Select the Word or Phrase That Best Matches the Definition

question 17

Multiple Choice

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
-A massive attempt in the 1930s to cleanse the Soviet Union of supposed "enemies of the people";nearly a million people were executed between 1936 and 1941,and 4 million or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag.

• A)Russian Revolution (1917)
• B)Bolsheviks
• C)Lenin
• D)Guomindang
• E)Mao Zedong
• F)Chinese Revolution
• G)Stalin
• H)building socialism
• I)Zhenotdel
• J)collectivization
• K)Cultural Revolution
• L)Great Purges/Terror
• M)Anna Dubova
• N)Cuban Revolution
• O)Cuban missile crisis
• P)Nikita Khrushchev
• Q)Deng Xiaoping
• R)perestroika
• S)glasnost
• T)Mikhail Gorbachev

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Definitions:

GABA

Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, a neurotransmitter in the brain that inhibits many neurons from firing, reducing activity in the nervous system.

Neuron

A cell that conducts electrochemical signals; the basic unit of the nervous system; also called a nerve cell.

Dendrites

A neuron’s branches that receive information from other neurons and transmit it toward the cell body.

Axon

A neuron’s extending fiber that conducts impulses away from the cell body and transmits them to other neurons.