Mao's Early Rise
This is the Chinese province where Mao Zedong was born in 1893.
What is Hunan (or Shaoshan)?
This rival political party, also known as the GMD, was led by Jiang Jieshi.
What is the Nationalist Party (or Guomindang)?
This body of ideas and sayings was compiled into the "Little Red Book" and helped promote the Cult of Mao.
What is Mao Zedong Thought (or Maoism)?
This is the term for the Communist Party's method of mass indoctrination to gain support for mass campaigns.
What is 'thought reform'?
This major conflict, which lasted from 1937 to 1945, abruptly ended with the dropping of the atomic bombs.
What is the Sino-Japanese War (or Second Sino-Japanese War)?
Mao moved here in 1918 to work for a Marxist thinker and quickly became a strong believer in Communism.
What is Peking?
Mao formed this military force in the remote mountains of Jingangshan after his failed revolt in Hunan.
What is the Red Army?
This reform, which was one of Mao's two long-promised changes, transformed the farming sector of the PRC.
What is agricultural transformation?
This military force helped to indoctrinate the population and reinforce political messages, in addition to fighting wars.
What is the People's Liberation Army (PLA)?
The US continued to supply this political party and helped them retake areas from the Red Army after the end of WWII.
What is the GMD (or Nationalist Party)?
Mao became one of the 50 founding members of this political organization.
What is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
The violent suppression of the Communist Party by military forces in Shanghai in April 1927, also known as the White Terror.
What is the Shanghai Massacre?
A formal constitution established China as this kind of state in 1954, consolidating Mao's power.
What is a single-party state?
"Reactionary elements" and "Enemies of the people" were two examples of these classifications used to identify non-people after 1949.
What are the five 'black' categories?
This man, one of the leading figures in the Communist Party, managed to survive purges during the Cultural Revolution by showing loyalty to Mao.
Who is Zhou Enlai?
Mao advocated that this social class, whom he studied and learned about, should lead the revolution.
What are the peasants?
This epic march, which lasted from 1934-1935, allowed Mao to emerge as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communists.
What is the Long March?
This system provided workers with benefits while also encouraging spying and cult mentality, serving as a method of legal control.
What is the Danwei system?
These repressive methods involved large public meetings where individuals were forced to admit crimes or denounce colleagues.
What are group criticism sessions (or self-criticism)?
Jiang Jieshi called the Japanese "a disease of the skin," but called this group "a disease of the heart".
What are the communists?
This anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement in 1919 protested the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the May Fourth Movement?
This meeting in January 1935 during the Long March confirmed Mao's position to take over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party.
What is the Zunyi Conference?
This campaign, launched after the abrupt end of the Hundred Flowers Movement in July 1957, targeted anti-communist intellectuals.
What is the Anti-Rightist Campaign?
This movement (1966-1976) was fundamentally about elite politics, as Mao used radical youths against the Communist Party hierarchy to reassert control.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This country concluded a treaty with China in 1950, with the aid proving useful for strengthening China's economy.
What is the USSR (or Soviet Union)?