China AOS2 Flashcards
(100 cards)
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When was the marriage law?
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1st May 1950
2
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When did Fanshen introduced?
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28th June 1950
3
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When was Chinese intervention in Korean war?
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8th October 1950
4
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When was the thought reform?
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September 1951
5
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When was Sanfan and Wufan?
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Sanfan: 7th December 1951 Wufan: 1st February 1952
6
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When was first 5 year plan?
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1st January 1953-1957
7
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When was Gao Gang affair?
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1953-54
8
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When was high tide of collectivisation started?
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30 July 1955
9
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When did Khrushchev donounce Stalin?
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February 1956
10
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When was 100 flowers campaign?
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27th February 1957
11
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When was anti-rightist campaign?
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8th June 1957
12
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When was Great Leap forward officially launched?
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5-28th May 1958
13
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When was the first Lushan Plenum?
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14th July-16th August 1959
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When was the 3 bad years?
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1959-1961
15
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When was the 7000 cadres conference?
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January 1962
16
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When did socialist education movement start?
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24-27th September 1962
17
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When did Little Red Book first published?
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May 1964
18
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When was the May 16th Circular?
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16th May 1966
19
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When was Mao’s good swim?
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16th July 1966
20
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When was the January Storm start?
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14th January 1967
21
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When was Liu Shaoqi expelled from the Party?
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31st October 1968
22
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When was the 9th Party Congress?
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1-24th April 1969
23
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When did the Up the Mountain Down the Countryside campaign take place?
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1968-72
24
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When was the Second Lushan Plenum?
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23rd August 1970
25
When was Project 571?
August-September 1971
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What did marriage law purpose?
Gave women the same legal rights as men.
Banned customs such as arranged marriages, child marriages, polygamy, and foot binding.
Permitted women to choose their own husbands or divorce abusive husbands. Guaranteed equal pay and maternity benefits.
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What were the consequences of the Korean War?
American sanctioned on Chinese trade. 900,000 Chinese soldiers died. However, Chinese people believed they stood up against the west.
28
What are the targets of Sanfan and Wufan?
Sanfan: Corruption, Waste, Bureaucraticism
29
What were achievements of the first five year plan?
Raw Iron, Steel and Electricity production increase by 3 times, coal and cement production increased by 2 times
30
Why did Mao launched the 100 flowers campaign?
He believed to let the intellectuals speak instead of launching petitions and that he believed that these criticism would help expose corruption.
31
Why did Mao decide to halt the 100 flowers campaign?
Intellectuals criticised the CCP
32
What were People's communes in the Great Leap Forward?
People's communes were collectivised group which aimed form a large agricultural community. Including farming together, communal kitchen and creches exc. It even have its own milita.
33
What were some of the mass campaigns in the Great Leap forward?
Backyard Steel furnaces, Lysenkoism, 4 pests campaign
34
What happened in the First Lushan Plenum?
Peng Dehuai criticised Mao and urge him to stop the GLF. Mao marginalised him and stripped him off minister of defence duty.
35
What were some triggers of the 3 bad years famine?
Lysenkoism, false surplus reported led to more grain handed in. Four pest campaign and backyard steel furnaces.
36
What were some of Liu Shaoqi's reform in recovering from the Great Leap Forward?
Three privates and one guarantee:
Three privates: Farm their small plots, produce handicrafts, and sell their products at free markets.
One guarantee: It was essential to meet the government production quotas.
37
What did Mao want to achieve out of Socialist Education movement and what were Liu Shaoqi's belief of it?
Mao wanted to purge the corrupt cadres as well as purging the influence of capitalism. Liu Shaoqi was against Mao's idea.
38
What group did the Little Red Book published to when it first got published?
Students and PLA.
39
What was learn from Lei Feng camapign?
To learn from a young PLA soldier like Lei Feng, be virtuous like him, for instance, worship chairman Mao like him.
40
What was Hai Rui dismissed from office play about? And why did Mao want to ban it?
