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- 2. Chinese military and political leader who joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang, or KMT) in 1918. Succeeding party founder Sun Yat-sen as KMT leader in 1925, he expelled Chinese communists from the party and led a successful unification of China.
- 4. The official ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. It was derived from the writings of Mao Zedong and his adaptations of Marxism and Chinese political philosophy. Some of the core principles include the importance of peasants as a revolutionary force, a focus on the ‘mass line’ and the adaptation of communism to Chinese conditions.
- 6. The 6000-mile retreat through China of Chinese communists and the Red Army in 1934–35, led by Mao Tse-Tung.
- 7. the peasantry were forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms. The process was ultimately undertaken in conjunction with the campaign to industrialize China rapidly.
- 8. a member of a Chinese Communist youth organization committed to the militant support of Mao Tse-Tung.
- 9. An economic and social campaign in China from 1958 to 1962, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern socialist society.
- 10. China’s last imperial dynasty. Ruled from 1644 until the abdication of Emperor Puyi in 1912.
- 14. Another name for the Kuomintang.
- 15. a family of rulers that are in power in a country; the period of time when a country is led by members of the same family.
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- 1. This campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows is also known as the smash sparrows campaign.
- 2. A period of intense political and social turmoil in China during the 1960s, marked by widespread destruction of cultural artifacts, violent class struggle, mass repression, and social upheaval.
- 3. an extreme shortage of food for a large amount of people over a long period of time.
- 5. a Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and, from 1949 to 1959, the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China.
- 11. An agricultural laborer or poor farmer.
- 12. A political party that advocates a system of government based on collective ownership and control of property and the means of production.
- 13. A term used during the Cultural Revolution by the student-led Red Guards in the People's Republic of China in reference to the pre-communist elements of Chinese culture they attempted to destroy ((old ideas, habits, customs, and culture).