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What were the Opium Wars?

Great Britain brought Opium into China where it was being bought and sold at exponential rates. The Chinese people became addicted to the drug, which caused the loss of high amounts of money. They became reliant on Britain.
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What were the two sides of the Chinese Civil War?

Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist KMT Party

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Who was the CCP's leader?

Mao Zedong

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What was the Great Leap Forward?

Economic & social plan to transform mainland China from farming into a modernized agricultural society

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Who was the first president and founder of Turkey?

Kemal Ataturk

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What was the Boxer Rebellion?

Anti-Christian, Anti-foreign movement in China

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What big country supported the development of communism in China?

The USSR

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Who was the KMT's leader?

Chiang Kai-Shek

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What was the goal of the Great Leap Forward?

Catch up to the industrialization of Great Britain and the United States. Increase industrial production

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What did Kemal do for Turkey?

Modernize, secularize, and westernize

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What kind of plant does opium come from?

Poppy

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What was the Long March?

90,000-100,000 communists did the Long March away from the Nationalists under Mao Zedong towards freedom and safety. Only 7-8k people made it to the northwest section of China.

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What kind of leader was Mao Zedong?

Totalitarian Leader


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What was the Great Chinese Famine?

Millions of Chinese people died due to Zedongs' Great Leap Forward plan in the 1960s
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What is secularization?

Separation of church and state

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What was the Treaty of Nanjing?

The treaty signed at the end of the Opium Wars.

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What was the Nanjing Massacre?

Japan invaded China and won military victory after victory. Killed as many as 300,000 civilians over 2 months.

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What was the "Little Red Book"?

Collection of quotes from Mao Zedong in 1964

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What caused the famine?

Collectivization placed farmers into large communes. Officials reported high grain output and lied about it. Bad farming techniques and poor farming decisions


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What did Ataturk do for the women in society?

Gave them more rights! Women could vote in 1934 and wear more westernized clothing

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What was the last dynasty in China?

The Qing Dynasty

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Where was the Republic of China set up?

Taiwan

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Who was Deng Xiaoping?

Key leader of Communist China after Mao Zedong

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How many people died in the Great Chinese Famine?

Records estimate up to 40 million people.

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What are the 3 big things that Ataturk did for Turkey?

Modernize, westernize, and secularize