A) was an economic success, raising agricultural production fifteen percent in two years.
B) created huge rural communes but failed economically.
C) was a more conservative approach to land reform.
D) was aimed at organizing urban Chinese life.
E) produced such success that Mao became deified in China.
G) A) and E)
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A) Ivan Denisovich
B) Yuri Andropov
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Konstantin Chernenko
E) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
G) B) and C)
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B) False
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A) The Red Guard
B) University instructors
C) Opponents of Hu Jintao
D) Protesters at Tiananmen Square
E) Supporters of Xi Jinping
G) C) and D)
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B) False
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A) sought to end collectivization.
B) placed an emphasis on the growth of heavy industry.
C) focused on consumer goods.
D) led to the imprisonment of 2 million returning soldiers accused of "capitalist subversion."
E) called for the exile of thousands of former czarist officials.
G) B) and D)
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A) each peasant was required to produce enough food for ten people.
B) limited private capitalism was permitted to return to China.
C) socialism was abandoned in China.
D) Chinese society became much more isolated.
E) China became much more democratic.
G) C) and D)
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A) was the well-placed son of the head of the state oil-refining corporation.
B) was picked for political leadership because of his record as a KGB data interpreter.
C) had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.
D) had spent many years as a farmer.
E) had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.
G) A) and B)
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A) were held liable to collect their respective village's tax payments.
B) leased farmland on contract to peasant families.
C) forced peasant families to pay a quota in the form of rent to a village magistrate.
D) all Chinese farmers took responsibility for at harvest time.
E) was instituted by Mao after his initial agricultural reform failure during the Great Leap Forward.
G) B) and E)
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A) "four olds"
B) Little Red Book
C) "thought"
D) Great Leap Forward
E) "capitalist road"
G) B) and E)
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A) valued stability above all, and blocked any significant attempts to deal with economic or social problems.
B) greatly increased the funding for new agricultural areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
C) sharply reduced the powers of the KGB and Interior Ministry.
D) was the first to finally break with Stalinism and to conciliate the Czech regime.
E) was a sincere admirer of the policies of Khrushchev.
G) A) and C)
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A) Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and, two years later, of Hong Kong.
B) Yuri Andropov made major changes in Soviet industrial management by giving top positions in the oil and transport industries to executives from Japan and the West.
C) Richard Nixon praised Mao Zedong's "mass line" system as not only effective but "as American as apple pie."
D) Stalin's reputation rose somewhat under Brezhnev's rule.
E) Lyndon Johnson ended the Vietnam War.
G) B) and D)
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B) False
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A) had increased food production by tapping new, rich lands in Siberia and Turkmenistan.
B) decided to provide a "socialist bonus" of more consumer goods for the masses by slowing the expansion of heavy industry.
C) was in short supply of housing, and continued to be in short supply.
D) sharply reduced military spending, but only after the surrender of Japan.
E) moved toward greater liberalization.
G) All of the above
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A) launch the Great Cultural Revolution.
B) establish an essentially capitalist economy.
C) reunify mainland China with Taiwan.
D) make great strides in ending the chronic problems of poverty and underdevelopment.
E) implement new free speech initiatives, including protections for criticizing the government.
G) A) and B)
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B) False
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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 engaging in efforts to Westernize their dress and appearance.
G) None of the above
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A) forming small agricultural collectives.
B) joining the country's public works force.
C) establishing various cottage industries.
D) practicing population control.
E) becoming factory workers.
G) B) and D)
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B) False
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A) peaceful coexistence.
B) Great leap forward.
C) square deal.
D) new course.
E) Samizdat.
G) D) and E)
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