China-2 Flashcards
Percentage of funding Stalin provided to Mao
90%
Total number of people that died under Mao’s reign
70 million
Term for the collection of Mao’s sayings/writings that all Chinese were required to carry
Little Red Book
Put people in concentration camps
Mao Zedong
China explodes its first nuclear weapon
1964
Number of years Mao was in power
27
Number of deaths of starvation and overwork
38 million
Person that became communist leader of China after Mao died in 1976
Deng Xiaoping
Person that was kicked out of the Chinese Communist Party by Mao for not being communist enough during the Cultural Revolution
Deng Xiaoping
Person who was a moderate in the Chinese Communist Party
Deng Xiaoping
In the middle; Not too extreme; a balance
Moderate
Person that was a Radical
Mao Zedong
Very to the extreme; aka hardliner
Radical
A person with a very strict interpretation of communism
Hardliner
Deng Xiaoping’s plan to modernize China and make it a world power
Four Modernizations
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Science and technology
- Military
Four Modernizations
Term for make more factories, new machinery, assembly-line
Industry
Irrigation, hybrids, better machinery
Agriculture
Education (send bright students to the US to get an education)
Science and technology
Better weapon systems, more training
Military
Deng Xiaoping introduced the Four Modernizations (it began)
1978
Four Modernizations supposed to end
2000
Deng Xiaoping’s System to modernize industry and agriculture
Responsibility System (part of 4 Modernizations)
People involved in the agriculture aspect of the Responsibility System
Farmers
Amount required by the government; have to meet
Quota (aka “number”)
Amount above and beyond the quota
Surplus
People involved in the industry aspect of the Responsibility System
Factory manager
Surplus mindset of Agriculture
Sell it and make a profit or keep it and eat it
Surplus mindset of industry
A bonus for workers or improve working conditions
Deng Xiaoping died
1997
The government makes people want to work; motivation
Incentive
Two main ways of motivating workers
Money and time off
M/D/Y Mikail Gorbachev visits Beijing
5/15/89
Statue that students placed in Tianamen Square
Goddess of Democracy
Number of hunger strikers at the peak of the T-2 protests
3000
Height of the goddess of democracy in feet
30
M/D/Y of Tianamen Square
6/4/89
Tank guy picture
6/5/89
Conference Hall for Tianamen square protesters and where student protesters would meet
Kentucky fried chicken (KFC)
Protests were over 1 million
5/17 – 5/18
Days and nights attempt to build the statue (Goddess of democracy)
3
Number of people it took to build the statue (Goddess of democracy)
30
The goddess of democracy is unveiled in Tianamen Square
5/30/89
M/D Chao goes to Tianamen Square
5/19
M/D/Y protests first reached 1 million
5/17/19
M/D/Y protests reached over 1 million for the second time
5/18/89
M/D/Y protests reached over 1 million for the third time
5/23/89
Icon for the building of the GOD
Statue of Liberty
M/D/Y GOD came down
6/4/89
Number of foreign journalists that covered Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to Beijing
1000
Chinese communist party leader in 1987
Hu Yaobang
Person who supported a student lead democracy of 1986-1987
Hu Yaobang
Until1987, person that was planned to be the next leader of china
Hu Yaobang
Person who was fired by Deng Xiaoping for supporting the pro-democracy movement in 1987
Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang died
4/15/89
This persons death sparked the Tianamen Square movement
Hu Yaobang
Chinese Communist Party leader in 1989
Zhao Ziyang
M/D/Y Zhao speaks to students in T-2 and announces he’s done
5/19/89
Years Zhao was under house arrest
1989-2005
Year Zhao died
2005
Total number of tanks during the tank guy picture
18
Population of china
1.3 B
Country that has the worlds largest population
China
Population of the US
300 million
Number if how many more people live in china than live in the US
1 B
Term for the stuff that is pumped out of the ground through wells (nasty stuff)
Crude oil
Terms for the useful oil found in products and gasoline
Petroleum
Top 5 suppliers of oil to the US
- Canada (north america)
- Mexico (north amerca)
- Saudi Arabia (middle east)
- Venezuela (south america)
- Nigeria (africa)
The top 5 suppliers have not changed from…. To…..
1998-now
Total number of counties in NA in the top 10 oil suppliers to the US
2
Total number of counties in SA in the top 10 oil suppliers to the US
2
Total number of counties in Africa in the top 10 oil suppliers to the US
3
Total number of counties in ME in the top 10 oil suppliers to the US
2
Percentage of US imported oil that comes from the top 5 countries
74%
Percentage of US imported oil that comes from the top 10 countries
92%
