Authoritarian States Review

Question 1

An example of legal method, used by both Mao and Castro, to maintain political power.

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Make the Communist Party the only legal political party.

Question 2

Both Mao and Castro followed the strictest interpretations of Marxism

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False

Question 3

Laogais or UMAPs, these were used to punish those who opposed policies of Mao & Castro

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Labor camps

Question 4

What was the name of the revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro during his rise to power?

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M-26-7

Question 5

Mao sent the PLA into various parts of China to establish control through these campaigns

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Reunification campaigns

Question 6

Like Stalin, Mao used this system of terror to remove anyone regarded as a threat.

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Purges

Question 7

Both Mao and Castro were authoritarian rulers during this historical time period

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The Cold War

Question 8

Castro established these to monitor the people's behavior to ensure loyalty to the revolution

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Committees for the Defense of the Revolution

Question 9

Both Mao and Castro held this opinion about the arts

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Art was only to contribute to or uplift the revolution

Question 10

The time period after 1991 in Cuba following the collapse of the Soviet Union

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The Special Period

Question 11

The Red Army became this once Mao rose to power

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The People’s Liberation Army

Question 12

A series of movements that Mao used to target crimes such as waste, corruption and tax evasion

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The Anti-Movements

Question 13

Public court hearings where the accused were declared enemies of the people = great propaganda

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Show trials

Question 14

Castro illustrated himself as this to his own people and people around the world

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A champion of the oppressed

Question 15

Batista often used this for his own personal use, at one point emptying it before he fled Cuba.

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The Cuban Treasury

Question 16

The name of the platform in which Castro outlined the goals of his revolutionary movement

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The Moncada Program

Question 17

Castro waged guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime in this region between 1956-1959.

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The Sierra Maestra Mountains

Question 18

Living Colour’s 1988 break-out hit sang about this characteristic of both Mao and Castro

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Cult of personality

Question 19

Both Mao & Castro believed their countries would achieve independence & greatness through this.

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Rapid Industrialization

Question 20

Occurring in 1980, this is one of the biggest examples of Cubans fleeing Cuba under Castro.

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Mariel Boatlift

Question 21

The name used by Mao for people who had lost faith in the revolution

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Reactionaries

Question 22

Mao’s regime used this system, to restrict the movement of peasants.

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The Household Registration System

Question 23

An interpretation of communism found in China, that all CCP members had to accept.

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Maoism

Question 24

Used to break "class enemies" by forcing intense self-criticism & admission of guilt in public

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Struggle sessions

Question 25

What did “The Year of Ten Million” mean?

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10 million tons of sugar produced by 1970.

Question 26

During the Great Leap Forward, Mao required peasants to use agricultural strategies known as:

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Lysenkoism

Question 27

One of the many groups of people that Mao attacked in many of his campaigns

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Intellectuals, Artists, Landowners

Question 28

These were two rights that Castro believed were essential human rights

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The right to a free education for all, The right to free healthcare for all

Question 29

What Mao called anything or anyone whose power, he believed, was more apparent than real.

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Paper tigers

Question 30

Economic strategy of depriving peasants of their land & requiring them to live/work in communes

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Collectivization

Question 31

The elected body of CCP members, some of which were appointed to the Politburo & State Council

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The National People’s Congress

Question 32

Both Mao and Castro ruled during

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The second half of the Twentieth Century

Question 33

This CIA-backed coup failed and only strengthened Castro’s support among the people

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Question 34

Mao/Castro tried to improve women's rights, but this was more likely the aim of such policies.

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Increasing the size of the country's workforce

Question 35

Both China and Cuba experienced long periods of this before the rise of Mao and Castro

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Civil War

Question 36

The Argentinian revolutionary who helped design Cuba’s economic policies.

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Che Guevara

Question 37

One of the first reforms of both Mao & Castro, intended to redistribute land among the people

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Land reform

Question 38

Mao & Castro used this type of economic system

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Communism, Command Economy

Question 39

A group of extremists during the Cultural Revolution that was led by Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing

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The Gang of Four

Question 40

What was Cuba’s major source of revenue, so much so that its economy was dependent on it?

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Sugar

Question 41

Began with slogan, “Let one hundred flowers bloom. Let one hundred schools of thought contend.”

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The Hundred Flowers Campaign

Question 42

People who ruthlessly controlled much of China from 1916-1926 & who exploited the peasants

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Warlords

Question 43

An economic system in which privileged landowners made the landless work for them

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Feudalism

Question 44

Year that Castro “temporarily suspended elections” & year that elections were first held

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1959, 1976

Question 45

Under this campaign, farmers’ markets banned, bonuses abolished, & self-employment discouraged.

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The Rectification Campaign

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