Cold War in Asia Quiz

The difficult, years-long journey made by Mao Zedong and his followers in 1934 through China’s mountains, marshes, and rivers was called the

• Cultural Revolution

• Boxer Rebellion

• Great Leap Forward

• Long March

In the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949), support for Mao Zedong’s Communist forces came primarily from the

• Landowners

• Peasants

• Industrialists

• Confucian scholars

The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Communist Revolution in China were similar in that all three

• Brought about few political changes

• Were influenced by the peasants’ desire for more land

• Were inspired by Marxism

• Were supported primarily by the nobility

Which of the following best describes those who joined the Red Guards?

• students and young people

• older, dissatisfied people

• traditional and Confucian

• admirers of European cultures

Why did the people of China ultimately reject the Cultural Revolution?

• Its ideas were rooted in old culture

• Mao did not believe in it

• The actions of the Red Guards horrified them

• It stood for change

What happened after Mao’s forces claimed victory in the Chinese Civil War?

• Mao gave up the presidency and invited the south to join his forces

• Chiang Kai-Shek and 2 million followers fled to Taiwan

• The Chinese people voted overwhelmingly to follow Chiang Kai-Shek

• The Communists overturned Mao and took away his leadership

What was a reason for the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949?

• The Nationalists had been supported by the Japanese

• Many Chinese warlords supported the Communists

• The Communists had superior military equipment

• The Communists promised land to the peasants

The purpose of Mao’s Great Leap Forward program was to

• Force more people to farm private plots of land

• Increase the government’s aid to individuals

• Encourage workers to start new businesses

• modernize Chinese agriculture and industry

The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

• Stop the south from controlling the north

• Drive the French out of Vietnam

• Prevent a Communist takeover of the south

• Force the Vietnamese to adopt democracy

The U.S. government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

• Other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam

• Other Asian countries would also fall to communism

• U.S. citizens would turn against the war

• North Vietnam would become communist too