Macartney's Mission
What was the goal of George Macartney's Mission (1793)?
Improve trade between Great Britain and China
Caused by the British trade of Opium in China
The Civil War was fought between which two groups?
Kuomintang/ Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Mao took land from which group?
The landlords
When Deng was leader, did the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) increase, decrease, or stay the same?
Who did Macartney meet with?
The Qianlong Emperor/ Qing Emperor
How did Britain respond when China tried to end opium imports?
Britain responded with military force.
Who were the leaders of each party?
Chiang Kai-shek (KMT) and Mao Zedong (CCP)
What was the goal of the Great Leap Forward?
Modernize China/ transform China from agricultural to industrial communist society
Deng wanted to modernize Agriculture, Industry, Science and technology, and the Military as part of what plan?
Four Modernizations
How did the Chinese view the British technologies that were offered as gifts?
China believed it was superior and did not need British goods.
Who won the First Opium War?
The British
Fighting in the civil war stopped to unite against which common enemy?
Japan
How many farmers lived on each commune?
20,000
Under Deng, peasants were able to do what with their products and the surplus products?
Sell them in rural markets.
What was the outcome of the mission?
The mission failed.
The Second Opium War was fought between which countries?
China, Britain, and France
During which historical event did the Communists retreat from the Nationalists and gain support from the peasants?
The Long March
What was the youth organization that was trained to rebel against the elders during the Cultural Revolution?
The Red Guards
How were Deng's policies similar to Mao's?
No political freedoms, centralized government planning.
Macartney refused to perform what formal Chinese traditional bow?
The Kowtow
What treaty made China open several ports to British trade, China gave Hong Kong to Britain?
Treaty of Nanjing
After the civil war ended in 1949 with the Communists establishing the People's Republic of China, the Nationalists fled to where?
Taiwan
What are the estimates for how many people were killed by the famine?
14 million to 43 million people
What was the name of the economic system Deng created in China?
Socialist market economy