Global Academy World Cultures
Asia Unit 2023
Communist Revolution in China
Learning Targets for this assignment are:
● I can explain what communism is and how it affects different groups in society
● I can analyze the impact of the Great Leap Forward on Chinese Society.
● I can explain what the Chinese government is like now.
Answer the questions below from information received in class , these slides and in class video which are also
linked below. Once you have completed the assignment submit it via an URL link in Canvas.
Slide Question Answer
China Revolution 1. What is communism? It is the belief that everyone should
Slides be economically and socially equal,
3 and that the government should
provide people with the jobs,
goods, and other basic necessities
they need to live their life.
4 2.Who are the founders of communism? 1 Karl Marx (wrote manifesto in the
year wisconsin became a state)
2 Friedrich Engels
4 3.What are the four pieces of the theory of 1 The proletariat (working class) to
communism? seize power through revolutionary
actions
2 The abolition of social classes
3 Equal distribution of wealth
4 Scientific socialism: social
development happened in stages,
and communism was the final stage
5 4.What does seize the means of production mean? Way or method of production
lecture
6 5.What party in China did the Communists go Nationalist party (Guomindang)
(View full screen) against?
6 6.What country invaded China during WWII that Japan invaded China.
helped pave the way for the Communist takeover
in 1949?
7 7.What is the Great Leap Forward? An economic and social campaign
led by the Chinese Communist Party
1958 to 1962. Mao Zedong took over.
8-10 8.-15.What are the two components of communist development in China?
Collectivization (Slide 8) Industrialization (Slide 9)
Goal: Redistribute land in the Goal: Big factory, they wanted to beat
countryside, and make agriculture more the UK.
productive under state control. (Big
Farms)
How did it work? Make larger areas rather How did it work? Had people live close
than little areas. (Big Farms) together and live close together
Outcome: (Slide 10) Outcome: (Slide 10) It also failed, because
It failed and there was a famine and it of the food
caused the industrialization to fail.
11 16.What was the cultural revolution? An attempt to combat the capitalist
tendencies in China, and within the
CCP.
15 17.What were the effects of the cultural Anyone who was part of the “black
revolution? group” was gone after and harmed.
(arrest, torture, public humiliation,
killings
15 18.Who were the victims of the cultural Landlords, rich farmers,
revolution? counter-revolutionaries, bad
influencers, right-wingers
16 19.-22.What were the four major reforms under Reform One
Deng Xiaoping? Wanted to ease up the rules that
were enforced during the Great
Leap Forward and Cultural
Revolution
Reform Two
Rapid dismantling of collectivized
agriculture
Reform Three
He gradually privatized the
industry
Reform Four
He opened economy to the world,
welcomed foreign investment
17 23.Who is China’s current leader? Xi Jinping
17 24.How long is China’s current leader allowed to Forever
stay in power?
18 25.What percent of toys does China make for the 49%
U.S.?
19 26.What is happening to China’s GDP compared to It’s higher, and it’s growing while
the U.S and E.U.? the US and the EU is going down.
21 27.Of the downsides of China’s economic boom, Overcrowding, crime,
what issue is a global issue? environmental pollution, Social and
economic inequality, corruption
China’s Trillion Dollar 28.-30.What are 3 facts you learned from the 1 Belt road initiative follows the
Plan (5:58) video? path of the silk road.
2 Costs 4-8 trillion dollars.
23 3 There is a great risk of debt with
the belt road
China is trying to control economy
and military
