Defeating the CCP's Opponents

Question 1

What was the Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries?

Answer 1

A campaign aimed at preventing nationalist sympathisers and spies from undermining the communist regime.

Question 2

When was the Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries launched?

Answer 2

March 1950

Question 3

What individuals specifically did the Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries target?

Answer 3

Those who had previously worked for the GMD regime.

Question 4

What happened to Western Businessmen?

Answer 4

They had their property confiscated and were forced to leave the country.

Question 5

What Ministry ran the Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries?

Answer 5

The Ministry of Public Security

Question 6

What was Self-Registration?

Answer 6

When all those who held previous positions in the GMD government were to register and in order to help those who made ‘political mistakes’ to ‘start a new life’.

Question 7

For those who Self-Registered, what did they have to submit?

Answer 7

An autobiography and list of their colleagues and friends.

Question 8

What happened to those who self-registered?

Answer 8

They and their colleagues were identified and arrested..

Question 9

What were Public Struggle Meetings?

Answer 9

Where supposed ‘counter-revolutionaries’ were forced to confess their guilt in front of large crowds that decided their fates.

Question 10

What did the People’s Daily newspaper publish?

Answer 10

Long lists of political criminals alongside gruesome details of their punishment.

Question 11

What was the number of Counter-Revolutionary deaths during the first half of 1951?

Answer 11

800,000

Question 12

What was the aim of the Three Antis Campaign?

Answer 12

To rid the Party of corruption, waste and obstructionist bureaucracy in government.

Question 13

What did Mao call the Three Antis Campaign?

Answer 13

A ‘big political clean up throughout the Party’.

Question 14

When was the Three Antis Campaign?

Answer 14

August 1951 - July 1952

Question 15

What did the Five Antis Campaign do?

Answer 15

Used mass campaigns to remove possible campaigns and seize control over economic assets.

Question 16

When was the Five Antis Campaign?

Answer 16

February 1952 - March 1952

Question 17

What was the Five Antis dedicated to ending?

Answer 17

What was known as ‘The Five Poisons’.

Question 18

What were ‘The Five Poisons’?

Answer 18

	Bribery
	Tax Evasion
	Theft of state property 
	Cheating on government contracts 
	The stealing of state information

Question 19

Give an example of a form of pressure used on Businessmen

Answer 19

Tell a businessman’s wife and children that he was guilty and the only way out was to confess. Fearing that he would be executed, they pleaded him to confess.

Question 20

What were ‘Denunciation Boxes’

Answer 20

These bright-red boxes were found on every street corner and allowed women and children to denounce their husbands and fathers to avoid implication.