It was about a bureaucrat named Hai Rui who was dismissed due to speaking against the Emperor. However, Mao thought it was an allegory of him dismissing Peng Dehuai.
41
What was the February Outline report about?
The Hai Rui Dismissed from office is a literacy debate not a political issue.
42
Who were the main capitalist roaders in the Party according to Mao?
Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi
43
What did Mao wished to achieve in the Great Swim?
Strengthen his cult of personality.
44
How did Mao strengthen his cult of personality in the Red Guard rallies?
He encouraged the red guards to attack the counter revolution he perceived and interacted with them in their rally.
45
What were the January Storm and Shanghai people's commune?
The four man gang attempting to overthrow the Shanghai government and established their own revolutionary government in Shanghai as Shanghai People's Commune.
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What were revolutionary model opera plays?
Plays that aim to highlight the values of the proletariat instead of focusing on Emperors.
47
How did the 4 old campaign impacted China?
4 old campaign destroyed a lot of historical sites of China. It denounced confucious.
48
What was the aim of Up the Mountains, Down the Countryside? What were the consequences?
To let the red guards be re-educated by the masses down in the countryside.
49
Why did Mao lose favour of Lin Biao?
Lin Biao wanted him to take power of president in the Second Lushan Plenum, Mao do not want that because he fear he would become targetted. The project 571 which involves Lin Biao's son attempting to assassinate Mao.
50
What did the Ping Pong diplomacy aimed to achieve?
Reconciliation between America and China.
51
What were the 4 revolutionary classes?
Peasants, proletariat (Workers), petite bourgeoisie (lower-middle classes, often small business owners), national capitalists (managerial middle class, loyal industrialists).
52
450,000 businesses investigated as a part of wufan, ______ found guilty and issued with fines.
340,000
53
An estimated __________ landlords were executed a result of land reform campaigns.
2-5 million
54
____ of China’s farmland redistributed from landlords to peasantry.
47%
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By how much did steel, raw iron and electricity production boosted in the first 5 year plan?
3 times
56
What was the agricultural increase in first 5 year plan?
2-3% compared to annual 2.2% increase of population
57
In the high tide of collectivisation, ______ of the peasants had joined cooperatives by the end of December 1956.
97%
58
_________ “rightists” send to labor camps for re-education during the anti-rightist campaign.
400,000
59
What were the 4 pests?
Rats, flies, mosquitos, sparrows
60
What were elements of Lysenkoism?
Close planting, as it is believed to led to better yields, as seedlings of same plant type would not compete. Result: Close planting of rice limited the amount of wind pass through crops caused poor quality and lower yields.
Deep ploughing, believed to bring previously untouched fertile soul to the surface and encourage larger root systems. Result: Caused clay and sand brought up from the depths instead of fertile soul and decreased fertility.
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9% farmland decrease in the amount of farmland sown with crops due to the building of _______ furnaces of backyard steel furnaces.
_______ people worked in the furnaces.
750,000 furnaces. 100 million people
62
How much people died in the 3 bad years?
around 30 million
63
Actual harvest in 1959 was ___ million tons but was reported as 500 million tons.
170 million tons
64
What were the 3 private and 1 guarantee in the 7000 cadres conference?
Three privates and one guarantee:
Three privates: Farm their small plots, produce handicrafts, and sell their products at free markets.
One guarantee: It was essential to meet the government production quotas.
65
__________ copies of the Little Red Book printed and distributed by the end of 1966.
1 billion
66
How many people died in the Cultural Revolution?
20 million
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What was the 4 olds in the 4 old campaign?
Old ideas, culture, habits, customs
68
How many Red Guards were sent down to countryside in the down to countryside campaign?
12 million
69
During the Cultural Revolution, over _________ copies of Mao’s writing were printed.
40 billion
70
What were some communist slogans during the Cultural Revolution?
"Fathers is close, mother is close, but not as close as chairman Mao."
Seize power
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“Democracy is practiced within the ranks of people… The right to vote belongs only to the people and not to the reactionaries.” Who stated this quote?
