AOS2 Flashcards

1
Q

When was the Marriage Law issued?

A

May 1950

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2
Q

What did article 48 of the constitution say?

A

“The state protects the rights and interests of women”

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3
Q

When were the cleanliness drives?

A

1950

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4
Q

What did Fenby say of the other parties?

A

“Window dressings”

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5
Q

When was the Korean War (China’s involvement)?

A

1950

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6
Q

How many Chinese troops partook in the Korean War?

A

350,000

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7
Q

What was the result of the Korean War?

A

An economic embargo on China

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8
Q

When was Fanshen?

A

1950

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9
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When was the Agrarian Reform law?

A

1950

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10
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How many does Becker estimate were killed in Fanshen?

A

2-5 million

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11
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What did Short say of Fanshen?

A

“Wedded to the new revolutionary order in a way that passive spectators never could be”

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12
Q

What did Mao say of Fanshen?

A

“The peasants are clear sighted”

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13
Q

When was the Thought Reform campaign?

A

1950s

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14
Q

When was Sanfan?

A

1951

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15
Q

What were the 3 antis?

A

Corruption, waste, bureaucratism

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16
Q

What did Mao say of Sanfan?

A

“Following the policy of educating and remoulding”

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17
Q

When was Wufan?

A

1952

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18
Q

What did the 5 antis include?

A

Tax evasion and fraud

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19
Q

How many businesses were investigated in Wufan?

A

450,000

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20
Q

What did Gray say of Wufan?

A

“An opportunity to pulverise China’s capitalists”

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21
Q

When was the first 5 year plan?

A

1953-1958

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22
Q

How much of the budget was dedicated to heavy industry?

A

88.8%

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23
Q

How much did production increase by in the FFYP?

A

10-16%

24
Q

How much did food production grow by in the FFYP?

A

2-3%

25
Q

What did Liu Shaoqi say of collectivisation?

A

“No collectivisation without mechanisation”

26
Q

When was Gao Gang purged?

A

1954

27
Q

How many peasants were in cooperatives by December 1956?

A

97%

28
Q

When did Mao move to the second line?

A

1956

29
Q

When was the 100 Flowers Campaign?

A

1956-1957

30
Q

When was the anti-rightist campaign?

A

1957

31
Q

How many were sent for reeducation in the anti-rightist campaign?

A

3-4,000

32
Q

What did an intellectual say of the 100 flowers?

A

“Dog shit one moment and 10,000 ounces of gold the next”

33
Q

What did Halliday say of the 100 Flowers?

A

“Mao was setting a trap”

34
Q

What did Short say of the 100 Flowers?

A

“The most ambitious attempt to combine a totalitarian system with democratic checks and balances”

35
Q

When was the GLF launched?

A

1958

36
Q

How many people made up a commune in the GLF?

A

100,000

37
Q

What was the real and reported harvests in 1958?

A

Real- 200 million tonnes

Reported- 450 million tonnes

38
Q

What did short say of Mao in the GLF?

A

“On an adrenaline high pumped up by the limitless vista of a bright communist future”

39
Q

What did Salisbury say of the smelting drive?

A

“The country looked as if it had been picked clean by iron eating ants”

40
Q

What did Wende say of the GLF?

A

“We ate well during the smelting drive”

41
Q

When was the Wuhan Plenum?

A

1958

42
Q

When did Liu assume presidency?

A

1959

43
Q

What did Salisbury say of Lushan?

A

“A claque, clapping hands and nodding heads like mechanical dolls”

44
Q

What did Mao say of blame for famine?

A

“My direct responsibility”

45
Q

When were the famine years?

A

1959, 1960, 1961

46
Q

How many died in the famine?

A

30 million

47
Q

What did Fairbank say of the famine?

A

“All time first class Mao made famine”

48
Q

When was the Cultural Rev?

A

1961-1976

49
Q

When was Learn From Lei Feng?

A

1963

50
Q

When was the little red book published for mass readership?

A

1966

51
Q

When was the 4 olds and Mao’s swim?

A

1966

52
Q

What did Hsu say of the SEM?

A

“Hardship to be endured”

53
Q

What did Pufeng say of the Cultural Rev?

A

“100 million people were its victims”

54
Q

What did Mao say to encourage purging during the cultural rev?

A

“All those in positions of authority taking the capitalist road”

55
Q

What did Lo Yiren say of the Cultural Rev?

A

“Worse than beasts”

56
Q

What did the communists achieve by 1951 in terms of inflation??

A

Decrease of 85,000% to 15%