Mao

Question 0

When does Mao become the leader of the CCP?

Answer 0

1934, after the long march

Question 1

When was the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) established?

Answer 1

1921

Question 2

When do the Chinese fight the Japanese?

Answer 2

The nationalists and communists unite to fight the Japanese in 1937

Question 3

When does the civil war start?

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

When does the civil war end and Mao take control?

Answer 4

In 1949 Mao proclaims victory of the communists and the foundation if the People’s Republic of China

Question 5

When was Mao born?

Answer 5

1893 in to a land owning family

Question 6

What suggests Mao would be a good leader?

Answer 6

Confidence
Determined
Devoted
Military and Political skill

Question 7

What suggests Mao would be unsuccessful?

Answer 7

Better as a revolutionary than a leader
He creates fear making people respect him less
The fear he causes makes people lie to him - making him less knowledgeable and reducing his power

Question 8

What are three main structures of the government?

Answer 8

The State Bureacracy
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

Question 9

What is a Party Cadre?

Answer 9

Those who had been fully indoctrinated into Party Ideology and Communist methods were given leading roles at local level admin and political education

Question 10

What was the level of membership of the CCP like?

Answer 10

December 1950 5.8 million out of 500 million population

Exclusive and only the most dedicated were allowed, in order to create an Elite Vanguard Party

Question 11

How many members are there in the politburo

Answer 11

14

Question 12

What did Mao want for china?

Answer 12

He wanted self reliance and restoration of Chinese power following humiliation from the west and japan
He didn’t want to rely on the already communist USSR

Question 13

What was Mao’s theory of continuing revolution?

Answer 13

Mao believed that revolution was only just beginning when the CCP took power, due to the wide distribution of wealth

Question 14

What did Mao believe about classes?

Answer 14

He thought the revolution was a class struggle and so did not trust officials who he believed would abuse power

Question 15

Would did Mao say about the people of China?

Answer 15

He saw them as the key to success, they should keep check on the government to prevent it from dictatorship
Believed in mass mobilisation and thought that the people united could achieve anything

Question 16

When did the war with more begin?

Answer 16

1950

Question 17

What % of the governments budget was spent on the PLA?

Answer 17

41%

Question 18

How many new conscripts a year were joining the PLA?

Answer 18

800,000

Question 19

How big was the PLA after the cuts?

Answer 19

In 1953 there was 3.5 million men

Question 20

How big was the PLA before cuts?

Answer 20

5,000,000 in 1950

Question 21

Why was the PLA important

Answer 21

It had millions of young men passing through, who after 3 years would be trained in warfare and indoctrinated in communist ideology

Question 22

When was the Korean War?

Answer 22

1950-53

Question 23

What was Laogai?

Answer 23

They were labour camps used by Mao through terror and repression to remove anti communist threats

Question 24

How did Mao use terror and repression to increase control?

Answer 24

He set up labour camps and used propaganda and stricter policing on everyone to make people inform on their peers of counter revolutionary ideas

Question 25

What was the resist America and Aid Korea campaign?

Answer 25

Foreigners and Americans in particular were presented as the enemies of the PRC Christian churches were forcibly closed and foreigners in China were often accuse of being spies and arrested All western presence was eradicated and mass rallies put the population into a frenzy of suspicion

Question 26

What was the Suppression of Counter-revolutionaries campaign?

Answer 26

October 1950 focused on GMD regime as well as bandits and religious members Large numbers denounced, investigate and punished Guangdong 56,000 bandits 89,000 criminals resulting in 30,000 executions Many in public to scare others

Question 27

What was the Three-Antis campaign?

Answer 27

Manchuria late 1951 Corruption, waste and obstructionist Bureaucracy Managers, state officials party members Meetings where people were denounced and ended in humiliation of the guilty Succeeded to root out many of the corrupt practices

Question 28

What was the Five-Antis Campaign?

Answer 28

January 1952 Against the bourgeoisie Targeted bribery, tax evasion, the theft of state property, cheating on government contracts and economic espionage Group criticism sessions organised for employers to confess or denounce

Question 29

What were the results of the Five-Antis?

Answer 29

3,000 meetings in February 1953 in Shanghai alone The guilty faced enormous fines, the confiscation of property and being sent to labour camps. No executions featured 2-3 million suicides rather than humiliation