Establishing communist rule 1949-57

Question 1

What percentage of China lived in poor and rural areas in 1949

Answer 1

80%

Question 2

Which island did nationalists flee to in 1949

Answer 2

Taiwan

Question 3

Political power in the CCP was ultimately controlled by 5 party members of which executive body?

Answer 3

The standing committee

Question 4

Complete Mao’s quote “all political power lies in … “

Answer 4

the barrel of a gun

Question 5

What were the three antis

Answer 5

Campaign against - corruption, waste and obstructionist bureaucracy

Question 6

When did Mao launch the 100 hundred flowers campaign

Answer 6

1956-57

Question 7

What was the slogan for the 100 flowers campaign

Answer 7

“A hundred flowers to bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”

Question 8

Which day did Chinese troops halt the advance of US forces and began their invasion of South Korea

Answer 8

29th of October 1950

Question 9

What year was the Three antis campaign launched

Answer 9

1951

Question 10

What did the Five antis campaign aim to eradicate

Answer 10

Bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts and stealing state economic information.

Question 11

What speech did Nikita Khrushchev give that made Mao nervous and when did it take place

Answer 11

In February 1956, Khrushchev made a speech that denounced Stalin’s cult of personality

Question 12

What did Mao do as a result of the 100 flowers campaign

Answer 12

He launched the anti-rightist campaign

Question 13

How many ‘rightists’ did the anti-rightist campaign purge

Answer 13

between 400,000 to 700,000

Question 14

How many Chinese soldiers sent to intervene died in the Korean War

Answer 14

400,000

Question 15

How many Chinese soldiers sent to intervene in Korean War

Answer 15

3 million

Question 16

What lead to famine during the war

Answer 16

Forced requisition of grain to supply armed forces

Question 17

How much did the Korean war cost China

Answer 17

10 billion dollars

Question 18

When did China win the civil war

Answer 18

October 1949

Question 19

What were some problems China faced as a result of the civil war

Answer 19

Destroyed economy (Hyperinflation), educated elite had fled to Taiwan, Nationalists continued to be a threat

Question 20

USSR dismantled their factories in Manchuria, what was the factories output

Answer 20

44% below its 1933 level

Question 21

What did all employees belong to in 1949

Answer 21

The Danwei, controlled permits needed for travel or marriage

Question 22

How many people killed who were against the CCP in this period of consolidation of control.

Answer 22

2 million

Question 23

What were the main ways the CCP got the country under control?

Answer 23

Fear and terror, propaganda and popular policies

Question 24

What was the nickname given to the new system of government

Answer 24

Democratic Centralism

Question 25

How do the CCP use the Korean War to strengthen their control over China

Answer 25

Makes the country united by having a common enemy.

Question 26

What did Mao call rightists

Answer 26

Poisonous weeds that needs to be silenced