The Cultural Revolution-17

Question 1

Which road did the moderates take?

Answer 1

• Wanted to introduce more incentives for people to work harder
• Wanted peasants to have larger private plots and get paid according to how hard worked
• Build industry on Russian lines
• Manage industry more efficiently

Question 2

What did Mao accuse the Moderates of doing?

Answer 2

Taking the capitalist road

Question 3

What was the Socialist Education Movement?

Answer 3

To get people back on the right road to communism.

Question 4

What was the four clean-ups campaign?

Answer 4

It was to get rid of corruption and bad management

Question 5

Who gave Mao support?

Answer 5

Minister of defense Lin Biao

Question 6

What did Lin Biao

Answer 6

Abolished all ranks in the PLA and gave each soldier a copy of the little red book.

Question 7

What was Mao now able to do with support of the PLA and Lin?

Answer 7

Launch a new super campaign against capitalists and reactionaries.

Question 8

What was the super Campaign called?

Answer 8

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 9

What were the red guards?

Answer 9

Schoolchildren and students in Beijing who formed into military groups.

Question 10

What effect did the revolution have on education?

Answer 10

• Curriculum rewritten to incorporate communist ideas

- Schools shut down for 6 months

Question 11

What were their first aims?

Answer 11

Get rid of all capitalist and bourgeois

Question 12

What was the four olds campaign?

Answer 12

Old ideas
Old culture
Old customs
Old habits

Question 13

What were some of the things they did?

Answer 13

Destroyed anything western, such as shaving western hair styles from girls or smashing jazz sets and bourgeois luxuries.

Question 14

What did they burn?

Answer 14

Libraries and bookshops

Question 15

They renamed places which had ________ names, so that. The Square of Heavenly Peace where they held their parades became East Wind Square and Beijing became _______.

Answer 15

Reactionaries

The East is Red

Question 16

Mao encouraged all his activities and said to rebel is ______.

Answer 16

Justified

Question 17

For much of 1967 the country was in a state of a virtual ______________ as Red Guards fought against reactionaries .

Answer 17

Civil war

Question 18

How many people did the Red guards kill?

Answer 18

400,000

Question 19

How did they idolize Mao ?

Answer 19

Pictures and statues were everywhere and people bowed to him when they woke up and before they slept

Question 20

Because people hated the moderates Deng and Liu what happened to them?

Answer 20

They got expelled

Question 21

What did Mao do to get rid of the millions of red guards who occupied cities?

Answer 21

Encouraged them to go down to the country to learn from the peasants.

Question 22

What did they do to restore areas where government had broken down?

Answer 22

PLA set up revolutionary committees

Question 23

What were the effects of the cultural revolution?(3)

Answer 23

• Young people had missed so much of their education that by 1981, the government said 120 Million under 45 could not read or write.
• Industrial output fell drastically
• Farming was severely disrupted