AP World Chapter 21: Global Communism

Creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants; part of Stalin's economic and political planning; often adopted in other Communist regimes.

• Collectivization
• Westernization
• Globalization
• Democratization

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communist Party after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928-1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush all opposition.

• Josef Stalin
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Vladamir Lenin
• Vladimir Putin

1945-1991 A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• Cold War
• Vietnam
• Gulf War
• Imperial War

(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Mao Zedong
• Chiang Kai Shek
• Xi
• Zeng He

Built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

• Berlin wall
• Brandenburg Gate
• Autobahn
• Auschwitz

Cuban revolutionary; overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1958; initiated series of reforms to establish Socialist reforms; came to depend almost exclusively on USSR

• Fidel Castro
• Raul Castro
• Che Guevara
• Lee Harvey Oswald

Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.

• Cultural Revolution
• Great Leap Forward
• Five Year Plans
• Collectivization

a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union

• Bolshevik Party
• Leninists
• Soviet Party
• Democrats

1958-1961 China's second five-year plan under the leadership of the impatient Mao, it aimed to speed up economic development while simultaneously developing a completely socialist society. This plan failed and more than 20 million people starved between 1958 and 1960

• Great Leap forward
• Balfour Decleration
• Collectivization
• Cultural Revolution

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Containment
• Imperialism
• Democratization
• Appeasement