PEOPLE
LEADERS
EVENTS
Geography
Miscellaneous
100
Author of "China in Ten Words"
Who is Yu Hua?
100
Came to power as communist leader during the Long March in 1934, he died in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
Rapid attempt to modernize the country led to massive famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
100
Yellow river in Chinese.
What is the Huang He?
100
The kind of economic system China and other communist countries originally used.
What is a "command economy".
200
Current paramount leader of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?
200
Party leader disappeared from 1989 to his death in 2005 because of 'disgrace' in siding with protestors in 1989.
Who is Zhao Ziyang?
200
Began in 1966 and led to Red Guard civil war and destruction of traditional values.
What is the [Great Proletarian] Cultural Revolution?
200
River that divides north China from south China.
What is the Yangtzi?
200
Finally returned to China in 1997 after nearly 100 years as a British colony.
What is Hong Kong?
300
The name of the army military branch in China.
What is the PLA?
300
Leader of the USSR admired by the Chinese officially until 1958.
Who is Stalin?
300
The First Year of the People's Republic government.
What is 1949?
300
"North City" , the capital.
What is Beijing?
300
Where the nationalists went after they lost the civil war.
What is Taiwan?
400
Foreign minister and right-hand man for Mao, he studied in Moscow.
Who is Zhou Enlai?
400
Took over after Mao's death and began "Reform and Opening" of the economy.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
400
This event inSeptember, 1976 sent country into mourning.
What is the death of Mao?
400
Largest city in China.
What is Shanghai?
400
Usually nine men, it's now seven.
What is the Politburo? or Central Committee?
500
Helped Mao take power again in the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Lin Biao?
500
Led the Nationalists to defeat by 1949 and went into exile in Taiwan.
Who is Chiang Kai Shek?
500
International Red Cross believes as many as 700 people were killed in 1989 near Tiananmen Square.
What is the June 4th massacres in Beijing?
500
Central crossroad in China where revolution of 1911 began.
What is Wuhan?
500
Cambodian Communist friend of Mao in 1960s and 70s.
Who is Prince Sihanouk?
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