History Practice Test
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- Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Tanks rolled in... and many students were killed...
- Student Demonstrations of 1989
- During this time, lasting about six weeks, students held rallies, sang songs, and many went on hunger strikes to show their grievances against the CCP for not hearing their demands.
- Mao Zedong
- Ordered the Hundred Flowers campaign.
- Deng Xiaoping
- He ordered martial law (and later tanks and armed patrols) when he realized that the protestors were not backing down.
- Anti-Rightist Campaign
- As a result of this directive, many intellectuals were sent to labor camps or jail; however some people committed suicide and some were executed.
- Jiang Qing
- Along with Mao, this person, the leader of the Gang of Four, orchestrated a campaign against Zhou Enlai.
- Zhou Enlai
- He unsuccessfully tried to save Liu Shao-qi's life.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Because this person was visiting Deng Xiaoping and China, the world press was in Beijing. However, the students gained more attention than the summit.
- Deng Xiaoping
- Mao asked him to lead the anti-rightist movement.
- Mao Zedong
- Became the leader of the Long March.
- Student Demonstrations of 1978
- Through articles, poems, and pictures, people used "Democracy Wall" to express their grievances about the Cultural Revolution. At first Deng Xiaoping allowed it, but when people started to criticize the CCP, Deng ordered it taken down.
- Cooperatives
- Under this successful directive, families pooled their land and worked together for the first time.
- Northern Expedition
- This was a campaign to unite the country and defeat the warlords.
- Huo Guofeng
- After Mao died in September, 1976, this person led China for a short time. He is best known for arresting the Gang of Four.
- Student Demonstrations of 1989
- After a former high government official died, students went to Tiananmen Square where they hoped to gain free speech and the right to form student unions; they also wanted corruption to end.
- Zhao Ziyang
- Hu Yaobong, and this person, helped Deng Xiaoping develop a new plan to boost the economy.
- Second Five-Year Plan
- As a result of this failed directive, Mao first went into hiding, and then later he launched the Cultural Revolution.
- Long March
- As a result, Mao became the leader of the communists at the new base, Yenan.
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Asked the communists to help them (the nationalists) to fight the warlords.
- Liu Shao-qi
- After Mao decided to withdraw from day to day government (probably because his latest campaign failed), this person successfully led China for many years.
- United Front (first)
- This ended when Chiang Kai-shek ordered a surprise attack on the communists in Shanghai (1927).
- Mao Zedong
- This person was successful when he asked the Red Guards and the Rebels to stop fighting.
- Jiang Qing
- This person called for the death of Liu Shao-qi, saying "He should die of 1,000 cuts!"
- Second Five-Year Plan
- As a result of this directive, many villiages came together to form massive communes.
- Hu Yaobong
- His death sparked the student demonstrations of 1989.
- Cultural Revolution
- Because Mao had many failed campaigns, he started his last initiative in 1966; it was also a tremendous failure, and it is estimated that about 400,000 people were killed.
- Second Five-Year Plan
- At first people were highly enthusiastic about this directive; flags flew in the fields, people sang songs and shouted slogans. However, their enthusiasm faded when they realized that the worked night and day, and they didn't get to spend much time with their family.
- Zhou Enlai
- After this person died, Mao ordered all of the wreaths be taken away.
- First Five-Year Plan
- As a result of this directive, improvements were made on banking system and trade.
- Zhou Enlai
- At the Annual Festival Honoring the Dead, thousands of mourners went to Tiananmen Square to pay their respect to this man, who died earlier in January, 1976.
- Deng Xiaoping
- This person came to power after he forced Huo Guofeng to step down.
- United Front (second)
- This ended when nationalist forces attacked a communist unit (1941).
- Hu Yaobong
- On January 1st, 1987 he stepped in to help the students who had protested in late 1986 who might have otherwise been jailed.
- Lin Biao
- Mao appointed him to be his successor before he died in a "plane crash."
- Deng Xiaoping
- Although he was once exiled to a remote village, he later became a very high government official.
- Zhou Enlai
- This person was not successful when he asked the Red Guards and the Rebels to stop fighting.
- Cultural Revolution
- As a result of this directive, many former Red Guards were sent to the countryside to become reeducated by the peasants.
- Anti-Rightist Campaign
- As a counter-attack in this directive, Mao branded many intellectuals as rightists.
- Margaret Thatcher
- This person came to an understanding with Deng Xiaoping and agreed to "one country with two systems," when they discussed the future of Hong Kong.
- Hu Yaobong
- With Deng Xiaoping's support, this person tried to get older CCP members to retire, and he tried to loosen the control over the people; he listened to many of the students' ideas when he visited with them in 1986 and 1987.
- Lin Biao
- He collected Mao's works and published, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, also known as "The Little Red Book."
- Student Demonstrations of 1986
- In Shanghai and other cities, students started to ask for changes. They wanted the right to nominate candidates in local elections, they wanted better rights on campuses, and they wanted a say in the jobs that they would have after they graduated.
- Second Five-Year Plan
- Under this directive, people gave up everything made from metal in order to donate it to the people who were "making steel" in their backyard furnaces. Of course, this failed.
- Hundred Flowers Campaign
- As a result of this directive, intellectuals spoke out against foreign books being banned.
- Chiang Kai-shek
- The nationalists kidnapped him, in part, because he didn't want to team up with the communists against Japan.
- Second Five-Year Plan
- As a result, there was a three-year famine and 30 million people died.
- Long March
- Communists retreated from the nationalists, walking 17 miles a day and totalling about 6,000 miles; 95% of the communists died, but those who lived grew stronger.
- Hundred Flowers Campaign
- As a result of this directive, intellectuals said that teachers were not qualified, medical research was behind, and the communist government was corrupt and insufficient.
- Hundred Flowers Campaign
- Under this directive, Mao encouraged intellectuals to voice their grievances with the government.
- First Five-Year Plan
- As a result of this directive, the production of coal, iron, and steel increased.
- Shanghai Communiqué
- In this agreement, President Richard Nixon and Mao decided to open communication between China and the United States.
- United Front (first)
- As a result of this directive, the communists joined forces with the nationalists to defeat the warlords.
- Sun Yat-sen
- First leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party.
- United Front (second)
- As a result of this directive, the communists joined forces with the nationalists to fight Japan.
- Liu Shao-qi
- Before Deng Xiaoping came to power, this person created incentives for the peasants by allowing them to keep excess grain to eat or sell.
- Anti-Rightist Campaign
- Although sources vary (300,000 to 550,000 or 1 million), about 10% of the population were labeled rightists as a result of this directive.
- Household Responsibility System
- Because the communes resulted in famine, Deng Xiaoping started this successful initiative; people were able to eat and some made a little extra money.
- Collectives
- Under this failed directive, land was worked by an entire villiage. Many people lost income.
- Liu Shao-qi
- This person was once a high government official; when Mao decided to return to power, this person was attacked, beaten, ordered to house arrest, and then he died in a remote prison.
- Deng Xiaoping
- This person led the movement to free people who had been sent to labor as a result of the Cultural Revolution.