Domestic Policies

Question 1

Economic

Answer 1

• agragrian reform
• first five year plan
• great leap forward

Question 2

First 5 year plan goal

Answer 2

(1953-57)

• modernize china’s heavy industry
• increase agricultural production
• collectivization and industrilization
• socialist transformation

Question 3

how was this goal achieved?

Answer 3

• mutual aid team; introduce economics of scale models (all peasants share)
• transition to collectivization
• merging of mutual aid teams into larger copperatives
• move to small scale operatives

Question 4

Results of 5 year plan

Answer 4

• 30% city population growht
• industrial and agricultural increase
• mao introduces new constition
• is ended as mao wants more ‘human spirit’ instead of machines’

Question 5

goal of Great Leap Forward

Answer 5

(1958-62)
communist nation
catch up with us
modernize
rely on human spirit and population

Question 6

Great Leap Forward how?

Answer 6

communes
individual efforts of people
work points and targets

Question 7

Great Leap Forward successes

Answer 7

health care
infrastructure
womens liberation and equality
some steel and iron production
population reduction

Question 8

Great Leap Forward failures

Answer 8

• womens liberation failed; had to care for childrne
• traditional family life destroyed
• canniabilsm and stealin; low morale
• sparrow campaign
• famine and starvation (36 million died)
• floods and draughts
• backyard steel furnaces
• peasant exploitation and exaustion (2 million killed for lack of work efficency)
• mao lost power; soviet-chino alliance
• lui shaoqui takes over in lushan confrence
• poor commune management

Question 9

cultural revolution

Answer 9

Causes
Failure of Great Leap Forward caused widespread opposition to Mao’s leadership
Communist Party rebuilds without Mao’s guidance
Mao fears Communist Party leaders were becoming a new “ruling class”

Goals:
	1. Mao wanted to:
Regain his leadership status
Re-energize the revolutionary spirit of young people
Remove from power of all who opposed him

HOW?

• using red guards and education reforms
• little red book
• cult of mao
• propaganda and self adveristment as spiritual leader
• attak on leaders and factory owners

Results of the Cultural Revolution

1. thousands die
2. hundreds of thousands imprisoned
3. millions of careers ruined
4. damage sets China’s production back 10-20 years

Question 10

yangste river

Answer 10

“mao returns” 1966

• swims with army in yangste river
• propaganda
• after river, makes laces to bombard HQ and regain power

Question 11

hundred flowers campaign

Answer 11

(1956-57)

• opinion survey in China
• cristism allows for CPC to target opposition and intellectuals
• creates fear of opposing mao
• anti-rightists movement as result

Question 12

marriage reform

Answer 12

(1950)
divorce made legal
arranged marriages illegal

Question 13

foot bonding abolishment

Answer 13

1950
human rights
traditionalists opposed it