LEADERS & DECISIONS
This is the one thing Jiang Jieshi's followers had in common that Mao's followers did not
hey were bankers and businesspeople — not peasants
Mao referred to this group as the force of "raging winds and driving rain" — who was he talking about and what did he mean?
The peasants
Sun Yixian said China's 400 million people were like this — meaning divided and powerless without national unity
A heap of loose sand
What directly caused 3,000 students to gather in Beijing on May 4, 1919?
The Treaty of Versailles
This is how many years the Qing dynasty ruled China before being overthrown
For 268 years.
Sun Yixian's Three Principles were nationalism, people's livelihood, and this — explain what it meant
Democracy — the right of people to choose their own leaders
After the Shanghai Massacre, this country refused to recognise Jiang's new government while Britain and the US did
The Soviet Union
China joined WWI on this side, hoping to recover lost territories — but was betrayed at Versailles
The Allies
The Shanghai Massacre of 1927 had one major long-term consequence — name it
Made communism stronger
The United States gave this much money in aid to the Nationalists — yet they still lost the civil war
Nearly $2 billion
This is the key difference between Mao's brand of communism and Lenin's
Lenin built revolution around city workers — Mao built it around rural peasants
This is the specific year the People's Republic of China was proclaimed and where Jiang Jieshi fled to
1949 — Taiwan
The May Fourth Movement shifted China's political direction away from this ideology toward Soviet communism
Western democracy
What caused the Long March to happen — and what was its unintended consequence for the Communist Party?
Jiang's 700,000 troops surrounded the Communists forcing retreat — the unintended consequence was it became a powerful symbol that helped Mao recruit new followers
Only this fraction of Communist soldiers survived the Long March — out of 100,000 who began Answer
7,000–8,000 survivors
Jiang Jieshi became president in 1928 and was recognised by two major world powers — but one refused. Name all three and explain why the Soviet Union refused.
Britain and the United States recognised Jiang — the Soviet Union refused because of the Shanghai Massacre where Jiang killed Communist leaders and workers
Mao's Agrarian Reform Law of 1950 did two things — seized land from landlords and did this
Killed more than one million landlords who resisted
hen Japan invaded China in 1937, something unexpected happened between the Nationalists and Communists. What changed and why?
They temporarily stopped fighting each other and united against Japan — because Japan was a greater immediate threat than each other.
The Soviet Union gave China a treaty of friendship in 1950 — but by the late 1950s the relationship had completely fallen apart. What caused the split?
Both countries wanted to lead the worldwide Communist movement and had disputes over their long shared border — cooperation faded and China was left without Soviet support
By 1958, this many communes had been created under the Great Leap Forward — covering an average of 15,000 acres each
26,000 communes
After the Great Leap Forward failed, Mao reduced his role — but then came back with the Cultural Revolution. What specifically triggered his return?
New economic policies were moving away from strict communism — Mao feared the revolution was being weakened
The Cultural Revolution was eventually shut down by this
The army was ordered in to put down the Red Guards
This general received power from Sun Yixian but quickly betrayed democratic ideals and sparked civil revolts across China
Yuan Shikai
Jiang Jieshi's government became increasingly corrupt after 1928. Explain exactly how this corruption directly helped Mao win the civil war.
Peasants felt Jiang did nothing to improve their lives — thousands of Nationalist soldiers deserted to the Communists and China's collapsing economy turned the people against Jiang
This is the exact number of people who died as a result of the Great Leap Forward famine — making it one of the deadliest man-made disasters in history.
20 million people