Political Geography of China CFU

1. What Event? 2. Communist Leader?

Vs. Nationalists (Chiang Kai-shek)

3. What event???

•  Mao Zedong losing popularity and needs to reassert control

•  Goal to destroy anything Western & revive commie enthusiasm

4. What event???

•  Soviet-style economic planning (5yr plans)

•  Collective farms •  Huge factories •  Massive failure – 30

million starve

•  EPIC FAILURE!!!

5. What event???

•  2000 students killed during a Pro-Democracy rally

•  http://youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ

6. What Academic Vocab term??? •  coastal areas where

foreign companies are allowed to operate

•  Foreigners get low cost labor

•  China gets economic boost/know how

7. What Academic Vocab term???

•  15 mil. sent to farms for in work camps

•  Those wise enough to realize the Cultural Revolution was bogus were the best candidates

8. What Event???

•  Chinese rebel against European “spheres of influence”

•  European forces crush rebellion

9. What Academic Vocabulary Term??? Farmers owed a crop quota to the government but

could sell the rest for a profit

10. What Academic Vocabulary Term???

•  Economic shift to capitalism (personal freedom) •  Govt remains communist (little personal freedom)