Communism in China

• Mao Zedong was the First Leader of the People's Republic of China.

  
• Sun Yat-Sen was the First President for the Republic of China

  
• Deng Xiaopeng was the Leader of the PRC; changed China into a mixed economy.

  
• Republic of China: The ROC was established by Sun Yat-Sen; part of the 1911 Chinese Revolution.

  
• Chiang Kai-shek: Leader of the KMT; fought Mao during the Chinese Civil War.

  
• Kuomintang: The KMT was a political party founded by Sun Yat-sen; Leading political party of ROC.

  
• People's Republic of China: The PRC was a communist nation established in 1949; Led by Mao after the Chinese civil war.

  
• Great Leap Forward: Mao's plan to increase the agricultural and industrial output. Led to the greatest famines in history.
• Chinese Cultural Revolution: Launched by Mao in hopes of promoting a revolutionary spirit among young Chinese.
• Little Red Book: A book circulated throughout China during Mao's reign.
• Command Economy: Production is determined by a central government.
• Mixed Economy: an economic system combining private and public enterprise.
• Four Modernizations: Agricultural, Science/Technology, Industry and Defense.
• Chinese Communist Party: A Political party that was controlling party of the People's Republic of China.
• Chinese Civil War: War between communist Mao and nationalist Chiang-Kai Shek. Communists took over and Nationalists fled to Taiwan.
• Taiwan: an island where the KMT fled after the Chinese Civil War.
• The Long March: the 6,000-mile flight of Chinese communists from southeastern to northeastern China.
• Tiananmen Square Massacre: Political and social protest by University students in Beijing caused military force to be involved resulting in major casualties.
• Red Guards: youth of Cultural Revolution in China.
• Collectivization: system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government