Chinese Government (use with China government powerpoint)

Match the following

• MaoZedong

• communist founder of the people’s republic of China

• totalitarian

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• Communism

• • economic system in which the major productive resources in a society—such as mines, factories, and farms—are owned by the state

• Civil Disobedience

• • the non violent refusal to obey laws, demands or commands from a government

Communism: when the government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole.

What style of government is this?

• unlimited

• limited

IN what year did China become a Communist country?

What happened as a result of communism taking over China?

• factories were taken over by the government

• people were given more freedoms

• small farms were combined into large government farms

• people lost individual freedoms

• many were killed for opposing communism

What year did China become less communist and more open?

Communism completely disappeared from China.

• true

• false

Chinese people were given more__________________ freedom.

The Tiananmen Square protests too place in what year?

At the Tiananmen Square protest, what did the people demand from the government?

• more food

• democracy

• to not be run over by tanks

• bigger apartments

What were the results of the Tiananmen Square protests?

• people were given more freedoms

• thousands of protesters were arrested

• hundreds of protesters were killed

• the government allowed the people to write letters

• nothing