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Unit 2 - China Under Mao Flashcards

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What was the KMT? What were it’s goals? Who supported it?

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  • KMT = Kuomintang
  • Goals were democracy and capitalism
  • Supported by elites, intellectuals, and generally more fortunate people
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Who was Chiang Kai-shek?

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Leader of the KMT

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What was the CCP? What were it’s goals? Who supported it?

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  • CCP = Chinese Communist Party
  • Goals were communism, collectivization
  • Supported by peasants and farmers
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Who was Mao Zedong?

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Leader of the CCP

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What was the Second United Front?

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The KMT and CCP made a shaky alliance to defeat Japan, which falls apart quickly

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What was the Chinese Civil War? Why did it start?

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  • KMT and CCP fought for control of China (KMT seen as legit gov’t)
  • Started because KMT and CCP fought for control of Japan’s formerly occupied territory
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What was the People’s Republic of China (PRC)?

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Official Chinese gov’t created by CCP after they win the war

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What was the Republic of China (ROC)/Taiwan?

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Gov’t KMT creates in Taiwan after they flee there

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What was the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship & Alliance?

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Treaty aligning China and Russia

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Who was Josef Stalin?

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Leader of Russia

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Who was Harry Truman?

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President of the US

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What was the Korean War?

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North Korea invades South Korea and US (and other international powers) help South Korea

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What was the 38th Parallel?

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Line that divides North and South Korea

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Who was Kim Il Sung?

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Leader of North Korea

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Who was Syngman Rhee?

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Leader of South Korea

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Who was General Douglas Mac Arthur?

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General who led the US troops in the Korean War

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What was the Battle of Inchon?

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After South Korea was pushed back to Pusan, they retook Inchon and from there reclaimed the rest of their land

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What happened at the Yalu River?

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McArthur pushed the troops into North Korea (bad idea), up to the Yalu River, prompting China’s involvement

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Who was Matthew Ridgeway?

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General who replaced McArthur after Truman fired him

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What was the Korean Armistice Agreement?

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North Korea and South Korea agree to stop fighting (not a formal peace treaty)

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Who was Zhou Enlai?

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Premier (high-ranking government official) who carried out Mao’s ideas

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What was the Agrarian Reform Law? (1950) (2 answers)

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  • All land owned by gov’t
  • Took land from rich and gave to poor
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What was collectivization?

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  • People were made to work in large communities and share everything
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What were the 5 Year Plans? What did Mao think of them?

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  • Russia’s plans for reform
  • Mao thought they were too slow, wanted to do a sped-up version
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What was the Great Leap Forward?

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  • Mao’s plan to industrialize and modernize China
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What were People’s Communes?

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Collectivization of farms (the groups that farmers worked in)

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What were Backyard Industries?

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People would make poor-quality steel in their backyards

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What was the Mutual Defense Treaty? (1954)

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US promised to back ROC (KMT)

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What were the Taiwan Strait Crises? What were Quemoy and Matsu?

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  • Fights between PRC and ROC in the Taiwan Strait
  • Two islands that the PRC took over until US threatened nukes
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What was the Sino-Soviet Split? Why did it happen?

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  • China and Russia no longer support each other
  • Mao doesn’t like Russia’s new leader Khrushchev
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Who was Nikita Khruschev?

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Russia’s new leader after Stalin died

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What was the Cultural Revolution?

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Mao’s last attempt to make China communist

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Who were the Pragmatists?

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Part of the PRC who wanted a more logical instead of straight communist approach

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What was the May 16 Notification?

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When Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution’s plan and goals

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What were the Four Olds? What did Mao say to do regarding them?

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  • Cultures, customs, ideas, and traditions
  • Destroy them
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What were the May 7th Cadre Schools?

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Schools where gov’t officials were sent to learn how to be communist

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Who were the Red Guards? What was their goal? What did they end up doing?

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  • Youth groups who supported Mao
  • Their goal was to destroy the 4 Olds and the CcP’s enemies
  • They ended up beating up everyone, killing some people, and fighting each other
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What were the Little Red Books?

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Quotes by Mao, almost like the “Bible” of the Cultural Revolution

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What is a “Cult of Personality”?

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Worshipping a famous figure and basically making a cult for them

40
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What were the Years of Chaos?

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Mao loses control of the revolution, mass violence everywhere

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What were the Revolutionary Committees?

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Members from the gov’t and military came together in committees to help rebuild the gov’t

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Who was Lin Biao? What was the Lin Biao Incident?

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  • Mao’s chosen successor, but they begin to butt heads
  • He mysteriously dies in a plane crash
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How does the CCP officially end?

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Mao dies

44
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What are the impacts of the Cultural Revolution? (5 answers)

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SECDG
- Socially isolated
- Economy in ruins
- Culture has been destroyed
- Death toll in the millions
- Gov’t questioned by the people

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