6.12 - China Vocabulary Quiz

an economic system in which all means of production (land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) are owned by the government; private property does not exist; all goods and services are shared equally.

• communism
• collectivization
• Sun Yat-sen
• Chinese Civil War

a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government

• collectivization
• totalitarianism
• Sun Yat-sen
• Chinese Civil War

government that controls all aspect of public and private life

• collectivization
• totalitarianism
• Sun Yat-sen
• Chinese Civil War

nationalist leader of the group that overthrew the last emperor in China; afterward he became the president of China

• communism
• collectivization
• totalitarianism
• Sun Yat-sen (Yixian)

War between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek (Jiang Jieshi). The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan

• communism
• collectivization
• totalitarianism
• Chinese Civil War

Leader of the Nationalist Party (Kuomingtang/Guomindang) in China. Fought to keep China from becoming communist. He lost control of China in 1949, and fled to Taiwan where he setup a rival government.

• Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
• Mao Zedong
• Long March
• Taiwan

Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Mao Zedong
• Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
• Commune
• Taiwan

When the Chinese Communists fled from the Nationalists to northwestern China. Led by Mao Zedong, only 10% of the Communists survived.

• Long March
• Mao Zedong
• Commune
• Taiwan

a large group of people or families living together on a collective farm and sharing everything

• Commune
• Mao Zedong
• Long March
• Taiwan

About 100 miles off China's southeastern coast; Chinese nationalists fled to this country after the civil war.

• Taiwan
• Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
• Long March
• Commune