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20 Cards in this Set
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Who was Lenin"s successor, who worked to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union?
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Joseph Stalin.
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What is a government that takes total, centralized control over all aspects of public and private life?
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Totalitarianism.
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Who was China's first Communist leader?
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Mao Zedong.
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What was Russia's first parliament called?
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The Duma.
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What were Stalin's methods f control in the Soviet Union?
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Police terror, indoctrination, propaganda, censorship, and religious and ethnic persecution.
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Who invaded Manchuria?
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Japan.
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Who was the leader of the independence movement to free India of British rule?
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Mohandas K. Ghandi.
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What is deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust?
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civil disobedience.
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What was the 6,000 mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces?
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The Long March.
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What is a system in which the government makes all the economic decisions called?
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Command economy.
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What was Stalin's campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power?
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The Great Purge.
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Who is the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia?
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The proletariat.
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Who was Russia's first leader?
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Lenin.
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What did the Bolsheviks rename their party to?
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The Communist Party.
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What were large government-controlled farms in Russia called?
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Collective farms.
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What has 2/3 of the world's oil supply?
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The Persian Gulf.
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What acts did the British pass that allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years?
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The Rowlatt Acts.
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What group was pushing for modernization and nationalism?
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The Kuomintang or the Nationalist Party.
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What country got land in the Treaty Of Versailles that China was thought to be given?
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Japan.
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What was the temporary government that was established by the Duma?
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Provisional government.
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