Mao Flashcards
When is the PRC proclaimed
1949
How does Mao Consolidate power?
He launches the 1951 3 antis campaign
This is followed by the 1952 5 antis campaign
Factions of the CCP are banded in 1954
What are Mao’s common tactics to ensure loyalty?
Self struggle meetings and self confessions. Getting party members to confess to their crimes and then banishing or excecuting them
Who is purged or removed in the first few years?
Gao, a civil war ally is imprisoned
99% of shanghai buisnessmen are found guilty of being against the party. 500 will be excuted
many government and party employees were purged during confessions
What is Mao’s initial economic policy?
Mao implements national capitalism, taking control of heavy industries and the banking system
All businesses would be nationalized in 1955
A new currency was implemented
Infrastructure and communications were repaired and expanded
What was the Great leap forward?
Began 1958
farming was collectivised with 750 million put into 25,000 communes
peasents also had to produce industrial goods
What was the great leap forward’s consequence?
A manmade famine started that would kill between 20 and 45 million people
punishment, beatings and starvation was common for the smallest offenses, this would cause 2-3 million deaths
cannibalism was commonplace
What is the 100 flowers campaign
How are Sino-Soviet relations
Kruschev is dencounced as a revisionist traitor. This forments the sino soviet split
Who are the red guards?
