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STALIN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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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