Chinese Civil War Quiz

What was one of the military reasons for the GMD's loss in Manchuria?

• Lack of popular support

• Inability to appoint generals on merit

• Reliance on warlords

• Devaluation of currency

What was the name of Mao's troops after implementing the theory of People’s War?

• Red Army

• People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

• Guerrilla Army

• Nationalist Army

What was one of the political reasons for Mao's victory?

• Control of the CCP

• Lack of communist ideals

• Acceptance of bribes by generals

• Disputes over authority within the CCP

What did Chiang's generals do to avoid drawing taxes?

• Treated the peasantry with respect

• Implemented communist ideals

• Accepted bribes

• Used guerrilla tactics

What was one of the social and economic reasons for Chiang's loss of support?

• Resistance to the Japanese

• Role of the proletariat

• Devaluation of currency

• Treatment of the bourgeoisie

• ​ (a)   would prove to be a death trap for the GMD because it could not supply its troops. It lost half a ​ (b)   troops there. 

• Chiang, still reliant on ​ (c)   , was unable to appoint generals on ​ (d)   and his military leadership lacked technical ability.

• Manchuria
• million
• regiment of
• Warlords
• American support
• merit

• Moreover, Chiang’s generals were ​ (a)   with the ​ (b)   who were treated

• ​ (c)   and forcefully ​ (d)   .

• unpopular
• popular
• peasantry
• proletariat
• harshly
• well
• conscripted
• beaten

• Mao implemented the theory of ​ (a)   , renaming his troops The People’s Liberation Army(PLA),

• Motivated by Mao’s version of Communism, the PLA treated the ​ (b)   with ​ (c)   and in return received supplies and support.

• ​ (d)   led the use of​ (e)   against the GMD in the mountainous regions of the north.

• People's War
• Peasantry
• Proletariat
• respect
• rewards
• Lin Biao
• guerrilla tactics
• conventional war
• Mao

• Mao's control of the ​ (a)   meant that there were no disputes over authority and the soldiers and population were driven by ​ (b)   . 

• Chiang had claimed to rule according to Sun Yat-sen’s three principles of nationalism, democracy and people’s livelihood, but it was Mao that seemed to deliver on these promises,

• Chiang’s generals were quick to accept ​ (c)   to avoid

• ​ (d)   , thus depriving Chiang’s army of funding.

• PLA troops had used ​ (e)   to educate the peasantry in communist ideals and treated them kindly.

 

 

• CCP
• Army
• Communist Ideals
• hunger
• bribes
• horses
• drawing taxes
• fighting
• posters
• posers

As well as looking to the peasantry, Mao confounded communist expectations by also allying with...

• Americans

• bourgeoisie in the cities

• proletariat

• Fish wives