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- Technique used by the United Stated to make advances towards Japan during WWII.
- Involved capturing key islands that supplied the rest, instead of capturing every one.
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- Developed during Manhattan project
- Two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and another on Nakasaki
- Resulted in the death of about 300,000 people
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- Women gained more independence in WWII and the years following in the United States.
- Japanese took women from conquered areas to be used as "comfort women" for the Japanese soldiers.
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- Local for of government in the USSR.
- An effort to practice direct democracy.
- Often corrupt in nature, people held very little power.
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- A Russian Marxist revolutionary
- Communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917
- Headed Soviet state during initial years
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- Civil war fought between Bolshevik Red Army and anti-Bolshevik White Army
- Red Army was victorious, installed a communist form of government in Russia
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- Brutal Russian dictator who led the USSR after the death of Lenin.
- Installed a highly centralized command economy in the USSR.
- "Great Purge" caused fear throughout Russia.
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- Centralized economic plans in the USSR initiated by Joseph Stalin.
- Set economic goals in a finite amount of time.
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- A solution to the lack of agriculture in the Soviet Union.
- Consolidated individual land and labor into collective farms.
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- A series of political oppression and murder in the Soviet Union directed by Joseph Stalin.
- Caused the death of millions of people.
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- Sun Yat Sen: a leader Chinese revolution, and founding father of the Republic of China.
- Jiang Jeshi: Nationalist leader during the Chinese revolution.
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- Leader of the communist revolution in China.
- Held authoritarian control over the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976.
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- A civil war betwen the Nationalist and Communist parties in China.
- Led to the creation of the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China in Taiwan
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