Mao’s Consolidation (1949–1961)
This method was used to suppress counter-revolutionaries.
Mass campaigns / purges / use of propaganda and terror (e.g. suppression campaigns)
This plan focused on heavy industry with Soviet assistance.
First Five-Year Plan
This law improved women’s rights in marriage.
Marriage Law (1950)
This group of students led many attacks on “bourgeois” elements.
Red Guards
This leader emerged first after Mao’s death as the dominant figure.
Hua Guofeng
This 1956 campaign briefly encouraged criticism of the CCP.
Hundred Flowers Campaign
This policy attempted to rapidly industrialize through communes.
Great Leap Forward
One major change in healthcare under Mao.
Expansion of rural healthcare / barefoot doctors / improved life expectancy
The stated aim of the Cultural Revolution.
To remove capitalist/“bourgeois” elements and reassert Mao’s control
This program aimed to modernize China’s economy.
Four Modernizations
This campaign aimed to improve party discipline and eliminate corruption.
Rectification Campaigns
One major failure of the Great Leap Forward.
Famine / economic collapse / millions of deaths / failed steel production
A key change in education policy after 1949
Increased literacy / expansion of schooling / ideological education
This political faction gained power during the Cultural Revolution.
Gang of Four
One cause of the 1989 protests.
This reform redistributed land from landlords to peasants.
Land Reform Law (1950)
A key feature of collectivization under Mao.
Collective farms / communes / abolition of private farming
One limitation of women’s equality despite reforms.
Continued inequality / traditional attitudes persisted / limited leadership roles for women
One social or cultural consequence of the Cultural Revolution.
One economic reform introduced under Deng.
Explain two ways Mao consolidated power politically by 1953.
Compare successes and failures of the First Five-Year Plan.
Evaluate the impact of Maoist social policies on daily life.
Analyze two causes of the Cultural Revolution.
Evaluate the significance of Tiananmen Square (1989).