Chapter 22

Building Socialism Definition

A political system where the government or people control resources and industries

Process of how communism became inactive

Building Socialism Significance

• Showed the challenges and difficulties of reform

• Caused significant amount of deaths

Cuban Missile Crisis Definition

Soviet placing nuclear missiles in Cuba to attack the US ending in a compromise

Cuban Missile Crisis Significance

• The closest the world had come to a nuclear war

• Caused anxiety & fear

• Could cause major environmental destruction

Deng Xiaoping Defintion

The Chinese ruler after Mao Zedong, who introduced socialism

Deng Xiaoping Significance

• Transformed China’s economy to capitalism

• Modernized Chinese economy and helped the poor

Perestroika / Glasnot Definition

The reforming and undoing of many USSR policies around censorship

Perestroika / Glasnot Significance

• Led to the weakening and collapse of the Soviet Union

• Citizens gained independence for factories and market reforms

• Freedom of speech

• Ending of communism in su