China- Bullet point 2 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryCommunist ChinaA2/A-levelAQA Created by: RonanhollierCreated on: 28-05-17 17:54 When was the Agrarian reform law? What did it allow? 1950. Allowed for peasants to interrogate landlords in 'speak bitterness meetings' 1 of 33 What percentage of arable land was redistributed and what percentage benefited? 40% and 60% 2 of 33 What is the 'land to the tiller movement'? Peasants got a small plot of land to call their own 3 of 33 What are 'mutual aid teams'? By what year were 40% of peasants part of a team? Sharing equipment and labour and 1952 4 of 33 How many landlords are estimated to have died? 1-2 million landlords 5 of 33 When was the first five year plan? 1953-57 6 of 33 What is the focus on? What are statistics? Focus is heavy industry, coal doubled, electricity trebled and steel quadrupled 7 of 33 What were peasants urged to join? APCs (agricultural producers co-operatives_ 8 of 33 When was rash advanced introduced and why? 1953 as Mao became disillusioned with the peasants 9 of 33 By 1956, what percentage of peasants lived in APCs? Nearly 90% 10 of 33 What are problems with measuring success against targets? Dependent upon loans from the SU, consumer goods were low, value of agricultural output grew from 2.1% a year 11 of 33 When was the great leap forward? What were peasants expected to do? Between 1959-61. Asked to produce their own steel (backyard furnaces) 12 of 33 What are environmental consequences of steel? Erosion of top soil deterioration and deforestation 13 of 33 Who is Trofim Lysenko? What did he say? Pseudo agricultural scientist, told them to plant seeds closely like 'a sky full of stars' 14 of 33 What percentage of Tibetans died? What was the 'four pest' campaign? 20% and an attack on rats, flies, spiders and mosquitoes 15 of 33 What is 'launching of a satellite'? Different communes making up statistics about how much they should produce 16 of 33 What is a key quotation about the GLF? 'China's 600 million people are firstly poor and secondly blank' 17 of 33 When was the Behaide meeting? 1959 18 of 33 What were the following steps taken? Communes were scaled back in favour of greater freedom, there was a free market and managers were given more control over state owned enterprises 19 of 33 When was the Great Famine? 1958-62 20 of 33 What was the rural death rate before the famine and then in 1960? 11.07% per 1000 inhabitants and 28.68 % 21 of 33 How many people died in Henan and Sichuan? 7.8 million and 9 million 22 of 33 What percentage of land was affected? 60% 23 of 33 How many rivers in Shangdong dried out? 8/12 24 of 33 What did the Communist party name Communes in August 1958? The 'basic social units of Communist society' 25 of 33 When was the first commune established and what year? What did Mao declare? Henan in July 1958, and 'the people's commune is great' 26 of 33 How many co-operatives had been organised into how many communes? 740,000 - 26,000 communes 27 of 33 What percentage of people lived in Communes? 99% 28 of 33 What happened as part of communes? What percentage of owmen laboured in agriculture between 58-59? Names were removed and 90% 29 of 33 What age of able bodied men belonged to the military? 15-50 30 of 33 When was the Lushan conference? What did Mao say? 1959, that the famine was '30% human error and 70% natural disaster' 31 of 33 Which people said that they were ill the day of the meeting? Liu SHaozui, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping 32 of 33 What are the factors that contributed towards the famine? Poor harvests, higher taxes, show fields, backyard furnaces and grain being sent to the USSR 33 of 33
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