Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev is a significant histo

Question 2

How have six decades of Communist rule affected the concept of the family in China? How does the current state of the family in China compare with the family in other parts of the world?

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Six decades of Communist rule in China h

Question 3

Mao argued for "uninterrupted revolution" because he and the Communist Party believed​

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A) that revolution tapped into a vital source of patriotic energy for the Chinese peasantry. 
B) the remnants of feudal and Confucianist ideas would undermine the progress he had made. 
C) the indoctrination of people was going to take a long time and needed to be perpetuated. ​ 
D) the United States would launch an attack on The People's Republic of China to support the pro-Western forces in Taiwan. 
E) that Khrushchev had lost momentum when he allowed for a tenuous thaw in hardline policies. 
A) that revolution tapped into a vital source of patriotic energy for the Chinese peasantry. 
B) the remnants of feudal and Confucianist ideas would undermine the progress he had made. 
C) the indoctrination of people was going to take a long time and needed to be perpetuated. ​ 
D) the United States would launch an attack on The People's Republic of China to support the pro-Western forces in Taiwan. 
E) that Khrushchev had lost momentum when he allowed for a tenuous thaw in hardline policies.

Question 4

The policy advocated by Georgy Malenkov after Stalin's death was known as:​

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A) peaceful coexistence 
B) Great leap forward 
C) square deal 
D) new course 
E)  samizdat 
A) peaceful coexistence 
B) Great leap forward 
C) square deal 
D) new course 
E)  samizdat

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Confucianism and the CCP

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Confucianism is an ancient Chinese ethic

Question 6

In responding to recent social and political challenges, the Chinese Communist Party has, as an antidote, the philosophy of

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A) Deng Xiaoping. 
B) Marx and Lenin. 
C) Mao Zedong. 
D) Confucius. 
E) Sun Yat-sen. 
A) Deng Xiaoping. 
B) Marx and Lenin. 
C) Mao Zedong. 
D) Confucius. 
E) Sun Yat-sen.

Question 7

All of the following are true about events in Poland from 1980 to 1991 except

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A) mass public demonstrations caused significant changes in government policy. 
B) huge rises in food prices helped to give rise to Solidarity. 
C) by the end of 1990, the nation had freely elected a new president. 
D) Soviet troops occupied the country in December 1990. 
E) Solidarity's support burgeoned and, by late 1981, it was backed by almost one-third of the population. 
A) mass public demonstrations caused significant changes in government policy. 
B) huge rises in food prices helped to give rise to Solidarity. 
C) by the end of 1990, the nation had freely elected a new president. 
D) Soviet troops occupied the country in December 1990. 
E) Solidarity's support burgeoned and, by late 1981, it was backed by almost one-third of the population.

Question 8

Why did the Kosygin reforms under Brezhnev fail?​

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A) They were resisted by the bureaucracy of the Soviet system. 
B) They relied on increased corn production in the Virgin Lands Campaign. 
C) US economic sanctions against Russian grain. 
D) The reforms relied on decreased spending on arms that was negated with American moon landing. 
E) The Politburo felt they were too radical and liberal. 
A) They were resisted by the bureaucracy of the Soviet system. 
B) They relied on increased corn production in the Virgin Lands Campaign. 
C) US economic sanctions against Russian grain. 
D) The reforms relied on decreased spending on arms that was negated with American moon landing. 
E) The Politburo felt they were too radical and liberal.

Question 9

A lexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 indictment of the Soviet system was in his critical book ​

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A)  Notes from Underground. 
B)  Dr. Zhivago. 
C)  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 
D)  ​Gulag Archipelago 
E)  ​Crime and Punishment 
A)  Notes from Underground. 
B)  Dr. Zhivago. 
C)  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 
D)  ​Gulag Archipelago 
E)  ​Crime and Punishment

Question 10

Which of the following has occurred in Chinese life since the Revolution?

