Question 1

Which of the following is not true about the events that occurred in the Soviet Union in December 1991?

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A) Boris Yeltsin was president of the Russian Republic. 
B) The Soviet Union was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States. 
C) Gorbachev resigned and turned over his power as commander-in-chief to Yeltsin. 
D) The Congress of People's Deputies denied Yeltsin the temporary power to rule by decree. 
E) One of the largest empires in history came to an end. 
A) Boris Yeltsin was president of the Russian Republic. 
B) The Soviet Union was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States. 
C) Gorbachev resigned and turned over his power as commander-in-chief to Yeltsin. 
D) The Congress of People's Deputies denied Yeltsin the temporary power to rule by decree. 
E) One of the largest empires in history came to an end.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"Four Modernizations"

Accepted Answer

The "Four Modernizations" refer to a set

Question 3

Chernobyl was the Russian word for "openness."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Among the greatest failures of the process of collectivization in China was

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A) trying to convert desert and undesireable land into arable plots. 
B) reinforcing the traditional family unit as a newly-conceived economic unit instead. 
C) the starvation of up to 35 million people. 
D) brutal suppression of the private market as sabotage of the revolution. 
E) the ability to transition to a free market economy. 
A) trying to convert desert and undesireable land into arable plots. 
B) reinforcing the traditional family unit as a newly-conceived economic unit instead. 
C) the starvation of up to 35 million people. 
D) brutal suppression of the private market as sabotage of the revolution. 
E) the ability to transition to a free market economy.

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
KGB

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The KGB, or Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezo

Question 6

The leader of Poland's Solidarity movement was

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A) Wladyslaw Gomulka. 
B) Edward Gierek. 
C) Lech Walesa. 
D) Wojciech Jaruzelski. 
E) Vaclav Havel. 
A) Wladyslaw Gomulka. 
B) Edward Gierek. 
C) Lech Walesa. 
D) Wojciech Jaruzelski. 
E) Vaclav Havel.

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"double shift"

Accepted Answer

The term "double shift" can refer to dif

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
the "four olds"

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The "Four Olds" refer to a concept that

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"When I die, the imperialists will strangle all of you like a litter of kittens."

Accepted Answer

The quote "When I die, the imperialists

Question 10

Mao Zedong's New Democracy

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A) was designed to expel the Turkic population from western China. 
B) moved slowly at first, in order not to alienate the peasants. 
C) gave private land to five percent of peasant families, to increase collectivization. 
D) was patterned on Stalin's "Open Society" plan. 
E) was modeled upon that found in France during the "Terror." 
A) was designed to expel the Turkic population from western China. 
B) moved slowly at first, in order not to alienate the peasants. 
C) gave private land to five percent of peasant families, to increase collectivization. 
D) was patterned on Stalin's "Open Society" plan. 
E) was modeled upon that found in France during the "Terror."

Question 11

The initial program of land collectivization in Communist China was

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A) modeled after that created in India after 1947. 
B) instituted before the first Five-Year industrial plan was begun. 
C) done in a much less confrontational manner than Stalin had used in the Soviet Union. 
D) able to achieve the increases in agricultural output that Mao had expected. 
E) a highly successful attempt to increase China's agricultural production. 
A) modeled after that created in India after 1947. 
B) instituted before the first Five-Year industrial plan was begun. 
C) done in a much less confrontational manner than Stalin had used in the Soviet Union. 
D) able to achieve the increases in agricultural output that Mao had expected. 
E) a highly successful attempt to increase China's agricultural production.

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago

Accepted Answer

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"uninterrupted revolution"

Accepted Answer

The term "uninterrupted revolution" refe

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Boris Yeltsin

Accepted Answer

Boris Yeltsin was a Russian political fi

Question 15

In East Germany,

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A) Communist repression was nonexistent. 
B) huge influxes of people from the West occurred in the 1980s. 
C) the Christian Democrats achieved little electoral success in 1990. 
D) the fall of communism resulted in political reunification with West Germany in 1990. 
E) there was great fear and loathing in Germany at the prospect of German unification. 
A) Communist repression was nonexistent. 
B) huge influxes of people from the West occurred in the 1980s. 
C) the Christian Democrats achieved little electoral success in 1990. 
D) the fall of communism resulted in political reunification with West Germany in 1990. 
E) there was great fear and loathing in Germany at the prospect of German unification.

Question 16

What strategies were used by leaders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China as they sought to build Communist societies in their countries? In what ways were the strategies different, and in what ways were they similar? To what degree were they successful? How has the Chinese Communist Party, to date, been able to retain power while that of the Soviet Union lost control of the state apparatus? Show why.

Accepted Answer

The leaders of the Soviet Union and the

Question 17

Stalin's economic policy after World War II was more successful in providing consumer goods than in promoting the growth of heavy industry.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In what ways did the cultural environment in Soviet Russia begin to reflect the changes of both the thaw under Khruschev and the restrictions of the Brezhnev era?  How did the ideas of glasnost  affect the expression of cultural ideas? ​

Accepted Answer

The cultural environment in Soviet Russi

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Spratly Islands and Diaoyu Islands

Accepted Answer

The Spratly Islands and the Diaoyu Islan

Question 20

How has the current generation of leadership in China used traditional values to solidify Communist control over the country? To what degree does this approach contradict the theories of Karl Marx?

Accepted Answer

The current generation of leadership in

Which of the following is not true about the events that occurred in the Soviet Union in December 1991?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "Four Modernizations"

Chernobyl was the Russian word for "openness."

Among the greatest failures of the process of collectivization in China was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. KGB

The leader of Poland's Solidarity movement was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "double shift"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the "four olds"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "When I die, the imperialists will strangle all of you like a litter of kittens."

Mao Zedong's New Democracy

The initial program of land collectivization in Communist China was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "uninterrupted revolution"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Boris Yeltsin

In East Germany,

Stalin's economic policy after World War II was more successful in providing consumer goods than in promoting the growth of heavy industry.

In what ways did the cultural environment in Soviet Russia begin to reflect the changes of both the thaw under Khruschev and the restrictions of the Brezhnev era? How did the ideas of glasnost affect the expression of cultural ideas?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Spratly Islands and Diaoyu Islands

How has the current generation of leadership in China used traditional values to solidify Communist control over the country? To what degree does this approach contradict the theories of Karl Marx?

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

Which of the following is not true about the events that occurred in the Soviet Union in December 1991?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "Four Modernizations"

Chernobyl was the Russian word for "openness."

Among the greatest failures of the process of collectivization in China was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. KGB

The leader of Poland's Solidarity movement was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "double shift"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the "four olds"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "When I die, the imperialists will strangle all of you like a litter of kittens."

Mao Zedong's New Democracy

The initial program of land collectivization in Communist China was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "uninterrupted revolution"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Boris Yeltsin

In East Germany,

Stalin's economic policy after World War II was more successful in providing consumer goods than in promoting the growth of heavy industry.

In what ways did the cultural environment in Soviet Russia begin to reflect the changes of both the thaw under Khruschev and the restrictions of the Brezhnev era? How did the ideas of glasnost affect the expression of cultural ideas? ​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Spratly Islands and Diaoyu Islands

How has the current generation of leadership in China used traditional values to solidify Communist control over the country? To what degree does this approach contradict the theories of Karl Marx?

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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In what ways did the cultural environment in Soviet Russia begin to reflect the changes of both the thaw under Khruschev and the restrictions of the Brezhnev era? How did the ideas of glasnost affect the expression of cultural ideas?