Modern Asia Test Questions

Question 1

Why were communists successful in China

Answer 1

• peasant support of communists
• women … belief that “women hold up half the sky”
• better military leadership
• corruption of nationalist government
• foreign denomination

Question 2

How was China a mix of capitalism and communism?

Answer 2

• Taiwan was capitalist
• China was communist
• both countries worked side by side with China controlling the government in Taiwan through the Republic of China (ROC)
• communist government
• capitalist economy

Question 3

What were Mao Zedong’s plans/goals?

Answer 3

• Cultural Revolution
• Great Leap Forward
• wanted to make China strong, powerful, modernized, communist
• Customs, thoughts, habits, and cultures were replaced with socialist ideas

Question 4

How is modern day Japan a representation of isolation?

Answer 4

• isolation once held back China and caused them to eventually fail (isolated people, trade, technology, advancements, weapons)
• Japan modernized causing a rethinking of isolationism
  - led to revolt against Shogun and restoration of the emperor (Meiji Restoration)
• Set up a western style government with the emperor and a Diet (parliament)

Question 5

China A vs. China B

Answer 5

• mass migration
• still effects China to this day, affected cultural revolution
  CHINA A
  
  • more developed
  • wealthier
  • luxury based
    CHINA B
  • poor
  • lower class
  • people worked in factories 9-6, 6 days a week
  • harsh working/living conditions
  • held up economy

Question 6

Cultural Revolution

Answer 6

• social political movement in People’s Republic of China (PRC)
• created by Mao Zedong in 1966-1976
• purpose to get rid of “old culture” in China
• Customs, thoughts, habits, and cultures were replaced with socialist ideas
• red guards

Question 7

Four Modernizations

Answer 7

• agriculture
• science/technology
• national defense in China
• industry
• new modernization policies of Deng Xiaoping

Question 8

Kim Jong-un

Answer 8

• current leader of North Korea since 2011
• If you aren’t loyal to him, you could be killed as well as your family

Question 9

Great Leap Forward

Answer 9

• campaign created by Chinese Communists 1950-1962
• purpose: organize population to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems
• launched by Mao Zedong (to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society)

Question 10

MacArthur Constitution

Answer 10

• constitutional monarchy was established
• constitution in 1946 protected the rights of the people to free thought, press, and assembly
• people elected representatives to the Diet (parliament)
• Social reforms such as allowing everyone to get an education and women receiving legal equality were also implemented

Question 11

Mao Zedong

Answer 11

• leader of the communists in China
• declared People’s Republic of China
• established the Great Leap Forward
• established the Cultural Revolution