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When was the Civil War?

1946-1949

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Who was it between? What is the name of the leader?

Nationalists (Chiang Kai-Shek) and Communist

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How many people had died after WW2 and civil war?

20 million

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What was the percentage of hyperinflation?

100%

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Which area was the most advance in terms of industry?

Manchuria

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What percentage was industrial output?

25% pre- war level

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What percentage lower was food production than pre-war?

30% lower

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In 1949, what percentage was factory output compared to 1937?

44%

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What percentage of the population are peasants?

80%

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How many lives had peasants claimed?

2- 3 million lives

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What percentage of railway network had been destroyed?

50%

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What had been a tactic of the Communists during the civil war?

To blow up railway tracks and bridges

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What was Peng in charge of?

The PLA, party grew to 5.8 million by the end of 1950

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What is the 'Danwei'?

Work units

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What are the three parallel strands of the communist party?

PLA, bureaucracy and CP

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What happened in the 1949 Chinese People's political constitute conference?

They created and formed the new government but also created the 'common programme' which set out a range of rights

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How many members did the CPPCC have?

14 members but within that there was the 'Standing Committee' made up of 5

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What did the number of state official increase from in 1949 to 1959?

720,000 to 7.9 million

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Who was state bureaucracy headed by?

Zhou as he held the post of prime minister and foreign minister

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When was the conscription law for the PLA introduced? How man new recruits were introduced?

1955 and 800,000 new recruits

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What is a famous quotation from Mao?

'All political power lies in the barallel of a gun'

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How many different sections was the PRC divided into?

6

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What are the six aspects of Mao Zedong thought?

Self-reliance, learning from people, mass mobilisation, contributing revolution, primacy of peasants and struggle meetings

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What is a term used to describe what the party was meant to be like?

Democratic centralisation

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What year was Tibet an independent country? Why did Mao want Tibet?

1913 as it was a 'corridor' to the Western world

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What year were the PLA sent into TIbet? What year did the Dalai Lama flee Tibet?

1950 and 1959.

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What were the three areas for the re-unification campaign?

Tibet, Guangdong and Xinjiang

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How many people were executed in Guangdong?

Estimated 28,000 people died

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What was the ethnic group in Xinjiang? What percentage of the population were this?

Uighurs and 80%

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How many PLA troops were sent in to face how many Muslim cavalry?

150,000 troops and 40,000 Muslim cavalry

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What was the subtitle of the Laogai? What percentage of prisoners were political?

'Reform through labour' and 90%

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By the start of 1953, how many prisoners were there there?

More than 1.3 million

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How is it described as? What was it inspired by?

A carefully orchestrated Auschwitz of the mind and Stalin's gulags

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In Mao's reign, what is the estimated number of people that were sent there?

25 million

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What did the Head of Public Secretary Bureau say about it?

That 'it is better for inmates to die than to flee'

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What were some of the jobs that they were expected to do?

Clear malaria swamps, uranium mines and brick factories

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When was the 3 antis campaign? What did Mao call it?

Between 51-52, 'big clean up throughout the party'

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What were the three antis? Who was it led by? What did he boast about?

Corruption, waste and delay. Bo Yobo, and that he had found 100,000 flies/ tigers

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What was the public's reaction?

Quickly became clear that it was supported by the public

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When was the 5 antis campaign? Who are the targets?

Between Feb and May 1952. Bourgeoisie managers/ business people

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How many people were shot, put in a labour camp or fired?

1% shot, 1% went to labour camps and 3% were fired

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Which area bore the brunt of it?

Shanghai

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When was the 100 flowers campaign?

Launched 2nd May 1956 and ended June 1957, 'let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend'

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Who was the campaign prompted by? What did Mao say about it?

Zhou Enlai, 'if they have something to fart about let them fart'

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When was the Anti-rightist campaign? What did it do?

Released the same year and rounded up all those who took part in the 100 flowers campaign

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What are 'poisonous weeds'? What quotas were cadres given?

Those who needed to be rooted out of society. Quota of 5% of people in the Danwei

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What did a famous Chinese novelist say?

'Gradually only two things became important in my life, eating grass soup and breathing'

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How many intellectuals are it estimated that were purged?

Between 400,000- 700,000 intellectuals

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When was the Korean War?

June 1950, North Korean leader Kim 2 Jung launched an attack

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What was the campaign that was released?

'Resist America Aid Korea campaign'

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What were American's described as?

Bandits, savages and murderers

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How many people died in the Korean War?

400,000

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What percentage of government spending could Mao pass?

5%

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What percentage of Government spending went on the Korean War?

55%

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What tactic was used? What percentage of people were in poverty in Manchuria?

The Human wave tactic and a 1/3

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What is 'limonski'?

A Russian word used for yellow skinned people

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What is the fraction of salary that went to the war? What is the word for this?

Coercion and a 1/3

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