Economic Policies
What was the priority industry during the First Five Year plan?
Heavy Industry
What law gave more equal rights to women in 1950 in China?
Marriage Law 1950
What is another name for the state-sanctioned terror campaign, otherwise known as the Agrarian Reform Laws?
"Speak Bitterness" Campaign
Who became President of China after Mao stepped down in 1958?
Liu Shaoqi
When the CCP took power, what percentage of the population was illiterate?
85%
What does the period of "Fanshen" stand for?
Transformation or to 'turn over'
When were Chinese women permitted to vote?
In 1953, after the Electoral Law passed.
During which Plenum (including the year) was Peng Duhuai purged?
The 1959 Lushan Plenum
What was the common slogan pushed out during the war in Korea?
Resist America, Aid Korea!
What Soviet event took place in 1957 which is closely associated with the reason for starting the Great Leap Forward?
The Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched and Khrushchev declared Russia would overtake America in 15 years.
What were the two major theories of Lysenkoism in China which led to ruined crops?
The Soviet theories of Lysenko which advocated for deep ploughing and dense planting.
How many households (or people) did the average People's Commune house?
5000 Households, 100,000 people
What were the three targets of Three Antis-Campaign?
Who was put in charge of heading the beginning of the Anti-Rightist Campaign?
Deng Xiaoping
How did Mao's oldest son die?
In 1950 during the Korean war.
What were the animals targeted in the Four Pests campaign of the Great Leap Forward?
Sparrows, Mozzies, Flies and Rats
Rather that use formal courts, the CCP mobilised ordinary people to dictate its Anti-Campaigns. Some of these denunciations were known as "struggle sessions" (which could sometimes go on for months. Describe what typically happened during these (2-3 things)
The accused had to attend a mass meeting where they 'self-criticised' their faults, gave public declarations of their ideological shortcomings and were humiliated.
What did Tibet sign in 1951, ending their 'de-facto' independence from the People's Republic of China?
The Seventeen Point Agreement
Wuhan's 11th Annual Cross-Yangtze Competition
Communist Albania and Communist China grew closer together in the early 1960s at the same time as the USSR relationship was deteriorating. Who was the Albanian leader at the time?
Identify three public health programs which improved the health of the citizens.
Mass vaccinations; Educational campaign to discourage spitting and urination in public; Brothels were closed; Opium addicts were put into rehabilitation programmes.
What were the four revolutionary classes according to Mao?
Peasantry. Proletariat, Petit-bourgeoisie (lower-middle class, small business owner); National capitalists (middle class or loyal industrialists)
What were the five targets of the Five Antis-Campaign?
Bribery; theft of state property; tax evasion; cheating on government contracts; stealing state economic intelligence
On top of visual propaganda (like posters and film), how did the CCP try to ensure their propaganda was spread despite the majority of the population being illiterate?
Newspaper reading groups were established in order to ensure that everyone got the key messages.
It condemned 'Stalinism' and the cult of personality behind Stalin; including the violence under the show trials and purges.