Whap Ch. 35 Terms Flashcards

358253878	May 4th Movement	acceptance at Versailles of Japanese gains in China during World War I led to demonstrations and the beginning of a movement to create a liberal democracy.	0
358253879	Chiang Kai-shek	leader of the Guomindang from 1925; contested with the communists for control of China until defeated in 1949.	1
358253880	Long March	Communist retreat from Hunan under Guomindang pressure in 1934; shifted center of Communist power to Shaanxi province.	2
358253881	Mass Line	economic policy of Mao Zedong inaugurated in 1955; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives that then became farming collectives in 1956; peasants lost land gained a few years earlier..	3
358253882	Great Leap Forward	economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960.	4
358253883	Red Guard	student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies.	5
358253884	Gang of Four	Jiang Qing and her allies who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong; arrested and sentenced to life in prison.	6
358253885	Tayson Rebellion	peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the 1770s; toppled the Nguyen and the Trinh dynasties.	7
358253886	Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ai Quoc)	shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful United States intervention in Vietnam.	8
358253887	Viet Minh	Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during Word War II and the French afterwards.	9
358253888	Viet Cong	the Communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese war.	10
358253889	Cultural Revolution	initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance over the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; called off in 1968.	11