Communism in China

Mao Zedong set up a totalitarian state called the People’s Republic of China.

• True

• False

Mistakes like the Great Leap Forward left many Chinese unhappy with capitalism.

• True

• False

Mao took land from the peasants and gave it to landlords.

• True

• False

Mao believed that if the government controlled industry, poverty would end and everyone would be equal.

• True

• False

In communes, people worked together in large factories.

• True

• False

Under Mao Zedong, China’s ___________ business improved drastically.

• coal

• electric

• steel

• all of these

In the great famine, ___________ of Chinese people starved to death.

• hundreds

• thousands

• millions

• billions

Plan designed by Mao where farmers would work together on large farms called communes.

• Great Leap Forward

• The Great Plague

• Cultural Revolution

• Capitalist People's Republic of China

A movement to renew the revolutionary spirit in China.

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Capitalist People's Republic of China

• The Great Purge

Mao Zedong set up a _______________________ state called the People's Republic of China.

• totalitarian

• democratic

• republic

• theocratic