Unit Review: Comparative Governments: Communism

20 August 2022
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What goal characterized the Chinese revolutionaries in 1911?
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Fighting for economic freedom.
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What is the explanation for why a picture of Red Guards displays them holding red books?
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The "Little Red Book" explained Mao's Communist idealogy, which all people in China were required to read.
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Why was Joseph Stalin's first Five Year Plan considered a success, even though it did not meet the quotas he set?
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The economy still made sizable gains.
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What is the definition of a command economy?
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an economy managed by the government
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The Cultural Revolution set back China's modernization because Mao believed that WHAT was more important?
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Communism
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During the early 1900's, the term "soviet" was initially the name for what?
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the local council in each Russian city.
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Chiang Kai-Shek became leader of China's (blank) party after the Warlord Period.
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Nationalist
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Why did the Great Leap Forward hurt China's economy?
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The changes meant farms could no longer produce enough food.
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what were men like in the USSR under Joseph Stalin's regime?
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They were in demand for industrial jobs.
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What did Deng Xiopang feel was the first step to modernizing China's economy involved?
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restoring the education system.
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Dictators of (blank) states use terror and violence to control their population.
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Totalitarian
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what is the philosopher Adam Smith known as?
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the father of capitalism.
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When did the Long March take place?
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1934
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Adam Smith is the author of what influential book?
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The Wealth of Nations.
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In addition to support from the people, what else did the Communists have in their favor during the war with the Nationalists?
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They had more effective military strategies.