History 202-Final Flashcards
Chiang Kai-shek
WHO/WHAT: Leader of the GUomingdang after the death of Sun Yatsen.
WHEN: 1925-1934
WHERE: CHINA
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Turned against his CCP allies which began a bloody battle ending the CCP’s Long March. He led China through the 1930’s depression although it did not have a big effect on China. He also faced Japanese aggression. He was overthrown by MAO ZEDONG and the CCP and fled to TAIWAN.
The LONG March
WHO/WHAT: The CCP of CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY was trying to escape the nationalist party.
WHEN: October 1934
WHERE: Outskirts of CHINA, covering 10,000 Kilometers.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: During the LONG March, MAO ZEDONG emerged as a leader, and principal theoretician of the Chinese communist movement.
May 4th Movement, 1919 (CHINA)
WHO/WHAT: Protests by students and intellectuals against the results of the 1919 Peace Conference.
WHEN: MAY 4th 1919
WHERE: CHINA URBAN AREAS
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: After initially being supportive of modeling CHinese reform after Europe and UNITED STATES, flipped to communism after the decision to allow Japan to interfere in CHINa.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
WHO/WHAT: National Security Advisor to President Carter.
WHEN: 1977-1981
WHERE: CHINA, AFGHANISTAN, & IRAN
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Influential in the making of policy regarding the support of the Taliban in Afghanistan to resist the Soviet UNion’s invasion & negotiations with Iran to release the American hostages held captive there.
Sun YATSEN
WHO/WHAT: Prominent nationalist leader in CHINA.
WHEN: during MAy 4th protests (early 1900s)
WHERE: CHINA
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Sun Yatsen did not share the communist enthusiasm for a dictatorship. Rather, Sun called for elimination of special privileges for foreigners, national reunification, economic development, & a democratic republican government based on universal suffrage. ESSENTIALLY CREATING THE GUOMINDANG OR NATIONALIST PEOPLE’S PARTY, WHO OPPOSED THE CCP (chinese communist party) THESE TWO GROUPS FOUGHT MANY WARS FOR CONTROL OF CHINA.
Great Leap Forward
WHO/WHAT: Mao ZEDONG
WHEN: MId 1900s
WHERE: CHINA
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Mao Zedong took over all private land, and in effort to jump forward economically, took a huge step BACKWARD. Because of overzealous goals, & poor distribution of resources, as many as 20 MILLION people died of starvation or malnutrition..
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
WHO?WHAT: radical reform led by Mao Zedong & the Red Guard at “THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD” ..movement intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary traces in CHINA & result in an economic recovery.
WHEN: 1965-1976
WHERE: CHINA
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: this movement was meant to renew the spirit of Chinese Revolution…Mao was worried that china was headed down the same path as the Soviet Union…purge China of old customs, old culture, old ideas, old habits..Red Guard punished any government officials who showed “bourgeois” tendencies & ruined churches, mosques, religious texts, etc…abused people accused capitalist thoughts…it was kind of the opposite of the RED SCARE in the UNited States.
