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30.3 Flashcards

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1
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Where do communists advance in the late 1940s?

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East Asia

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2
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What victory did comm get in 1949 and what did they now control?

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  • Victory in China
  • SU ruled 1/5 of the worlds population
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3
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Who led the communist forces?

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Mao Zedong

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4
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What did the communists fight?

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A cold war against Nationalists led by Jiang Jieshi

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5
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Who won and what did they set up after their victory?

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Mao won and set up the People’s Republic of China

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6
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Where did Nationalists flee to?

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Taiwan

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7
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Why did Mao win the cold war?

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  • Mao had peasant support
  • Taxes were crushing peasants before Mao
  • Communists ended landlord operations
  • Poor peasants got land
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8
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Why did Nationalists lose support?

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Because of the Nationalist policies that caused economic hardship

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9
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What did many resent about Jieshi?

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  • His corruption
  • His reliance on imperialist powers
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10
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What did the population hope that communism would end?

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Foreign domination

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11
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How did Mao win the cold war?

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Because of the support of the communist countryside
- They took over railroads

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12
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What did communist win in 1950 (country)

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Tibet

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13
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Who fled Tibet in 1959?

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Dalai Lama (religious leader)

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14
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What did the communist ideology guide reshape?

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  • Economy
  • Society that China inherited from the dynastic period
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15
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What beliefs did the communist gov discourage?

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  • Buddhism
  • Confucianism
  • Other chinese beliefes
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16
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Who did the government take land away from?

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  • Rural landlords
  • Business owners
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17
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What are counterrevolutionaries?

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Opponents of communism

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18
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What group of people were accused of being counterrevs?

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Bourgeoisie

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19
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What happened to those accused of being counterrevs?

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They were…
- Beater
- Sent to labor camps
- Killed

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20
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Why was land distributed to communists?

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To help agriculture

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21
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Mao called for collectivization, what does that mean?

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Forced pooling of peasant land and labor, in an attempt to increase productivity

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22
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What program did Mao lead in 1958-1960?

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The Great Leap Forward

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23
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What was the great leap?

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A time where Mao urged people to make superhuman efforts to increase industry and farm output

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24
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What did Mao create to make agriculture more efficient?

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Communes

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25
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What are communes?

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Commonly owned and operated farms of communities

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26
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What was a typical commune?

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Brought together villages and 1000 acres of land 25,000 people

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27
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What was a rural commune?

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“Backyard industries”, production of steel and other products

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28
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Was the Great Leap a success?

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No

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29
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Backyard industries had what kind of production?

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Low quality production

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30
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How did the commune system cut food supply output?

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  • Food output cut by removing incentives for industrial farmers and families
  • Neglected farmland and food shortages
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31
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What did farming problems lead to?

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Famine

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32
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How many Chinese starved to death in 1959-1961?

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55 million

33
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How did China recover from the great leap?

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By reducing the size of communes

34
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What did Mao launch in 1966?

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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

35
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What was the goal of the GPCR?

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Purge china of bourgeois tendencies

36
Q

What did the GPCR urge young generations to do?

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Experience the revolution first hand

37
Q

What did teenagers form and what did they wave around?

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  • Red guard
  • The little red book
38
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Who did the red guards attack?

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The bourgeois accused (usually by public humiliation)

39
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Skilled workers were forced to do what?

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Leave jobs and do manual labor and work on labor camps

40
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What buildings closed (2 of them)

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  • Schools
  • Factories
41
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What was there a threat of?

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Civil war

42
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What did Mao have the army do?

A

Restore order

43
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Who were unseasy allies in the 1950s?

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  • SU
  • Peoples Republic of China
44
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What did Stalin send to china?

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  • Economic aid
  • Tech experiments
45
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What caused the SU to take away their aid to china in 1960?

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Dispute over ideology

46
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What country did the US support ever after JJ left?

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China

47
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What did Washington refuse to do?

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Recognize PRC diplomatically because he saw it as a communist threat

48
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What did it mean to play the China card?

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US isolated the SU between NATO (west) and hostile china (east)

49
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What did the US allow PRC to do?

A

Replace Taiwan in the UN in 1971

50
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What did the US set up with China in 1979?

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Diplomatic relations

51
Q

What did JJ gov continue to rule Taiwan under?

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Material law as a one party dictatorship

52
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What did the Taiwan government allow in the 1980s?

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Opposing parties

53
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When did China threaten Taiwan?

A

When Taiwan declared independence (military threat)

54
Q

Who conquered Korea in the early 20th century?

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Japan

55
Q

What did the US and SU do to Korea after WW2?

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Divided Korea on the 38th parallel after Japan lost

56
Q

North Korea was ruled by who and became an ally to who?

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  • Ruled by Kim il Sung
  • Communist ally
57
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South Korea was ruled by who and became an ally to who?

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  • Ruled by Syngman Rhee
  • US ally
58
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What did Kim call for in 1950?

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Heroic struggle to reunite Korea

59
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What did the US organize to help SK?

A

UN force

60
Q

What happened in June between NK and SK?

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NK attacked SK and overran most of SK

61
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UN stopped NK where?

A

Pusan Perimeter

62
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Where did the US cut of NK?

A

The railroads
They cut off…
- Food supply
- Ammunition

63
Q

What alarmed Mao and what did he do about it?

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NK defeat and he sent 1000s of Chinese troops to NK

64
Q

What did NK and SK sign in 1953?

A

Armstice

65
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2 million NK and SK troops remained where?

A

Demilitarized zone

66
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What was the demilitarized zone?

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An area with no military forces

67
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There was no what between NK and SK?

A

Peace treaty

68
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NK…

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  • Command economy
  • Economic struggle
  • SU aid
  • Single dictator
69
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SK…

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  • Capitalist market economy
  • Economic gain
  • US aid
  • Series of dictators and military leaders
70
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What country reunites after the CW?

A

Germany

71
Q

What economy was ahead in 1960s?

A

SK

72
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What did the government hold in 1987?

A

Direct elections

73
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What did the elections create?

A

Smooth transition to decomcracy

74
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What economy slowed in the 1960s?

A

NK

75
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What did Kim’s emphasis on self-reliance do?

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Kept NK isolated and poor

76
Q

What did the government build around kim?

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Cult

77
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What was Kim glorified as?

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the great leader

78
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SU and China took what while NK stuck to what?

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  • SU and C took economic reforms
  • NK stuck to strict communist rules

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