Dates

Question 1

when did the CPPCC meet

Answer 1

September 1949

Question 2

1949 essay by Mao

Answer 2

“on the people’s democratic dictatorship” - he wanted to “arouse the masses” and he introduced a system of democratic centralism

Question 3

when was the new constitution introduced

Answer 3

1954 - declared “all power in the people’s republic belongs to the people”

Question 4

when was korean war

Answer 4

1950 - 53

Question 5

when was a conscription law passed and how many people a year were recruited

Answer 5

1955 - 800,000

Question 6

when was “campaign to supress the counter revolutionaries” launched

Answer 6

march 1950

Question 7

when was “three Antis campaign” launched

Answer 7

august 1951

Question 8

when was “five Antis campaign” launched

Answer 8

February 1952

Question 9

Mao’s decree of February 1951

Answer 9

“regulations regarding the punishment of counter revolutionaries”

Question 10

when did Chinese troops enter the Tibet’s capital

Answer 10

November 1950

Question 11

when was tibet invaded

Answer 11

october 1950

Question 12

when did Mao declare he wanted to raise pop. of Tibet

Answer 12

November 1952

Question 13

when was all resistance cleared in Xiangjiang by

Answer 13

March 1950

Question 14

amount of people in labour camps in 1955

Answer 14

1.3 million

Question 15

when did Mao declare “let a hundred flowers bloom” and why

Answer 15

2nd May 1956
- wanted help from intellectuals as the economic production had stalled, but his reunification campaigns had been successful and his land reform policies were popular

Question 16

when did Mao try again to get help of intellectuals after “let a hundred flowers bloom” failed

Answer 16

February 1957

Question 17

when did Mao flip after being pissed off when he was criticised by Hundred flowers campaign

Answer 17

June 1957

Question 18

when did Mao launch Agrarian land reform

Answer 18

June 1950

Question 19

when was agrarian land reform largely completed by

Answer 19

summer of 1952

Question 20

when were MATs introduced

Answer 20

December 1951

Question 21

when was the second stage toward collectivisation introduced

Answer 21

1953

Question 22

When were APCs started

Answer 22

Pace of development varied across the country, some started in 1954

Question 23

when and what was enforced collectivisation

Answer 23

started in1956 - Peasants in APCs only compensated for labour now, land and equipment was taken over by the state

Question 24

August 1958

Answer 24

Private farming abolished
Politburo declared communes to be “the basic social units of communist society “

Question 25

when and where was the first commune established

Answer 25

Henan province - July 1958 -“sputnik commune”

Question 26

when was the 4 pests campaign launched

Answer 26

1958

Question 27

when did Mao name Lysenkoism to be his official agricultural policy

Answer 27

1958

Question 28

when was the first 5 year plan

Answer 28

1952-56

Question 29

when was the Sino-soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty

Answer 29

February 1950

Question 30

when was the second 5 year plan

Answer 30

1958-62

Question 31

when did Khrushchev recall soviet experts

Answer 31

1960

Question 32

when was the Lushan conference

Answer 32

July 1959

Question 33

when did Liu and Deng take over from Mao

Answer 33

1962

Question 34

when did Liu give a speech dismissing Mao’s claims that successes of GLF outweighed failures by 9 to 1 and the claim that weather caused it to fail

Answer 34

Jan 1962