Agriculture and Industry 1949-65

Question 1

Sino-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty

Answer 1

February 1950

Question 2

Agrarian Land Reform Law

Answer 2

June 1950

Question 3

MATs (Mutual Aid Teams)

Answer 3

December 1951

Question 4

40% peasant households in MATs

Answer 4

1952

Question 5

First 5 Year Plan

Answer 5

1952-1956

Question 6

APCs (Voluntary Agricultural Producers Cooperatives)

Answer 6

1953

Question 7

Higher APCs

Answer 7

1955

Question 8

Private Industry Abolished

Answer 8

1956

Question 9

96% peasant households in APCs, of that 88% in higher APCs

Answer 9

December 1956

Question 10

First commune named Sputnik

Answer 10

July 1958

Question 11

Second 5 Year Plan (Great Leap Forward (GLF))

Answer 11

1958-1962

Question 12

Four Pests Campaign

Answer 12

1958

Question 13

Communes said to become ‘the basic social units of communist society’

Answer 13

August 1958

Question 14

Backyard Furnaces Campaign

Answer 14

1958

Question 15

The percentage of China’s steel came from local furnaces, went up from 14% to 49%

Answer 15

September 1958 - October 1958

Question 16

Famine

Answer 16

1959-1962

Question 17

Lushun Conference (Peng Dehaui raised concerns)

Answer 17

July 1959

Question 18

1400 soviet intellectuals in China

Answer 18

Summer 1960

Question 19

All soviet advisors had left China

Answer 19

September 1960

Question 20

Retreat from GLF

Answer 20

1960

Question 21

Grain Imports

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

Power struggle between Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping

Answer 22

1962

Question 23

Liu Shaoqi admitted the famine was man-made

Answer 23

1962

Question 24

Pragmatic Reforms

Answer 24

1962

Question 25

Chinese A bomb tested

Answer 25

1964