Changes under Mao

Question 1

Changes in Agri

Answer 1

1949-1957
Agrarian reform law in 1950
Landlord class system gone
Mao wanted a class war
1949 80% worked in agri but productivity was low increased poverty
1950-51 MATS
1952 40% joined
1953-55 APCS
1957 90% joined

Question 2

Collectivisation

Answer 2

1956- 1960
No private ownership
1968 700 mill placed in collectives

Question 3

Great famine

Answer 3

1958-62
Forced collectivisation
No incentive work
Decrease in production
Four Noes cmaping
Political pressures
Drought and flooding
50 mill died
Tibet was the worst hit

Question 4

Changes in women

Answer 4

Marriage law 1950
Arranged marriage was illegal
Domestic abuse illegal
Concubines illegal
Could own and inherit properties
25% young couples got divorced

Question 5

Political changes

Answer 5

Thought reform 1951-52
Struggle sessions w uni teachers
3 antis campaign 1951
Corruption waste and gov. inefficiency
4 mill executed
Had to stop as jobs not getting done
5 antis campaign
Theft of state property
Tax evasion
Bribery
Cheating on state contracts
450,000 priv properties investigate = made the state richer and workers happy

Question 6

100 flowers campaign

Answer 6

Criticism of the CCP
1957 had become very critical and wanted democracy = purges and sent to reeduaction camps
Reasons: Kruschev, Get rid of oppisition thought there would be gratitude helf reform the party

Question 7

Changes in industry

Answer 7

1st five year plan 1953-58 60% of the industry is state owned mainly invested in the infrastructure but agriculture couldn’t keep up.

Question 8

The great leap forward

Answer 8

May 1958-62 Second 5 year plan to modernise china’s industry Liu Shaoqi decides socialsim Mao headstronfg no foreign influence surplus to be exported

Question 9

Key features of the GLF

Answer 9

Increase in steel productions
Moved from APC to full collectivisation
Private companies come under state control
Whole population has 1 common goal
Huge projects comissioned

Question 10

Effects of the GLF

Answer 10

Production of coal increased to 300million tonnes in 1960
Decrease in wider business production due to being under state control
Steel production was poor quality backyard furnaces
Mao sends Soviet experts home too early
Mao humiliated goes into hiding very few public appearances.

Question 11

Cultural Revolution

Answer 11

1966-68 red guards unleashed
attack on education capitalist roaders
August 1 mill go to Tianenem square in Beijing for rebel against authority

Question 12

Cultural Revolution

Answer 12

1968-1976 Mao realizes the violence has gone too far send PLA to break up the Red Guard
Schools reopen and RG newspaper shut down
Up the mountains down to the villages campaign for reeducation
17 mill sent to rural areas

Question 13

Purges