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History, Social Studies
11th -
University
IBDP History Authoritarian States - Mao
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- 1. Multiple Choice
According to Jung Chang and Dan Halliday, Mao became one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
True
False
- 2. Multiple Choice
According to Chung and Halliday, why was the Long March successful for the Reds and Mao?
Jieshi allowed the Reds to escape
Jieshi was an incompetent military commander
Mao planned a number of deceptions for Jieshi
Mao was an excellent military commander
- 3. Multiple Choice
Mao took power over China in which year?
1945
1947
1949
1951
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of these events allowed people to criticise Mao?
Rectification Campaign
Three-Antis Campaign
Five-Antis Campaign
Hundred Flowers Campaign
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why did Stalin support both the CCP and GMD during the 1930s?
He wanted both to fight each other for years.
He wanted them both to fight Japan so it would not attack the USSR.
He wanted to find out which was stronger for an ally
He didn't.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The 1935 Zunyi Conference is generally accepted as the time ...
Otto Braun took over the Party.
Mao became the leader of the CCP.
the CCP and GMD agreed to work together to fight Japan.
Mao was blamed for civil war defeats.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The Rectification Movement from 1941 to 1944 was designed by Mao to...
usurp Jiang Jieshi by turning his supporters.
gain support from the peasants before the future civil war.
coordinate all CCP resources to fight Japan.
purify the Party ideologically according to his thinking.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which European country was the sole ally of Mao's China in the 1960s and 1970s?
Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Albania
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which historian wrote that although Mao was able to impose terror on his people, he also 'had a capacity for exciting the most loyalty and admiration'?
Jung Chang
Frank Dikotter
Michael Lynch
Anthony Beevor
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which event may have led to Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign?
1954 Constitution
Khrushchev's DeStalinisation speech
Korean War
Three Antis Campaign
- 11. Multiple Choice
What was NOT a cause of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s?
Marxism was a proletariat ideology.
Mao's victory in the Chinese Civil War
Khrushchev's deStalinisation speech.
Mao criticised Khrushchev's handling of Cuba.
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Three-antis campaign targeted...
Foreigners, conservatives and liberals
Revisionists, capitalists and the bourgeoisie
Nationalists, tax evasion and treason
Corruption, waste and bureaucratism (laziness)
- 13. Multiple Choice
Whose idea was the Little Red Book?
Zhou Enlai
Liu Shao-chi
Lin Biao
Chairman Mao
- 14. Multiple Choice
When did China detonate its first nuclear bomb?
1958
1962
1964
1967
- 15. Multiple Choice
According to Frank Dikotter, how many people died during the Great Leap Forward?
8 million
25 million
35 million
45 million
- 16. Multiple Choice
What did Mao NOT introduce for women?
Abolition of footbinding.
Men could not have mistresses.
Women had to agree to be married.
Prostitution was outlawed.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Jiang Qing was ...
a leading figure in the Great leap Forward
a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution
Mao's second wife
an actress from Yenan.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The skirmish over Zhenbao Island in 1969 was between China and ...
Soviet Union
Taiwan
USA
Vietnam
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which leading CCP figure died in a plane crash whilst fleeing Mao?
Liu Shao-chi
Peng Dehuai
Zhou Enlai
Lin Biao
- 20. Multiple Choice
Who tried to negotiate a compromise between Mao and Jiang Jieshi during the Chinese Civil War?
Winston Churchill
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Jong-il
George Marshall
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