Chairman Mao
72
“The Soviet Road is the road all humanity will eventually take.” Who said this quote?
Liu Shaoqi
73
“Let a hundred flowers bloom! Let a hundred school of thoughts contend!” What was Mao Zedong commenting on?
100 flowers campaign
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“The purpose was to let …poisonous weed sprout and grow in profusion so that the people…would take action to wipe them out.” What decision is this quote justifying?
Why he ended 100 flowers campaign and started anti-rightist campaign.
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“Work like this, with all these projects, half of China may well have to die. " What is this commenting on?
Mismanagement of the GLF.
76
“Not only have there been no ______ ______ ________, there has been a great deal of falling backwards.”-Liu Shaoqi.
Great Leap Forward
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“Never forget_____ _______ . From now on we must talk about this every year, every month, every day.”-Mao Zedong.
Class Struggle
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“Follow the example set by Comrade ____ _______ and be Chairman Mao’s good fighters.”-Lin Biao.
Lei Feng
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“Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence,___________________’”-Mao Zedong
It is right to rebel
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“I graduated from the __________________.”-Mao Zedong
University of outlaws
81
“Had Mao died in ______, his achievement would have been immortal…But he died in 1976. Alas, what can one say.”-Chen Yun.
1956
82
“The more ______, the more revolutionary.”-Jiang Qing
brutal
83
“Have no fear of ______. The more ______ you dish up the better.”-Mao Zedong on January storm.
chaos
84
“There is no such thing as ____________ either in the past or present…if there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”-Liu Shaoqi.
A perfect leader
85
He is paranoid and a sadist.”-Lin Tiger. Who is Lin Tiger commenting on?
Chaiman Mao
86
“In a pact ______ _____ ______ between the party and the poor.”-Frank Dikotter on Fanshen
Sealed in blood
87
“Mao wanted moderate criticism of the details, rather than the ________ ____ _____in New China.”-Rana Mitter.
Fundementals of life
88
“Few guess Mao set a trap, Mao was planning to prosecute the educated en masse.”Who said this quote?
Jung Chang and Jon haliday
89
“It was a product of _______ _____, not an economic plan… relied mainly on… the ‘revolutionary spirit’ of the masses”- Maurice Meisner.
Utopian vision
90
“Mao knowingly starved and worked tens of millions to death.” Which event is Jung Chang and Jon haliday commenting on?
3 bad years
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“An all-time first-class ______ _____ ______...The GLF had played itself out as a Mao made catastrophe.”-John King Fairbank
man mad famine
92
“Over a period of more than a quarter-century, he served as constructive and stabilizing force within the party and the regime.”- Who is Lowell dittmer commenting on?
Liu Shaoqi
93
“Mao stared clearing for the ground for a big purge from the moment the famine abated and to prepare that he steadily fueled his personality cult.”Who said this quote?
Jung Chang and Jon haliday
94
“The Cultural Revolution…was Mao’s last attempt to _____ a revolution that he believed was dying.”-Maurice Meisner.
reivive
95
“Mao was seeking _________ by identifying himself with symbols that would live on after him.”-Jonathan Fenby.
immportality
96
“The learning from PLA campaign characterized members of the military as virtuous heroes, their political consciousness was model all Chinese should emulate." Stuart Schram. Which event is he commenting on?
Emulation camapaign
97
“The state had become the ultimate landlord.”-John King Fairbank. Which campaign is he commenting on?
Great Leap Forward
98
“With each repetition, their lies became more and more fanatic, a ghostly parody of Chinese whispers.”- Jasper Backer. Which event is he commening on?
Corruption and false reporting in the Great Leap Forward
99
“Mao welcomed the criticism as good for the party, but party members got frightened… facing a rebellion among the government officials, he halted the campaign.” Who said this quote?
Lee Faigon
100
“Mao’s early attempt of modernizing the Chinese economy carries a stamp of Soviet influence.”-Michael Lynch. Which event is he commenting on?
First 5 year plan
