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| launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 to heighten economic productivity through mass organization and the inspiration of revolution among the people of china. He exaggerated the success of the policies of collectivization and the decentralization of industrial production through things like backyard furnaces and farming collectivization. |
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| the exchange of table tennis players between china and the us in the early 1970?s, Paved the way for President Nixon?s visit to china in 1972 |
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| Feminist writer and member of the Chinese Communist Party wrote famous works. Was criticized during the rectification campaign of 1943 and was imprisoned as result of the anti rightist movement that followed the hundred flowers movement and again during the Cultural Revolution. Seen as a rightist |
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| Young Pla officer whose humble demeanor and selfless service to Mao Zedong and the communist party. He was upheld as a role model in many propaganda campaigns of the last twenty five years. Could possibly be fake |
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| One of Mao?s plans to increase steel production where peasants had small backyard Furnaces and they were encouraged to produce steel out of what ever they had lying around. People were not able to get the furnaces hot enough and were not able to produce steel but instead produced crude metals that were not as strong. This inadvertently caused a famine because so many people were working on the steel and not enough were working in the fields. |
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| communist general, a trusted veteran of the long march he was purged from the party in 1959 for criticizing Mao?s Great leap forward policies. |
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| In 1957 this was a brief period of liberalization when Mao Encouraged the ?blooming of hundred flowers and the contending of a hundred schools of thought?. It called for the nations intellectuals to criticize the communist party. This was quickly cut off in June after a resultant outpouring of expression and then Mao launched the ?anti-rightist ? campaign against those who spoke out. |
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| a poor mountainous region town in Shangxi province a base for Chinese Communist Party activities from the end of the long march in 1936 until it was seized by the kmt in 1947. It was the base where Mao grew his power and developed the plan to get the peasants to join his cause. |
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| The story of foolish man who moved a mountain piece by piece. Talked of rebuilding society from the ground up using pure human will region behind policies wants to move the mountains of imperialism and feudalism. |
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| After the Japanese forces moved inward from the coastal cities, Nanjing was captured by Japan and Chiang Moved the capital to Chongqing |
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| experimental rural communist government led by Mao Zedong .Southeast mountainous area hard to move tanks/ large armies to. It was established in 1928 and lasted until a guomindang blockade in 1934 which force the communists to escape north and started the Long March |
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| Refers to the day that stalin died and china started a movement to produce nuclear weapons in order to show that they were strong without the help of Stalin and the soviets |
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| Term used to describe a tenuous policy of cooperation between the usually antagonistic Chinese communist party and the Kuomintang was put into effect twice for the purpose of realizing national goals. The first united front (1923-1927) aimed at reclaiming china from warlord forces and the second united front (1937-1945) sought to resist japan in World War 2. |
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| Name given by the Japanese to the puppet regime they established in Manchuria in 1932. The Japanese placed the deposed Qing emperor Puyi as ?chief executive? of the government and retained control of the area until end of wwII |
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| refers to the kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek by the warlord Zhang Xueliang in xian. Attempting to force chiang to agree to the united chinese effort against the Japanese. Zhang held chiang until negotiations between the guomindang and ccp resulted in chiangs release on Christmas day. |
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| Spread by Lin Biao (loyal military general to mao). In attempts to help Mao gather support and obtain control over the party and military. |
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| An international communist organization formed in Moscow in March, 1919: Helped establish the Chinese Communist Party in 1921; helped to form the first united front between the Chinese Communist Party and KMT; Led to the northern expedition against the warlords |
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| formed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty from 1916-1927 , During this period in china there was no central power in total control of the country. Each warlord controlled an area because of the loyalty of the armed forces to the warlord in this area. |
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| issued by japan in January 1915, japan exerted control over Manchuria and demanded economic rights, the right to station police and economic advisers in Manchuria. They also demanded major economic concessions. Yuan Shikai accepted the terms of the demands much to the dismay of the young revolutionaries in China. |
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| The old customs, cultures ,habits and old ideas of China. In 1966 the red guards were mobilized to destroy these ?four olds? |
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| Encompasses positive and negative aspects on which people were motivated.During the Great leap forward it stood for (ratsflies,mosquitoes and sparrows); massive number of sparrows were killed, causin ecological imbalance in the environment. |
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| established by Chen Duxiu ( big roles in ?may Fourth movement? and new cultural movement ) it was an influential magazine in the 1910s and 1920s. began supporting communistic ideas and goals and had a huge influence on many leaders of the Chinese Communist Party |
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| Wrote the little red book and was faithful to Mao. Military leader who helped turn the PLA in to a conventional modern army: succeeded Peng Dehuai in 1958 as Minister of defense. Named to be Mao?s successor in 1969 and died in an airplane crash in 1971. |
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| After WW1(1918), when most Chinese expected to retrieve Shandong from Germany as a reward for helping to win the war. Treaty of Versailles was signed without the consent of the Chinese to give Shandong to Japan. Was one of the beginning?s of the may fourth Movement. |
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