test 19 pt. 1

Question 1

What was the Tiananmen square about?

Answer 1

Huge protests pro-democracy, which failed, government forbids talking about it

Question 2

What is the status of communism in China today?

Answer 2

China is a market economy but the Chinese Communist party is still in power. very controversial.

Question 3

Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong?

Answer 3

-Taiwan- disputed since 1949, still claimed by China
- Tibet- conquered since 1950
- Hong Kong- gave back to China, protest made China take away freedoms again

Question 4

What sort of place was communist China?

Answer 4

like USSR and Stalin, push for industrialization, huge communes

Mao= cult of personality. Mao suits= clothes

Question 5

Great leap forward?

Answer 5

Chinas industrialization strategy. failed horribly.

Question 6

What was the cultural revolution?

Answer 6

-campaign to rid any anit-communism.
-little red books=education
-red guard= young revolution
-farms for re-education
-mao died, endding it

Question 7

Why wasn’t the USSR and China closer allies?

Answer 7

-leaders ego
-ideological different