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Mao's Consolidation of Power

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    Which problem were these measures intended to solve?

    · Tried to work with the “national bourgeoisie”. Compensated owners of nationalized industries and left them in place as managers in the short term.

    · Hired 10,000 Soviet advisors.

    · First Five Year Plan 1953-1957 (drawn up in 1952)

    - Targets: coal, steel, petrochemicals, automobile and transport industry

    - Several spectacular civil engineering projects, ie road and rail bridge across the Yangzi at Nanjing - According to statistics, the plan exceeded targets in most areas. (These statistics are suspect, but the achievements are nonetheless impressive, especially considering the percentage of the budget going to finance the war effort .) In addition, we need to remember that part of the increase was natural recovery from the civil war and WWII.

    - Economic growth rate of 9% between 1952-57

    Agricultural production had fallen 35% over the years of war.

    Industrial production had fallen 50% over the years of war.

    Inflation was 1000% in 1949, (made worse by the fact that all the gold reserves had been taken to Taiwan.)

    China wasn’t recognized by most foreign powers. Its only ally was the USSR.

    They did not yet have full control of China. – Tibet and Xinjiang had never really been fully controlled even by the Qing, and had been doing their own thing since 1911. There were still GMD elements in Guangdong.

  • 2. Multiple Choice
    2 minutes
    1 pt

    Which problem were these measures intended to solve?

    1950-51 “Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”, and CCP control established in Xinjiang and Guangdong

    A new system of government was established, dominated by the CCP.

    Agricultural production had fallen 35% over the years of war.

    Industrial production had fallen 50% over the years of war.

    Inflation was 1000% in 1949, (made worse by the fact that all the gold reserves had been taken to Taiwan.)

    China wasn’t recognized by most foreign powers. Its only ally was the USSR.

    They did not yet have full control of China. – Tibet and Xinjiang had never really been fully controlled even by the Qing, and had been doing their own thing since 1911. There were still GMD elements in Guangdong.

  • 3. Multiple Choice
    2 minutes
    1 pt

    Which problem were these measures intended to solve?

    Help from USSR:

    -1950 Treaty of Friendship Alliance and Mutual Assistance

    - Soviet Aid was a loan, not a gift, and they charged interest

    - China had to take out high interest loans to pay for the 10,000 Soviet Advisors

    - China had to pay through the nose for Soviet arms during Korean War

    War with USA

    -1950-53 Chinese and Americans fight each other in the Korean War

    1950- c. 1972 Chinese school children taught to view USA as the "number one enemy"

    This involved chanting "Death to the American imperialists and all their running dogs" every day before classes.

    Agricultural production had fallen 35% over the years of war.

    Industrial production had fallen 50% over the years of war.

    Inflation was 1000% in 1949, (made worse by the fact that all the gold reserves had been taken to Taiwan.)

    China wasn’t recognized by most foreign powers. Its only ally was the USSR.

    They did not yet have full control of China. – Tibet and Xinjiang had never really been fully controlled even by the Qing, and had been doing their own thing since 1911. There were still GMD elements in Guangdong.

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