Post-1949 Chinese History

That's one small step for man...

100

This was the name of the policy that Mao launched to try and catch up and overtake the West

Great Leap Forward

200

This caused the deaths of 30 million people in the years around 1961

Great Famine

300

Peasants were instructed to make this in backyard furnaces in the countryside (to horrendous effect)

Steel

400

This name was given to the areas where multiple villages moved to work and live together from around 1958-1962

Communes

500

This "Movement" of 1959 ensured no one dare speak out to criticize what would later transpire during the years from 1960-1962

Anti-Rightist Movement

You say you want a revolution

100

Fill in this blank: Great Proletariat ___ Revolution (1966-1976)

Cultural

200

This was the title give to the colored armband-wearing youth ordered to "make revolution," and "destroy the old and establish the new"

Red Guards

300

This was the nickname for the book "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong"

Little Red Book

400

This was the nickname given to the group blamed for the excesses of 1966-1976

Gang of Four

500

This was the name given to young people Mao ordered to reeducate themselves from the peasants in the countryside, in order to get them out of the cities falling into anarchy and civil war

Sent-Down Youth

How Mao Brown Cow

100

Mao led the Communist party to victory in the Chinese Civil War against this group

Nationalist Party

200

Mao established an alliance with this country shortly after founding his new nation (it wouldn't last)

Soviet Union

300

Counterrevolutionaries were targeted, attacked, and publically criticized in these recurring events during the Mao years

Struggle sessions

400

This was Mao's first major policy effort in the countryside

Land Reform / Collectivization of Agriculture

500

In 1957, this "Campaign" was launched with Mao's blessing to encourage criticism of the party (It's a trap!)

Hundred Flowers Campaign

Dun, dun, DENG!

100

This eponymous "massacre" took place here after Deng violently suppressed student protests

Tiananmen Square

200

This was the date (day, month, year) that student protests were violently suppressed under Deng

June 4, 1989

300

In 1992, following the violent suppression of protesters in Beijing, Deng embarked on this in order to reassure the nation that they could continue capitalist pursuits

Southern Tour

400

This was the collective name for the set of policies under Deng that allowed for more market economics in China and encouraged interaction on a global stage

Reform and Opening Up

500

Certain cities during Deng's rule were allowed to experiment more freely in market economics and free trade. Name either what these unique areas were called or the most famous city to benefit from this status, located next to Hong Kong

Special Economic Zones / Shenzhen

He said, Xi said

100

This is the full name of China's current leader

Xi Jinping

200

This is the name of the family-planning policy that ended under Xi in 2021 and helped result in a massive gender imbalance in China

One-Child Policy

300

This ethnic group has suffered under an intense state surveillance and reeducation campaign in Xinjiang, including forced labor and live-in political minders

Uyghur

400

This province suffered a horrendous earthquake in 2008 (before Xi), resulting in massive casualties

Sichuan

500

Name one of these two international achievements China experienced in 2001 (before Xi)

Admittance to the World Trade Organization and Awarding of the 2008 Summer Olympics