Basic Understanding

Question 1

Name the economic factors for Mao’s emergence:

Answer 1

• Hyperinflation
• Peasants had little food and land
• US loan

Question 2

Name the political factors in Mao’s emergence:

Answer 2

• 100 years of humiliation and opium wars
• Failure of revolutionary league and republic of China
• Warlord states

Question 3

Name the social division factors in Mao’s emergence:

Answer 3

• Peasants hated government and landowners (Hunan revolt)
• Rise in population (peasantry)
• Students hated foreign influence and Qing dynasty (May 4th protests)
• Long march and Yan’an Soviet

Question 4

Name the ideological factors in Mao’s emergence:

Answer 4

• Mao Zedong Thought
• Personality Cult
• Yan’an spirit

Question 5

Name the war factors in Mao’s emergence:

Answer 5

• Sino-Japanese war
• Red army
• Civil War

Question 6

Name the legal factors in Mao’s maintenance of power :

Answer 6

• Single state
• Structure of party
• Structure of country
• State constitution 1954
• Living standards

Question 7

Name the use of force factors in Mao’s maintenance of power :

Answer 7

• Self criticism and rectification against bourgeoisie
• Struggle sessions (landlords)
• Purges
• Laogai Camps
• Cultural Revolution

Question 8

Name the propaganda factors in Mao’s maintenance of power :

Answer 8

• Cultural Revolution and PLA

- Examples

Question 9

Name the treatment of opposition factors in Mao’s maintenance of power :

Answer 9

• Mass movements
• Hundred Flowers Campaign 1956
• Anti-rightist campaign 1957

Question 10

Name the leadership factors in Mao’s maintenance of power :

Answer 10

• Continuous revolution
• Ruthless determination
• Self Criticism and rectification (GLF 1858-61)