Communism Origins
Clue: This war exposed China’s weakness and forced it to accept unequal treaties with foreign powers.
Answer: What were the Opium Wars?
Clue: This group supported Mao and helped the Communists gain power in rural areas.
Answer: Who were peasants?/Poor?
Clue: This policy attempted to rapidly industrialize China using communes and backyard furnaces.
Answer: What was the Great Leap Forward?
Clue: This type of government did Mao lead, with strict control over people’s lives?
Answer: What is a totalitarian state?
Clue: Deng Xiaoping introduced this type of economy combining socialism with market elements.
Answer: What is a socialist market economy?
Clue: These agreements gave foreign nations control over parts of China and hurt Chinese sovereignty.
Answer: What were unequal treaties (such as the Treaty of Nanjing)?
Clue: This event helped Mao gain leadership after a long retreat across China.
Answer: What was the Long March?
Clue: These were large collective farms where peasants lived and worked together.
Answer: What were communes?
Clue: Mao used propaganda and this book of his ideas to influence citizens.
Answer: What is the Little Red Book?
Clue: Deng ended this Mao-era farming system to increase productivity.
Answer: What were communes?
Clue: This rebellion showed Chinese anger toward foreign influence but was ultimately crushed.
Answer: What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Clue: This foreign invasion weakened the Nationalists and helped the Communists gain support.
Answer: What was the Japanese invasion of China (1937)?
Clue: This was a major result of the Great Leap Forward, causing millions of deaths by starvation
Answer: What was famine?
Clue: Mao maintained power by controlling culture, education, and this form of communication.
Answer: What is media (or propaganda)?
Clue: Deng increased trade with these regions to modernize China.
Answer: What are Western countries (or foreign nations)?
Clue: This war showed China’s weakness when it lost to a rapidly industrializing Asian neighbor.
Answer: What was the First Sino-Japanese War?
Clue: In 1949, Mao declared the creation of this new communist nation.
Answer: What is the People’s Republic of China?
Clue: This movement aimed to reassert Mao’s control and remove opposition within China.
Answer: What was the Cultural Revolution?
Clue: Mao targeted this group of people to eliminate opposition within the Communist Party.
Answer: Who were political opponents (or party officials/intellectuals)?
Clue: These four areas were targeted for improvement under Deng’s reforms.
Answer: What are the Four Modernizations (agriculture, industry, military, science/technology)?
Clue: This long conflict between the Nationalists and Communists lasted from 1912 to 1949.
Answer: What was the Chinese Civil War?
Clue: This tactic involved redistributing land from landlords to peasants to gain support.
Answer: What was land reform?
Clue: These young followers of Mao attacked traditional culture and political enemies.
Answer: Who were the Red Guards?
Clue: During the Cultural Revolution, people were publicly humiliated in these events.
Answer: What are struggle sessions?
Clue: Deng allowed farmers to do this with extra crops to increase motivation.
Answer: What is sell surplus crops?