Nationalism & Communism
These are the authors of The Communist Manifesto.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
This country influenced Mao's ideas for a communist revolution.
What is Russia / the Soviet Union?
This was the cause of the locust infection that caused the loss of crops and contributed to famine in China.
What is killing the sparrows that were keeping the locusts in check?
Deng hoped that economic reforms would prevent people from demanding this.
What are political reforms/political rights?
This party aimed to unite China under one central government and increase industry, democracy, and other Western ideals after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
What is the Nationalist Party/Guomindang?
This was the name of the Chinese Communist Party's political ideology.
What is Maoism?
As part of the Great Leap Forward, untrained peasants were expected to start industrial production using these tools.
What are backyard furnaces?
This is the name of the political and economic system promoted by Deng Xiaoping during his rule.
What is "socialism with Chinese characteristics"?
This leader served as the first president of the Republic of China.
Who is Sun Yat-Sen?
This was the political disagreement between China its main Cold War ally that opened up a window for the US to build a relationship with CHina.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split?
This is what Mao called the intellectuals and party officials who were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for their alleged anti-communist views.
What is the bourgeoisie?
1989 protests held in Tiananmen Square by students were demonstrating in favor of these reforms.
What is democracy/pro-democratic reforms?
These are three potential benefits of having a communist government.
What are income equality, gender equality, care for older/less able-bodied members of society, elimination of poverty, no unemployment, strong social ties, no competition, and others (at Ms. Tragert's discretion)--chose three.
This US president became the first president to visit China in a controversial move in 1972.
Who is Richard Nixon?
These were the "Four Olds" that the Red Guard were fighting against during the Cultural Revolution.
What are old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits?
During this movement, Deng was penalized for his criticisms of Mao and forced to labor in a tractor-repair factory.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
What is class struggle?
This propaganda campaign was launched by Mao in 1957 and encouraged open criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
This is one pro and one con of allowing all members of the agricultural collective equal access to food and resources regardless of how much they produced.
What are taking care of older, younger, and less able-bodied people (pro) and a lack of motivation among workers to produce crops (con).
This is the reason some Chinese farmers were unhappy with Deng's leadership.
What is Deng's focus on investment in urban industry over rural agriculture?