China 2 - Agriculture and Industry 1949-65 Flashcards

1
Q

When was the Agrarian Land Reform Law?

A

1950

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2
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When was the Sino-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty?

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1950

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3
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When were MATs?

A

1951

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4
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When was the 1st Five Year Plan?

A

1952-56

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5
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When were APCs?

A

1953

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6
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When was the New Constitution?

A

1954

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7
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When were higher APCs?

A

1955

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8
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When was the first commune?

A

1958

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9
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When was the Great Leap Forward?

A

1958-62

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10
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When did the famine begin?

A

1959

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11
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When was the Lushan Conference?

A

1959

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12
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When did Soviet Advisors leave?

A

1960

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13
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When were grain imports?

A

1961

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14
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When was the power struggle between Mao and Liu and Deng?

A

1962

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15
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When were pragmatic reforms?

A

1962

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16
Q

When was the Chinese Atomic Bomb tested?

A

1964

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18
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How many bicycles were produced in the 1st 5 year plan?

A

Double the amount targetted

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18
Q

What was the first commune called?

A

Sputnik

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19
Q

How many landlords were executed in struggle meetings?

A

1-2 million

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20
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How much land was redistributed?

A

43% land was redistributed to 60% of the population

21
Q

How many households were involved in struggle meetings?

A

88%

22
Q

How much did agricultural productions increase from 1950-52?

A

15% per annum

23
Q

How many households were in MATs?

A

10

24
Q

Why were MATs not that effective?

A

They formalised existing arrangements

25
Q

How many households were in APCs?

A

30-50

26
Q

How many people were in APCs by 1955?

A

16.9 out of 110 million

27
Q

How much did production increase under APCs?

A

2% per annum

28
Q

What were the groups formed in the disagreements about collectivisation?

A

Gradualists and radicals

29
Q

How many households were in higher APCs?

A

200-300

30
Q

How many peoples were in APCs by 1956?

A

96% in APCs
88% in higher APCs

31
Q

How did higher APCs and APCs differ?

A

Higher APCs were bigger and people only got compensated for labour, not land or equipment

32
Q

How many APCs were turned into communes?

A

740,000 into 26,000

33
Q

What was the combination of agricultural and industrial production called?

A

Walking on two legs

34
Q

What were the four pests?

A

Sparrows, rats, flies, mosquitoes

35
Q

What was the impact of the four pests campaign?

A

Plague of caterpillars

36
Q

What was the official agricultural policy called?

A

Lysenkoism

37
Q

What were the successes of the first five year plan?

A

16% growth per annum
Industrial production increased 15.5%
Heavy industry tripled

38
Q

How much did the working class increase during the first 5 year plan?

A

6 to 10 million

39
Q

What were the failures of the 1st 5 year plan?

A

Agriculture only increased 2.1% pa
Dependant on loans from the USSR
Health and education wasn’t prioritised

40
Q

What were the successes of the GLF?

A

Irrigation schemes
Tiananmen Square
3 Gorges Dam
Ideologically Socialist

41
Q

What were the failures of the GLF?

A

Backyard furnace campaigns
Industrial production fell 40%
Famine

42
Q

How many people died in the famine?

A

30 million

43
Q

What worsened the famine?

A

Typhoons and droughts

44
Q

Why was Peng Duhuai exiled?

A

He raised concerns about the famine at the Lushan conference

45
Q

When did Liu admit that the famine was manmade?

A

1962

46
Q

Who designed the 3rd 5 year plan?

A

Chen Yun

47
Q

What improved in the 3rd 5 year plan?

A

Light industry grew 27% pa
Heavy industry grew 17% pa
Consumer goods doubled

48
Q

When did production return to the 1957 level?

A

1965

49
Q

What were the main policies of the 3rd 5 year plan?

A

Experts promoted, communes were scaled back, reduced roles of low level cadres