Propaganda
What was the name of the book of Mao's thoughts and sayings widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution?
The Little Red Book
Mao encouraged the building of these wherever one could in order to produce steel
Backyard Furnaces
Mao was forced to take a backseat role in power for a couple years due to what policy of his?
Great Leap Forward
According to Marxist theory what is the name of the owner class in a capitalist society?
Bourgeoisie
At the founding of the PRC this country was immediately considered enemy #1
The United States
Because of propaganda and consolidation of power, Mao could best described as having acquired ___-like status
god-like
The Great Leap Forward resulted in what disaster?
The Great Chinese Famine
Give two examples of types of people often persecuted under the CCP
capitalists, landlords, dissidents, opposition, ethnic minorities
What group of people did Mao believe were the key to the revolution?
Rural masses
This US president was the first to visit socialist China?
Richard Nixon
How were landlords and capitalists publicly humiliated under Mao's Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries?
Speak Bitterness Meetings
Under Mao agricultural land was collectivized and reorganized into ____ ?
What were the reeducation camps in China called?
Laogai
Under socialism ______ ownership of property was prohibited
private
Chinese troops directly engaged US troops in this war
Korean War
Questions about Mao's health began to rise later in his rule, what specific stunt did he pull off to try to dissuade these rumors?
Swim across the Yangtze
Third Front
the youth
The Leninist-Maoist theory that the revolution and implementation of socialism needed to be leaded by an organized party
Vanguardism
Joseph Stalin
What did Deng Xiaoping say about the policies of Mao in order to preserve his reputation while also denouncing the bad actions?
70% right, 30%wrong
What was the purpose of the various "Five Year Plans" implemented under Mao?
To plan and develop the agrarian economy into a modern industrial one
The Cultural Revolution sought to eliminate the "four olds", what were the four olds?
Customs, traditions, ideas, and habits
"Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" reflected what policy shift in the CCP after Mao?
Re-introducing the free market into China to a certain extent
The PRC replaced Taiwan (RoC) on this important UN body
Security Council