Assignment 17-2
Communists Take Power in China
Summarize the Reforms Mao Zedong proposed for China.
Aspect of Life
Agriculture
Reform
Industry
Family
Answer the following questions:
1. Who…
Was Chiang Kai Shek (A.K.A. Jang Jieshi)?
Was Mao Zedong?
Were the Red Guards?
2. When…
Did the Civil War begin?
Did the Civil War end?
Did Mao die?
3. What…
Advantages did Nationalist forces have?
Advantages did Communist forces have?
Was the Red Guards objective?
4. Where…
Is the People’s Republic of China located?
Is Nationalist China located?
5. How…
Did the U.S. & USSR react to the existence of two Chinas?
Did Mao l transform the economy of China?
6. Why…
Did the Great Leap Forward fail?
Did Mao Launch the Cultural Revolution?
Main Idea:
1. What policies or actions enabled the Communists to defeat the Nationalists in their long
civil war?
2. What was the “Great Leap Forward”?