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Crash Course World History #37 - Communists, Nationalists, and China’s Revolutions
1. What two reasons do we not hear a lot about China’s 1911
revolution?
2. How did China’s 1911 revolution begin?
3. How was China’s new government organized?
4. What happened upon Yuan Shikai’s death in 1916?
5. What is the period in Chinese history between 1912 and 1949 sometimes called? Who were the main
parties involved?
6. Who won the Civil War between the Communists and the Nationalists?
7. What are three important points of the Civil War between the Communists and the Nationalists?
8. What was the purpose of the rectification program?
9. What happened on October 1, 1949?
10. What did the People’s Republic of China promise? Did they protect any of those rights?
11. Summarize some of the campaigns of the People’s Republic of China.
12. What is Mao’s Great Leap Forward?
13. Between 1959 and 1962, how many people died as a result of lack of food?
14. What was the Cultural Revolution?
15. What is the legacy of China’s two revolutions?