Definition: A group of collective farms.
Significance: The people had to give up all of their property so that everything could be owned and controlled by the commune. Everyone had set targets they had to meet and keep a certain level of production.
2. Term: Great Leap Forward/1958-1960
Definition: Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy by developing agriculture and industry.
Significance: Families were divided into communes and they could no longer own their own property. This seemed successful in the beginning but soon consequences began to arise. The workers were given impossible tasks and injuries rose in the factories. Needed food was not being harvested and in some parts of China starvation occurred. The Great …show more content…
This is usually done by getting rid of enemy regimes.
Significance: The U.S. entered the Korean War to defend South Korea from a communist invasion. The U.S. and the United Nations decided to adopt a Rollback strategy and overthrow the Communist North Korean regime.
11. Term: Perestroika/1980s
Definition: One of Gorbachev’s economic reforms to pop up the centrally planned economy and his attempt to reduce corruption.
Significance: This was to make communism work more efficiently and meet the demands of the Soviet people.
12. Term: Glasnost/1980s
Definition: Gorbachev’s attempt to making decision making more transparent.
Significance: Glasnost allowed for more freedom of speech and relaxed censorship.
13. Term: Solidarity/1980s
Definition: An aggressive independent trade union federation led by Lech Walesa.
Significance: The workers in the Lenin shipyard went on strike and demanded to form an independent trade union. They struggled to improve working conditions and brought an end to communist rule. This later led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
14. Term: Hungarian Revolution/1956
Definition: A revolt against Soviet forces that spread through Budapest and the rest of …show more content…
Term: Zhou Enlai/1898-1976
Definition: An important and leading figure in the Chinese Communist Party.
Significance: Enlai was concerned about the fighting between the Red Guards and the revisionists. He called for an end to these attacks on party officials. Enlai and was the main maker of the Détente policy with the United States.
17. Term: Jiang Qing/1914-1991
Definition: Wife of Mao and member of the Gang of Four
Significance: Jiang was known for her intense speeches and her involvement with the Red Guard group. She became the first deputy head of the Cultural Revolution and gained power over China’s cultural life. She became a cultural leader and spokeswoman for Mao’s new policy.
18. Term: Deng Xiaoping/1904-1997
Definition: A Chinese communist leader who took over after Mao died.
Significance: Xiaoping left behind many of the communist doctrines and brought in components of the free-enterprise system into the economy. He developed reforms that were able to restore China back to economic growth and stability.
19. Term: Leonid Brezhnev/1906-1982
Definition: First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and President of the Soviet