Problems communists faced in 1949

Question 1

Hyperinflation

Answer 1

1000% in 1949, excessive printing of money and people reverted to bartering

Question 2

How much did industrial production fall since 1937

Answer 2

75%

Question 3

1940 with 100 yuan you could buy a pig, what could you buy in 1949

Answer 3

an egg

Question 4

Factory output was how much below level of 1937

Answer 4

44%

Question 5

How many bandits

Answer 5

1 million

Question 6

What did bandits do

Answer 6

Clogged transport, crammed in unsanitary cities

Question 7

How much of railway network destroyed

Answer 7

half of it

Question 8

Hankou

Answer 8

Was all rubble after war

Question 9

How many deaths in Yangtze River flood

Answer 9

3 million deaths

Question 10

Hainan port

Answer 10

Destroyed by Americans

Question 11

Population that were peasants

Answer 11

80%

Question 12

How many deaths in Henan as a result of food shortages

Answer 12

up to 3 million deaths

Question 13

Food production was how much below level of 1937

Answer 13

30%

Question 14

What happened in Shanghai in 1950

Answer 14

1000 died in bombing

Question 15

What did Chang-Kai Shek do

Answer 15

Attacked major coastal cities