S&E Asia History Vocab 3

As a response to more freedom in Europe, Chinese students began protesting against the controlling Chinese Communist Government.

• Warlord

• Great Leap Forward

• Tiananmen Square

• Mao Zedong

Students who participated in the Cultural Revolution; they read Mao's little Red Book and used violence to act against those who they thought were disloyal to Mao.

• Cultural Revolution

• Deng Xiaoping

• Communism

• Red Guards

A reform movement in China that called for government-run farming communes and industries. The plan failed horribly!

• Great Leap Forward

• Communism

• Warlords

• Mao Zedong

The communist leader that took power in China in 1949 and establish the Peoples Republic of China.

• Warlord

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mao Zedong

• Chiang Kai-Shek

Places established by the government during the Great Leap Forward where as many as 25,000 people lived, worked, and ran industries as a group.

• Communism

• Communes

• Tiananmen Square

• Red Guards

Leader of the Nationalist party in China. He wanted to have a capitalist economy and he believed that citizens should make economic decisions by owning private businesses.

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mao Zedong

• Warlord

• Chiang Kai-Shek

The movement that came as a response to criticism of China's government. Its purpose was to purge those people in China who opposed Mao Zedong's rule.

• Cultural Revolution

• Great Leap Forward

• Communes

• Communism

A political system where power is held with/by party officials and people have few personal freedoms as the government controls many aspects of their lives.

• Communes

• Cultural Revolution

• Communism

• Tiananmen Square

He became the leader of China after Mao's death. He made some reforms, however the Communist government continued to control the economy in China and the citizens were not given basic rights and freedoms.

• Chiang Kai-Shek

• Deng Xiaoping

• Warlord

• Mao Zedong

A military commander who exercises power over the people living in a small area by force.

• Communism

• Tiananmen Square

• Mao Zedong

• Warlord