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Little Red Book
Mao's self-written "bible" containing his plans and "wisdom"
permanent revolution
An atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor for which Mao hoped.
The Four Olds
old habits, old ideas, old customs, old culture,
HICCup
H-abits
I-ideas
C-ustoms
C-ulture
communes
groups of collective farms. Mao had already collectivized individual farms into collectives the size of a village, but then he combined those village-sized collectives into massive communes that housed 30,000 people each
Tiananmen Square
1989: site of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, which the Chinese government crushed with tanks; also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Four Modernizations
Post-Mao leader Deng Xioping's plan to improve China via modernizing technology, industry, national defense, agriculture.
TINA
T-technology
I-industry
N-national defense
A-agriculture
North Korea and South Korea are divided at the following parallel:
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