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A) Female foot binding has regained popular support. 
B) Under Mao, the government made an effort to strengthen the role of the family. 
C) Individual economic achievement was encouraged during the Cultural Revolution. 
D) In the post-Mao era, there has been an emphasis on idealistic utopianism. 
E) Today, many Chinese people, especially the young, are trying to Westernize their dress and appearance. 
A) Female foot binding has regained popular support. 
B) Under Mao, the government made an effort to strengthen the role of the family. 
C) Individual economic achievement was encouraged during the Cultural Revolution. 
D) In the post-Mao era, there has been an emphasis on idealistic utopianism. 
E) Today, many Chinese people, especially the young, are trying to Westernize their dress and appearance.

Question 11

As an instrument of perestroika , glasnost allowed

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A) the banning of many books. 
B) criticism of the government and Soviet society generally. 
C) the exclusion of Western culture from the Soviet Union. 
D) the abandonment of political reforms. 
E) the development of new airports in Siberia. 
A) the banning of many books. 
B) criticism of the government and Soviet society generally. 
C) the exclusion of Western culture from the Soviet Union. 
D) the abandonment of political reforms. 
E) the development of new airports in Siberia.

Question 12

Because of the ideology of the class struggle of the proletariat, the new elite in the Soviet world was made up exclusively of peasants.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"We will bury you"

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"We will bury you" is a phrase famously

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Lech Walesa and Solidarity

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Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissi

Question 15

"A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another," Mao wrote.  Why did the embedding of Communism in China, as well as Russia, rely on violence as a means to obtain and maintain the State?  How did this justify the use of repressive measures against the respective populations, when the intended goal was to benefit the people and provide an equality-based utopia?​

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The embedding of Communism in China and

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
the missing "fifth modernization"

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The term "fifth modernization" refers to

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Great Leap Forward

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The Great Leap Forward was a campaign in

Question 18

How did Nikita Khrushchev change the system that the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had put in place before his death in 1953? To what degree did his successors adopt Khrushchev's policies? How did the domestic and foreign policy goals and policies of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev differ, and why? Would the Soviet Union have been better off if Khrushchev had been in power longer? Explain.

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Nikita Khrushchev made several significa

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"commonwealth of independent states"

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The Commonwealth of Independent States (

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Red Guards

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The Red Guards were a mass paramilitary

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Mikhail Gorbachev

How have six decades of Communist rule affected the concept of the family in China? How does the current state of the family in China compare with the family in other parts of the world?

Mao argued for "uninterrupted revolution" because he and the Communist Party believed

The policy advocated by Georgy Malenkov after Stalin's death was known as:

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Confucianism and the CCP

In responding to recent social and political challenges, the Chinese Communist Party has, as an antidote, the philosophy of

All of the following are true about events in Poland from 1980 to 1991 except

Why did the Kosygin reforms under Brezhnev fail?

A lexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 indictment of the Soviet system was in his critical book

Which of the following has occurred in Chinese life since the Revolution?

As an instrument of perestroika , glasnost allowed

Because of the ideology of the class struggle of the proletariat, the new elite in the Soviet world was made up exclusively of peasants.

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "We will bury you"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the missing "fifth modernization"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Great Leap Forward

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "commonwealth of independent states"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Red Guards

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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Exam 14: Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Mikhail Gorbachev

How have six decades of Communist rule affected the concept of the family in China? How does the current state of the family in China compare with the family in other parts of the world?

Mao argued for "uninterrupted revolution" because he and the Communist Party believed​

The policy advocated by Georgy Malenkov after Stalin's death was known as:​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Confucianism and the CCP

In responding to recent social and political challenges, the Chinese Communist Party has, as an antidote, the philosophy of

All of the following are true about events in Poland from 1980 to 1991 except

Why did the Kosygin reforms under Brezhnev fail?​

A lexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 indictment of the Soviet system was in his critical book ​

Which of the following has occurred in Chinese life since the Revolution?

As an instrument of perestroika , glasnost allowed

Because of the ideology of the class struggle of the proletariat, the new elite in the Soviet world was made up exclusively of peasants.

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "We will bury you"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the missing "fifth modernization"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Great Leap Forward

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "commonwealth of independent states"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Red Guards

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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Mao argued for "uninterrupted revolution" because he and the Communist Party believed

The policy advocated by Georgy Malenkov after Stalin's death was known as:

Why did the Kosygin reforms under Brezhnev fail?

A lexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 indictment of the Soviet system was in his critical book