Establishment of Communist China 1949

Question 1

What was the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 1

Long wall between the right wing government forces of the Republic of China and left wing People’s liberation Army

Question 2

What was the Republic of China called?

Answer 2

Kuomintang

Question 3

What did the People’s liberation Army fight for?

Answer 3

Chinese Communist Part (CCP)

Question 4

Where did the communist find most of their support?

Answer 4

Among the landless and starving Chinese peasants

Question 5

When was there a truce between the two sides?

Answer 5

During World War II

Question 6

What did the Kuomintang battle during WWII?

Answer 6

Japanese invaders

Question 7

What did the communist forces assist in during the World War II?

Answer 7

Fighting a guerilla war against the Japanese

Question 8

What did the Communist also encourage?

Answer 8

Popular support for the ideology

Question 9

Who is the first person to sign the United Nations Charter?

Answer 9

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 10

When was the United Nations Charter signed?

Answer 10

After the war ended

Question 11

How did China become one of the five permanent members of the United Nations security council?

Answer 11

Signed the United Nations Charter

Question 12

What did the USA an attempt to get Chiang to form?

Answer 12

A coalition government with the Chinese Communist

Question 13

Why did the USA attempt to help China?

Answer 13

To stop the Chinese Civil War from breaking out again

Question 14

Did the Chinese Civil War break out again?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

Who was defeated during the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 15

Chiang’s Kuomintang

Question 16

What did Chiang’s Kuomintang receive during the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 16

American aid

Question 17

What were the Communist under?

Answer 17

Mao Zedong

Question 18

What did the communist then control?

Answer 18

Chinese mainland

Question 19

When was the People’s Republic of China establish?

Answer 19

1 October 1949

Question 20

What is the People’s Republic of China referred to as?

Answer 20

China or Red China

Question 21

After the formation of Red China what happened to Kuomintang?

Answer 21

Chiang return to the island of Taiwan

Question 22

Who surrendered Taiwan and when?

Answer 22

Taiwan was surrendered by the Japanese at the end of World War II

Question 23

What did Kuomintang re-establish in Taiwan?

Answer 23

Re-established the Republic of China

Question 24

What is the Taiwan Strait?

Answer 24

Area of sea between Taiwan and mainland China

Question 25

What led to the first and second Taiwan Strait crises?

Answer 25

Number of islands in the Taiwan Strait we distributed by Taiwan and China

Question 26

What did Mao object to in terms of the UN Security Council?

Answer 26

The Chinese seat in the UN continuing to be held by Chiang’s Taiwan

Question 27

What happened in 1912?

Answer 27

Nationalist revolt overthrew the imperial Manchu dynasty

Question 28

Who were the national this increasing the challenge by?

Answer 28

Communist movement

Question 29

Who participated in the 10,000 km long March?

Answer 29

The Communist from 1934 to 1935

Question 30

What was the long march intention?

Answer 30

To escape the harassment by the nationalist – emergence of Mao a Communist leader

Question 31

What is the national this also known as?

Answer 31

Guomindang

Question 32

What was the Long March?

Answer 32

The Communist army reached a new base in Northwest China. Dangerous journey because the marches more of an attack by their enemies in the national this army.

Question 33

How many people survived the long march?

Answer 33

One third