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 * __ Russia __****__ and China 1914 – Present __**


 * 1. Read In Depth p.684 take brief notes and answer the questions (5 points)**

**In Depth: A Century of Revolutions (page 684) ** - revolutionary movements til 1945 were struck with fury -# of factors resulted in the revolutions -rural discontent was crucial (peasants provided vital contribution to the 20th century revolution -modern state forms tended to increase taxes on the peasantry, while making traditional protest harder -intellectual climate -influence from West -Russia, China, and Mexcio saought to reduce Western economic control and and cultural influence -handcraft goods were thrown aside by machine-crafted goods -economic slumps ressulted in the burning in the fire of revolution (foundation) -returning soliders and neglected veterans provided shock troops for leftist revolutions and fascist pretenders alike -erosion of defeared state witnessers' power to surpress the internal enemies and floundered as their armies refused to defend them or joined the movement of an overthrow

**__Question__**:What internal and external forces weakened the government of Mexico and China in the opening decades of the 20th Century and unleased the forces of revolution? What key social groups were behind the revolutions in Mexico, China, and Russia, and why were they so important in each case? What similarities and differences can you identify among these three early revolutions in the 20th Centuy? __**Answer**__:The external forces that weakened the government of Mexico and China was the Western influences, but the internal forces were themselves because they were constantly on the rise of diffculties with the fighting the Western influences, neglecting retired veterans, and having returned soliders who do not know what to do. Their economic situation also created problems because it caused tensions inside of the nation.
 * Russia **


 * 2. Take outline notes on Russia (25 points)**


 * Revolution in Russia p681-685
 * Stalinism in the Soviet Union p698-703
 * Eastern Europe after WWII p750-759
 * Explosion of the 1980s and 1990s p841-847


 * To receive full credit for your notes you must include the following terms/people in your notes. You must also include Main Ideas**


 * //Kerensky, Lenin, Bolsheviks, Stalin, Collectivization, Soviets, Five-year plans, Socialist Realism, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Glasnost, Perestroika, Yeltsin, Putin//**

3. Complete a leadership analysis of //__either__// Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin or Nikita Khrushchev (5 points)

4. Write a thesis statement for the following questions (10 points)**

China
 * Analyze the changes and continuities in Russian political structure from 1914 to the present
 * Analyze the changes in Russian Society from 1914 to the present
 * 5. Take outline notes on China from 1912-Present (20 points)**
 * Toward Revolution in China 685-689
 * Mao’s China and Beyond 823-830


 * To receive full credit for your notes you must include the following terms/people in your notes. You must also include Main Ideas**


 * May Fourth Movement, Li DaZhao, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, Long March, People’s Republic of China, Mass Line approach, Great Leap Forward, Jiang Qing, Cultural Revolution, Gang of Four.**

6. Read add take __brief__ notes on //Democratic Protest and Repression in China// 848-849 – Answer the questions at the end of the document (5 points)

7. Complete a leadership analysis on Mao Zedong (5 points)

8. Write a thesis statement for the following questions (10 points)**
 * Analyze the changes and continuities in Chinese politics from 1914 to the present
 * Analyze the changes in Chinese Society from 1914 to the present

** Comparison **

Write an outline in the structure provided for the two essays below – You will receive a score based on the AP rubric. This part will be a quiz grade


 * 9. Essay 1: Compare 20th Century political developments in China and Russia.**


 * 10. Essay 2: Compare and Contrast 20th Social developments in China and Russia. Be sure to discuss the changing roles of women**

Thesis Statement:

Topic Sentence #1: (Must indicate what you will be comparing/contrasting) Evidence of Topic Sentence that relates to thesis Direct Comparison(s) that supports your topic sentence Analysis of Direct Comparison

Topic Sentence #2: Evidence of Topic Sentence that relates to thesis Direct Comparison(s) that supports your topic sentence Analysis of Direct Comparison

Topic Sentence #3: Evidence of Topic Sentence that relates to thesis Direct Comparison(s) that supports your topic sentence Analysis of Direct Comparison

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