Paper 2 History IB: Mao | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What term is used to describe health workers who provided medical care in rural areas?

Barefoot Doctors

Patriotic Health Movements aimed to provide basic advice on health and hygiene in PRC. True or False

True

What written form of Mandarin that characterized sounds into symbols helped to improve literacy in PRC?

Pinyin

By 1976 the levels of literacy had risen from 20% in 1949 to what?

70%

Which practice continued because of ingrained ideas about women?

Female infanticide

Name two changes as part of the 1950 Marriage Reform Law

AM ended, Concubinage abolished, divorce for AM, Dowries forbidden, Marriages registered with state

The Great Famine tarnished Mao's reputation as he blamed peasants, local officials and bad weather. True or False

True

What term refers to the state ownership of land?

Collectivization

What was the 'iron rice bowl'?

The system for guaranteeing jobs and protecting wages under the second Five Year Plan

What other name is given to the Second Five Year Plan 1958-62?

The Great Leap Forward

Which industries were the target of development under the First Five Year Plan?

Coal, steel, petrochemicals, transport

What type of economy did Mao envision for China's success?

Command Economy

By what year had the US and China established full diplomatic relations?

1979

Which US team was invited to play in China in1971, showing a turn in relations with the US?

Table Tennis

What did the Bandung Conference of 1955 show about Mao?

Leader of the communist world and non-aligned countries

In the early 1970s, whose influence in the CCP was Mao concerned about?

Lin Biao

What are the four olds?

Old: ideas, culture, customs, habits

What sub-committee of the Politburo was set up in 1966 also played a key role in the 1960s purges?

Central Cultural Revolution Group (CCRG)

Which faction of the CCP was responsible for implementing the harshest and most radical policies of the Cultural Revolution?

Gang of Four

What was the 'Little Red Book'?

A compilation of the thoughts and sayings of Mao since the 1920s

Between what years was the Cultural-Revolution?

1966-76

In 1959 which region rose up against Chinese occupation?

Tibet

In 1959 who threatened Mao's position by openly speaking about the countryside famines?

Peng Dehuai

What is the slogan of the 1957 Hundred Flowers campaign?

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend

Whose speech did Mao interpret as an attack on his 'cult of personality'?

Khrushchev

China's involvement in the Korean war bolstered Mao's prestige at home and abroad. True or False

True

What is the 'Bamboo curtain'?

The border between communist China and its non-communist neighbours

What term was used to justify the acceptance of Mao's ultimate authority?

Democratic centralism

Around how many leading members of the CCP made up the Politburo?

20

Where were many counter-revolutionaries sent to?

Labour Camps

Thought reform included a re-education of all women. True or False

False. government offices, factories, workshops and schools

As part of his mass mobilization campaigns, who did Mao declare enemies of the state?

reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries

What was the 'three-anti campaign' of 1951 changed to a year later?

'five-anti campaign'

What name is given to the CCP's invasion of regions of China to secure China's borders?

reunification campaigns

In 1949, where did Chiang Kai-shek move his government to?

Taiwan

Which US president sent his secretary of state in 1946 to broker a deal between the GMD and CCP?

Truman

Which event was crucial in weakening the GMD and strengthening the CCP and Mao?

Sino-Japanese War

In what year was the Second United Front formed?

1937

What was Mao's mass line tactic advocated by Mao in the 1940s?

Policy of increasing and cultivating mass contacts with the broad mass of the people showing the leadership role of the party

How many Km or Miles was the Long March?

11,000km or 7,000miles

In which incident were 4,000 Red Army troops tortured and executed on Mao's orders?

The Futian Incident 1930

Give one consequence of the 1927 White Terror.

United Front collapsed/Warlord Zoulin seized control of Beijing/Chiang est. nationalist government in Nanjing

Who became leader of the United Front after the death of Sun Yatsen in 1925?

Chiang Kai-shek

The First United Front resulted in an increased membership of the CCP. True or False?

True

Which two parties formed the First United Front in1924?

GMD and CCP

In what year was the CCP formed?

1921

What event prompted student protests in Beijing in May 1919?

The Treaty of Versailles

Who ruled China between 1916 -1927?

Warlords

Name the two major rebellions against the Qing dynasty during the late 1800s

Taiping and Boxer rebellion

Before 1911 what values were at the heart of Chinese society?

Confucian