Communist China

Question 1

A political revolution in China led by Mao Zedong. After several years of fighting the Kuomintang, the communists won control of the country in 1949.

Answer 1

Chinese Communist Revolution

Question 2

Nationalist, revolutionary, founding father of the republic of China, “Nationalist China”
President
Co-founded the Kuomintang
Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the peoples livelihood

Answer 2

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)

Question 3

General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.

Answer 3

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 4

Political party that ruled China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists known as Chinese nationalists.

Answer 4

Guomindang

Question 5

Sun Yat-Sen, unified China and founded the Chinese Republic in 1912. After Sun Yat-Sen’s death in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek took over the Guomindang and fought for control of China against the communists led by this man. A civil war began in China that would last 22 years

Answer 5

Mao Zedong

Question 6

The youths who led Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Wore red arm bands and carried his book. Terrorized Chinese citizens and determined who went to forced labor camps for going against the communist party.

Answer 6

Red Guards

Question 7

A book circulated throughout China during the reign of Mao Zedong, which contained his political philosophy for China & his own quotes on “proper communist living”. It was a required reading in all schools.

Answer 7

Little Red Book

Question 8

Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.

Answer 8

People’s “Republic” of China

Question 9

About 100 miles off China’s southeastern coast, used to be a providence of China for several hundreds years, and the followers of Chiang Kai-Shek of China fled to this country for nationalism after losing to the communists. Today social & economic rules are more relaxed here than on mainland China.

Answer 9

Taiwan

Question 10

A military retreat led by Mao Zedong. Over 100,000 communists fled the Guomindang for 6,000 miles. Barely 20,000 survived. Finally, after years of war the Communists won in 1949

Answer 10

Long March

Question 11

Mao won support of the huge peasant population by promising to give away land. Mao won support of women by promising more equality. Many Chinese felt the Kuomintang (Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists) were corrupt and under foreign influence

Answer 11

Why Communism Won in China?

Question 12

Increase farm and factory output, Communes, Quotas, Program fails, Famine (2 million+ starve to death)

Answer 12

The Great Leap Forward

Question 13

Renew Communist Loyalties, Red Guards attack professors and other officials, Economy slows, China closes to outside world, People fear arrest

Answer 13

The Cultural Revolution

Question 14

Deng’s goals for China, in agriculture, industry, defense, and science & technology, ended communes, farm production increased, people’s incomes increased, food production increased

Answer 14

Four Modernizations

Question 15

1976, Mao Zedong died. This man took control. His leadership brought economic freedom but little political change

Answer 15

Deng Xiaoping

Question 16

Event where people in China protested in 1989 against the government. They were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law. Troops with assault rifles and tanks killed at least several hundred demonstrators trying to block the military’s advance. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated at anywhere between the hundreds to the thousands

Answer 16

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Question 17

A former British colony in China, given to Britain after China lost the first Opium War. It was returned to China in 1997 with the promise the people living there would be able to retain economic & social freedoms. Recently mainland China proposed stricter rules such as people being tried for crimes on mainland China causing alarm that their freedoms may slowly be taken away.

Answer 17

Hong Kong

Question 18

A program in China implemented in the late 1970’s early 1980’s in order to limit most Chinese families to address the growth rate of the country’s population in urban areas. The program officially ended in 2016 now families are allowed to have 2 children.

Answer 18

One Child Policy

Question 19

Still communist, no voting system, people have no rights or freedoms, 1.3 billion people, 2nd largest global economic power, majority of people are poor

Answer 19

China today