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Social Studies China
China
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Religious Studies
7th Grade
01/11/2010

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Great leap foward

 

Definition
a effort to try and modernize China
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Cultural Revolution
Definition
struggle for power started with the head communists
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Red Guards
Definition
helped mass rallies to support Mao
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Jiang Qing
Definition
Mao's widow
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Responsibility System
Definition
a system made to raise food production and increase government power
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collective farm
Definition
the members would work and get a share of the harvest
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commune
Definition
several villages, thousands of arcres of land
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capitalism

 

Definition
free market economy
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proletariat
Definition
indutstrial working class
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totalitarian state
Definition
has a government that controls every aspect of their peopls lives
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propaganda
Definition
the spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an apposing cause
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human rights
Definition

•China has bad human rights

•having bad human rights has hurt China's relationship with us

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World trade organizations
Definition
•international agency that regulates global trade
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Hong Kong
Definition
•China now owns Hong Kong
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Japan
Definition

•Japan's invation hurt Japan and China's relationship

•after awile China started to trust Japan again

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Veitnam
Definition
•China helped Veitnam during the war
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Taiwan
Definition
•China thinks they rule Taiwan
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What were the effects of the cultural revolution?

 

Definition

1) chaos in China

2) schools closed

3) facturies slowed production

4) Red Gaurds formed

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What were the effects of the Great Leap foward?

 

Definition

1) lead to disaster

2) pesants started to resist commune systems

3) food production fell

4) floods and droughts

5) millions of people died

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What were the Four Modernizations?
Definition

1) modernising agriculture

2) expanding industry

3) developing science and technology

4) upgrading China's defence forces

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