AP Chapter 21 - AP World History

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Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution?

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Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution?

Fidel Castro

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What was the dangerous dimension of the Cold War that was expressed during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Nuclear weapons arms race

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How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last after the discovery of the missiles?

13 days after American discovery

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What is the other word for the struggle for independence?

Decolonization

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Which nationalist organization in Algeria led the country to independence from France?

National Liberation Front (NLF)

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What did India's independence movement find expression in?

Indian National Congress

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What is the Indian National Congress?

Political party led by Mohandas Gandhi that freed India from Britain

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What did the growing skepticism about the possibility of a single Indian state find expression in?

Muslim League

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Who was the primary leader of the Congress Party that rejected modern industrialization?

Mohandas Gandhi

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What was Mohandas Gandhi also known as?

Mahatma

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What was an effort to mobilize China's enormous population for rapid development & to fully move into a communist society?

Great Leap Forward

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During China's Great Leap Forward, what was the land collected by the government divided into?

Peoples communes

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What campaign did Mao Zedong launch in the mid-1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that penetrated even the highest ranks of the communist party?

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

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Who led China in 1976 following Mao Zedong's death?

Deng Xiaoping

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Between which years was the Korean War fought?

1950-1953

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What model of socialist modernization did China initially sought to follow with important variation?

Soviet Union

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How many new independent states were created following the collapse of the Soviet Union?

15 states

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Parallel communist reform processes unfolded in the USSR under the leadership of who?

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Which USSR leader led the projects of perestroika & glasnost?

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Who was the leader of the USSR in the mid-1980s?

Mikhail Gorbachev

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What did perestroika mean?

Restructuring

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What did glasnost mean?

Openness

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Which reform policy implemented in the USSR was also wanted in Eastern Europe?

Glasnost

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