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