Years of Great Change-13

Question 1

What affect did the marriage have on women? What did make it illegal?(4)

Answer 1

• Arranged Marriages
• Marriage of Children
• Killing of unwanted babies
• Bigamy

Question 2

What was fixed?(4)

Answer 2

• Minimum age for marriage was fixed at 20 for men and 18 for women
• Husbands and wives owned property jointly
• Divorce by mutual consent was introduced
• Expectant mothers were given benefit of full wages for two months after the birth of the child

Question 3

What speeded up the process of land reform?

Answer 3

Agrarian Land Reform

Question 4

What was the Agrarian reform law?

Answer 4

Communist oath members went into in the countryside to teach poor peasants to work out the social class of everyone in their community. The aim to decide whether people were poor,rich or middle class. Poor peasants then held mass meetings where they spoke bitterness of their poverty and denounce their landlords. One the social classes had been decided, Land was was taken from people who had surplus and to those who had none.

Question 5

Between 1950 and 1952 some ____ Million Hectares Of was taken away from landlords and ‘rich’ peasants and to ____ Million poor peasants.

Answer 5

47

300

Question 6

How did the speak bitterness meeting become very bitter?

Answer 6

Land reform became violent. Meeting ended with the execution of landlords who had been cruel to their tenant.

Question 7

Estimate of how many landlords were killed?

Answer 7

2-4 Million

Question 8

Why were peasants disappointed when they received their land?

Answer 8

• No equipment to to cultivate it

- No money to buy equipment

Question 9

Many peasants worked in __________ Of around 10 households which worked together on the land, sharing their _______ and _______.

Answer 9

Mutual Aid Teams
Animals
Equipment

Question 10

What did the new government do to overcome China’s grave economic problems?🤘

Answer 10

Railway and 1/3 of heavy industry was made into state property. Profits went to state treasury and paid 2/3 of its yearly income.

Question 11

A People’s Bank was opened in 1951 to replace the ______ banks. It had control of all financial ______ and issue of money. ________ did not exist entirely by the mid-1950’s.

Answer 11

Private
Transactions
Inflation

Question 12

What did farmers have to do to overcome the threat of food shortage?

Answer 12

• Threat Of food shortage

- Farmers had to sell 15 to 20 percent of their grain to the government at a fixed low price.

Question 13

What tax did farmers have to pay?

Answer 13

Agricultural tax

Question 14

Where did the agricultural tax go?

Answer 14

Collected by party members to help poor peasants in order to put the Agrarian Reform Law.

Question 15

During 1950 and 1951 the Party organized mass mass rallies at which public enemies were _______.

Answer 15

Tried

Question 16

How many reactionaries were executed?

Answer 16

Around a million

Question 17

What was thought Reform?

Answer 17

The movement for the study of Mao’s thoughts and involved close study of his writings combined with public self-criticism at Party meetings .

Question 18

What campaign drew people’s attention on certain problems?

Answer 18

Three Antis Campaign

Question 19

What was 3 antis campaign?

Answer 19

It was a campaign against corruption,waste and too much ‘red tape’.

Question 20

What did the 5 Antis Campaign aim to get rid of?(5)

Answer 20

Bribery 
Tax Evasion 
Fraud 
Theft of government 
Spying

Question 21

What happened to people who guilty of any offenses (5 antis Campaign)?

Answer 21

Sent to labour camps to be re-educated with thought Reform

Question 22

How did they aim to strengthen the Party?

Answer 22

Every sector of the population were encouraged to join party run groups.

Question 23

What was the pro for the party running these organizations?

Answer 23

Easily able to use members for its own purposes

Question 24

What was the Swat the Fly Campaign?

Answer 24

People were encouraged to kill 10 flies a day. With a population of 600 million, trillions of them would be killed and virtually extinct in some parts of China.