Red China

War between communist Mao Zse Tong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan

• Chinese Civil War

• WWII

• Cold War

• Long March

Leader of the Chinese Communists whose revolutionary army seized power in China in 1949

• Mao Zedong

• Zhou Enlai

• Liao Bang

• Deng Xiaoping

Replaced Dr. Sun Yixian as leader of the GMD after Sun's death in 1925. Leader of nationalist forces in the Chinese Civil War.

• General Jiang Jieshi

• Zhou Enlai

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mao Zedong

Mao's attempt to transform China into an economic power (agriculture and industry)

• Long March

• Great Leap Forward

• Four Modernizations

• Cultural Revolution

In 1966 Mao launched a program that purged the Chinese Communist Party and empowered China's youth to rebel against their elders and continue Mao's revolution.

• Long March

• Great Leap Forward

• Four Modernizations

• Cultural Revolution

Communist Party leader who was responsible for Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mao Zedong

• General Jiang Jieshi

• Zhou Enlai

Deng Xiaoping's plan to change China after the disaster of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Improve agriculture, science/technology, defense and industry

• Long March

• Four Modernizations

• Great Leap Forward

• Tiananmen Square Protests

During the Great Leap Forward, Chinese peasants were forced to

• join communes

• move to the cities

• convert to Christianity

• attack the Red Guards

What was an immediate result of the Great Leap Forward (1958)?

• Independence of Kenya from Great Britain

• The breakup of the Soviet Union

• The relocation of Bosnian refugees

• Increased famine in China

One similarity between Stalin’s five-year plans and Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward was that both programs attempted to

• Increase industrial production

• Privatize the ownership of land

• Correct environmental polluton

• Strengthen international trade