Production decreased, government took too much grain, famine. |
Five Year Plans | Used to catch up to Western powers (successful); workers worked hard. |
Workers who did not reach quota | Accused of sabotage, sent to gulags and expelled to labor camps. |
Propaganda | Stakhanovites. |
Great Purge | Started after Kirov got more applause than Stalin. |
Cult of personality | Stalin erased names of enemies. |
MAO
Question | Answer |
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China’s Main Failures | Failed to modernize, due to isolation and imperialism. |
GMD (Nationalists) | Chiang Kai-shek; had support of United States. |
CCP (Communist Chinese Party) | Mao Zedong eventually leader; smaller group of two. |
Long March | GMD attacks CCP, but CCP is not destroyed and CCP message spreads. |
Japan | Took over China. |
People who saved China | CCP |
Corrupt party of China | GMD |
Chinese Civil War | 1946-1949; CCP wins over GMD. |
CCP wins because | Popular support, motivation, guerilla warfare. |
GMD loses because | Corruption, lost popular support, overextended army by trying to control too much territory. |
Agrarian Reform Law (1950) | Addressed peasant problems. |
Marriage Reform Law (1950) | Men and women equal. |
First Five Year Plan (1952-1956) | Increasing production of coal, oil, steel, etc. until Soviet backs out of aid. |
Antis-Movement | Targeted corrupt government. |
Hundred Flowers Campaign | Encouraged intellectuals to critique the government, but killed those who did so. |
Great Leap Forward | Post-Five-Year Plan; led to famine; government took too much grain. |
Great Leap Forward propaganda | Weather. |
Cultural Revolution | 1966-1976 Purge of CPC |
Red Guard | Schools closed, so Red Guard can attack rightists and 4 Olds (ideas, culture, customs, habits). |
Lost Generation | 16 million red guard work countryside, feeling betrayed by Mao and CCP. Increase of illiteracy. |
CUBA
Question | Answer |
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Platt Amendment | Allowed United States to intervene in Cuba. |
Economy | Monoculture (relied on sugar). |
United States | Controlled most of Cuba, including imports and exports. |
Cuban Presidents | Corrupt and puppets of the United States. |
Lifestyle Before Castro | Illiteracy, crime, prostitution, unemployment and drug use increased. |
Batista Takes Over | 1952; corrupt and rigged elections. |
Fidel Castro | Lawyer that wanted to take down Batista. |
Moncada Assault | Unsuccessful coup attack by Castro (1953). |
26th of July Movement | Gave Castro a platform and group. |
Granma Expedition | Nearly killed Castro after he was released from jail (12 of 82 survive). |
Batista Fled | January 1, 1959 |
Castro and Soviet Union | Signs trade agreement with them. United States stops importing Cuban goods. |
Bay of Pigs (April 1961) | John F. Kennedy invaded Cuba, badly planned and executed; easily destroyed by Castro. |
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) | Soviet Union supplied missiles to Cuba, who directed them at the United States. United States to leave Cuba alone. |
Reform | Agrarian Land Reform, education(!), housing, health, medical facilities, women's rights. |
Economic Crisis | After country was unable to diversify industries and unemployment rose. |
Revolution Offensive (1968) | Took businesses away from the people. |
Year of the Ten Million (1970) | Goal to break the sugar output, but failed miserably to the point Castro volunteered resignation. |
COLD WAR
Question | Answer |
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TYP | Tehran Yalta Potsdam |
Tehran Conference (1943) | Planned the 1944 assault on France. United Nations. |
Yalta Conference (1945) | Discussion about reparations to Stalin were postponed. |
Potsdam Conference (1945) | Germany split into four occupation zones. Tension between United States and Soviet Union. |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949). |
Vietnam Leader | Diem, until he dies. This is when United States takes South Vietnam. |
Vietcong | North Vietnam attacking South Vietnam. |
Guerilla warfare | Responsible for South Vietnam winning. |
Tet Offensive | North Vietnam takes back South Vietnam land. |
Détente Ends | Afghanistan (1979). |
CIVIL RIGHTS
Question | Answer |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson | Separate but equal (1896). |
Brown vs. Board of Ed | Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson; no more segregation in schools (1954). |
Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks refused to get up from her seat (1955); no African Americans boarded buses. |
Little Rock, Arkansas | Delayed integration. The Lost Year (1958-1959). |
Freedom Rides | Put government pressure to allow African Americans to use transportation (1961). |
Freedom Summer | Voting registration; white people joined African Americans (1964). |
Killed During Freedom Summer | Goodman, Cheney, Schwerner murdered. |
Voting Rights Act | 1965 |
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