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- 5. The failure of the Great Leap Forward damaged Mao’s this.
- 7. Targets of this from the Red Guards included government officials, artists, intellectuals, and others who were said to embrace “old” ideas.
- 9. China was torn by this after WWII. (two words)
- 12. Relations with them became strained after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953.
- 14. The revolution China was soon engulfed in a wave of revolutionary turmoil in.
- 16. Radical student groups that took to the streets demanding a return to communist ideals. (two words)
- 17. In February 1950, Mao and Stalin sealed their alliance by signing this. (three words)
- 19. In 1950, Chinese forces did this to Tibet, a land with a long history of Chinese influence.(three words)
- 20. In 1950, the government passed a land reform law to break up large these and distribute land to poor peasants.
- 21. Under Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union chose to distance itself further, cutting this off from China and ending their alliance.
- 23. These Chinese people were granted equal rights and given a greater role in production.
- 24. The Great Leap Forward plan was a disaster and by 1962, around 30 million Chinese had died of this - the largest famine in human history.
- 25. Mao placed power in the hands of the Communist Party and began to restructure the economy based on these types of principles.
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- 1. The government also socialized this by putting most factories under state ownership.
- 2. Mao and his followers believed these, not urban workers, were the revolutionary class.
- 3. In 1953, the government began a Five-Year Plan designed to do this to the country and to increase industrial production.
- 4. The United States intervened and provided this to defend Taiwan and its Nationalist government. (four words)
- 6. With the Communists in power, American officials had initially held out hope that China would do this to Soviet influence and remain neutral in the Cold War.
- 8. Facing mounting criticism, Mao eventually stepped down from this position.
- 10. Mao's 1958 plan to set higher targets for both agriculture and industry. (three words)
- 11. In 1966, Mao called on students to revive China’s revolutionary this.
- 13. Another name for larger collective farms.
- 15. Led by Mao Zedong, eventually won, and founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
- 18. The balance of this in Eurasia was clearly tilting toward the communists.
- 22. Political struggles continued until after Mao's this in 1976.
