China 2 - Agriculture and Industry 1949-65

Question 1

When was the Agrarian Land Reform Law?

Answer 1

1950

Question 2

When was the Sino-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty?

Answer 2

1950

Question 3

When were MATs?

Answer 3

1951

Question 4

When was the 1st Five Year Plan?

Answer 4

1952-56

Question 5

When were APCs?

Answer 5

1953

Question 6

When was the New Constitution?

Answer 6

1954

Question 7

When were higher APCs?

Answer 7

1955

Question 8

When was the first commune?

Answer 8

1958

Question 9

When was the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 9

1958-62

Question 10

When did the famine begin?

Answer 10

1959

Question 11

When was the Lushan Conference?

Answer 11

1959

Question 12

When did Soviet Advisors leave?

Answer 12

1960

Question 13

When were grain imports?

Answer 13

1961

Question 14

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

Answer 14

1962

Question 15

When were pragmatic reforms?

Answer 15

1962

Question 16

When was the Chinese Atomic Bomb tested?

Answer 16

1964

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Double the amount targetted

Question 18

What was the first commune called?

Answer 18

Sputnik

Question 19

How many landlords were executed in struggle meetings?

Answer 19

1-2 million

Question 20

How much land was redistributed?

Answer 20

43% land was redistributed to 60% of the population

Question 21

How many households were involved in struggle meetings?

Answer 21

88%

Question 22

How much did agricultural productions increase from 1950-52?

Answer 22

15% per annum

Question 23

How many households were in MATs?

Answer 23

10

Question 24

Why were MATs not that effective?

Answer 24

They formalised existing arrangements

Question 25

How many households were in APCs?

Answer 25

30-50

Question 26

How many people were in APCs by 1955?

Answer 26

16.9 out of 110 million

Question 27

How much did production increase under APCs?

Answer 27

2% per annum

Question 28

What were the groups formed in the disagreements about collectivisation?

Answer 28

Gradualists and radicals

Question 29

How many households were in higher APCs?

Answer 29

200-300

Question 30

How many peoples were in APCs by 1956?

Answer 30

96% in APCs 88% in higher APCs

Question 31

How did higher APCs and APCs differ?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

How many APCs were turned into communes?

Answer 32

740,000 into 26,000

Question 33

What was the combination of agricultural and industrial production called?

Answer 33

Walking on two legs

Question 34

What were the four pests?

Answer 34

Sparrows, rats, flies, mosquitoes

Question 35

What was the impact of the four pests campaign?

Answer 35

Plague of caterpillars

Question 36

What was the official agricultural policy called?

Answer 36

Lysenkoism

Question 37

What were the successes of the first five year plan?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

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

Answer 38

6 to 10 million

Question 39

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

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What were the successes of the GLF?

Answer 40

Irrigation schemes Tiananmen Square 3 Gorges Dam Ideologically Socialist

Question 41

What were the failures of the GLF?

Answer 41

Backyard furnace campaigns Industrial production fell 40% Famine

Question 42

How many people died in the famine?

Answer 42

30 million

Question 43

What worsened the famine?

Answer 43

Typhoons and droughts

Question 44

Why was Peng Duhuai exiled?

Answer 44

He raised concerns about the famine at the Lushan conference

Question 45

When did Liu admit that the famine was manmade?

Answer 45

1962

Question 46

Who designed the 3rd 5 year plan?

Answer 46

Chen Yun

Question 47

What improved in the 3rd 5 year plan?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

When did production return to the 1957 level?

Answer 48

1965

Question 49

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

Answer 49

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