Reunification Campaigns Flashcards
What were Reunification Campaigns?
They were campaigns by the PLA to seize the peripheral regions of China.
What religion did the CCP want to exterminate in Tibet?
Buddhism
What alternative leadership did the CCP want to exterminate in Tibet?
The Dalai Lama
How many Tibetans resisted the invasion?
60,000
What was the capital of Tibet and when was it taken by the PLA?
The capital of Lhasa was taken in November 1950.
What were the representatives of the Dalai Lama forced to sign?
A 17-point ‘Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet’, which set out the terms of merging Tibet with the PRC.
What did the Tibet Agreement wipe out?
All traces of Tibetan identity (Tibetan history and language from schools).
What was the population of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang?
4 million
What tactics did the CCP use to take control of Xinjiang?
Military force and negotiations, inviting the nationalist leaders to the CPPCC in 1949?
What happened to the Xinjiang nationalist leaders?
They all died in a plane crash.
By what date had the PLA cleared all resistance by in Xinjiang?
March 1950
In Xinjiang, what did the government sponsor?
An in-migration of Han Chinese settlers that were sent to populate Xinjiang and to develop mining and industry.
What did the PLA organise these Xinjiang settlers into?
A coordinated militia. the ‘production and construction’ corps.
In Guangdong there was believed to be…
a strong anti-communist sentiment that remained strong in that area.
How many people were estimated to have been executed during the ‘Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries’?
28,000
