Early Influences & Communism
This was the occupation of Mao's father, who eventually became a landowner and businessman.
What is a peasant?
This Chinese leader led the reform that ended the Qing Dynasty.
Who is Sun Yat Sen?
This social change accompanied agricultural transformation as one of Mao's two long-promised reforms after 1949.
What is social transformation?
This is an example of a propaganda poster slogan used to enforce Mao's image as the people's benefactor.
What is "Chairman Mao gives us a happy life"?
China's president, who became the leading target of the Cultural Revolution after he relaxed collectivization to undo the damage of the Great Leap Forward.
Who is Liu Shaoqi?
Mao was exposed to this type of political attitude as a result of China facing external and internal pressure.
What is Anti-western?
This is the year Jiang Jieshi overcame the Warlords and established a central government in Nanjing.
What is 1928?
The catastrophic economic condition of China in 1949, when the inflation rate reached this percentage.
What is 1000%?
The CCP's Central Propaganda Department aimed to command this process to gain support for mass campaigns.
What is mass indoctrination?
This group of four radicals reached the peak of political power during the Cultural Revolution, led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing.
What is the Gang of Four?
Besides working for a Marxist thinker, Mao did this intellectual work in Peking to spread radical ideas.
What is editing radical magazines?
The Nationalist government's Nanjing Decade brought China these two economic improvements.
What are a more stable currency and industrial growth?
This 1958-1962 movement was Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy by focusing on industry and agriculture.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
"Feudal elements," "Lackeys of imperialism," and "Bureaucratic capitalism" were three of these five classifications used to identify non-people.
What are the five 'black' categories?
This leader of the People's Liberation Army was key in promoting the Cult of Mao, including ordering the compilation of the "Little Red Book."
Who is Lin Biao?
This event in Japan in 1868, which led to modernization, put pressure on China to change.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This political alliance existed between the GMD and the CCP before their civil war began in 1937.
What is the First United Front?
This size, in terms of families, was the general makeup of a commune during the Great Leap Forward.
What is 5,000 families?
Besides its military role, the PLA was used to do this to the population and reinforce political messages.
Propaganda
This 1959 meeting followed the failure of the Great Leap Forward and resulted in Mao stepping back from the Party's daily management.
What is the Lushan Conference?
This happened to Mao's role in the Party dramatically after his initial failed attempts to be a leader.
What is decreased (or failed)?
This powerful group of four entities supported Jiang Jieshi, alongside Western organizations, against the growing CCP.
What are landlords, warlords, secret societies, and criminal organizations?
This is the term for the widespread famine period that occurred from 1959-1961 as a consequence of the Great Leap Forward.
What are the Three Bitter Years?
People who were encouraged to tell on each other and were found guilty could face humiliation or be sent to these labor camps.
What are Laogai (or Labor Camps)?
This PLA veteran was twice purged during the Cultural Revolution, only to later lead China into economic reform.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?