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| After Zheng He’s exploration the Chinese did not communicate or trade with other countries. |
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| A drug the British were selling to China |
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| War fought between China and the British because the British refused to stop selling Opium to China. |
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| Agreement signed between China and British to end the Opium War. It was “unfair” towards China. |
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| The British did not have to follow Chinese Laws while they were in China. |
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| An area where only a specific foreign country could trade in China. |
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| The U.S. wanted to be able to trade in a countries Sphere of Influence and pay a tax. The countries who had spheres refused. |
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| Taiping Rebellion 1839-1864 |
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| A Chinese group attacked their own government because they were made at them because foreigners had Sphere’s of Influence. |
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| Chinese group that attacked the foreigners in China. |
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| A group of countries that work together (sometimes in a military force) |
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| Started a Revolution in 1911 and tried to promote 3 principles (nationalism, democracy, livelihood) |
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| Took over for Sun Yat Sen but did not follow his three principles – he lost to the Communists and fled to China |
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| Chinese Civil War 1921-1949 |
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| Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang fought against the Mao Zedong and the Communists. The Communists won. |
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| Leader of the Communists who took over China in 1949. His most infamous policies were the Great Leap Forward and the Long March |
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| When the communists were being chased throughout China by the Kuomintang. It is the turning point because the Communists got the Peasants on their side. |
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Everyone is equal
Make same amount of money no matter what job you have.
Government controls all the products and gives them to the people. |
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| Mao’s plan to catch up to the rest of the world in one “Giant Leap” by making communes and backyard furnaces |
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| Huge state farms that the peasants were forced to work on and send all the food to the cities. |
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| People in were told they must make steel in furnaces in their backyards. |
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| A minimum amount that most be produced in a given time to receive credit/food |
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| Government decides what gets on newspaper, T.V. and radio |
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| Government makes everything look like things are going well to make people think things are good in their country. |
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| Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 |
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| Mao’s attempt to get rid of anti-revolutionaries he put many educated people in jail, gave out little red books and created the Red Guard |
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| Mao’s successor whose plan was the Four Modernizations |
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| Deng Xioping’s economic plan to catch China up to the rest of the world. It had ideas of capitalism |
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| Places where foreign companies can come to China, create factories and use China’s cheap labor |
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| Tiananmen Square Massacre |
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| Deng Xioping sent troops into Tiananmen Square where students were protesting and them removed and some were injured and killed. |
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| To try and slow overpopulation China only allows couples to have one child. |
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| When a company goes to a place like India or China to use the citizens as cheap labor. |
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