MWH Module 8 Section #3 Bellwork

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who won the Chinese Civil War in 1949?

• Deng Xiaoping

• Chiang kai Shek

• Mao Zedong

• Sun Yat-sen

Match each figure or event with their description.

• Ronald Reagan

• Communist revolutionary active in Latin America

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leader of the Chinese Communist Party

• Mao Zedong

• U.S. President who pressured the USSR and proposed SDI

• Che Guevara

• Leader of the USSR who introduced Glasnost and Perestroika

The ​ (a)   was Mao Zedong’s plan to rapidly industrialize China, while the ​ (b)   was a 1989 protest in China calling for democratic reform.

• Great Leap Forward
• Tiananmen Square
• INF Treaty
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Cultural Revolution
• Strategic Defense Initiative

What does this image symbolize?

• Support for military government

• U.S. invasion of Communist China

• Celebration of Chinese unity

• Civilian resistance to authoritarianism

Place the following events in chronological order.

• Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Tiananmen Square Protests

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• INF Treaty Signed

• Chinese Communist Revolution

What was the Great Leap Forward?

• A peace treaty between the U.S. and China limiting nuclear weapons

• Mao’s plan to rapidly industrialize China and improve agriculture

• A student protest movement in China where 200 civilians died

• China’s entry into the United Nations as a veto power

Match each program or treaty to its purpose.

• Perestroika

• Gorbachev’s policy of openness and transparency

• Glasnost

• Gorbachev’s policy to restructure the Soviet economy

• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

• Treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

• INF Treaty

• U.S. plan for space-based missile defense (nicknamed “Star Wars”)

What did the fall of the Berlin Wall represent?

• Reunification of Japan and China at their World War II borders

• The beginning of World War III in the Southern Pacific Ocean

• The start of the Cuban Missile Crisis and official perestroika

• The end of the Cold War and Soviet control of Eastern Europe

Match each movement or group with its focus.

• Madres de Plaza de Mayo

• Period of government-led human rights violations in Argentina

• Che Guevara

• Chinese citizens demanding democratic reforms

• Argentinian Dirty War

• Mothers demanding justice for disappeared children in Argentina

• Tiananmen Square Protesters

• Promoted armed revolution in Latin America

What was the INF Treaty designed to do?

• Expand communism in Latin America

• Promote space exploration

• Eliminate certain types of nuclear missiles

• Force Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan