Cultural Revolution

The cultural revolution in China was a movement launched by Mao Zedong to maintain revolutionary enthusiasm and transform China

• True

• False

The cultural revolution occured between the years

• 1964-1974

• 1966-1976

• 1958-1962

• 1970-1980

The Cultural Revolution aimed to transform China culturally only

• True

• False

One of the key aims of the Cultural Revolution was to reassert Mao Zedongs political power in China

• True

• False

Mao Zedong was unhappy with the economic policies of other CCP politicians - Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi - he labelled these people 'revisionists'. Mao used the cultural revolution to remove these politicians from power

• True

• False

Which of these is NOT an aim of the Cultural Revolution

• To remove the damaging record of the failed Great Leap Forward

• Eradicate 'anti-revolutionary' ideas that were capitalist and bourgeois in China

• To improve China's economic situation

• Ignite the revolutionary spirit in China and continue the idea of permanant revolution

Which below is NOT a method Mao used to establish the Cultural Revolution

• His cult of personality

• Radicalised youth and students

• Maoist ideological thought via the Little Red Book

• Financial incentives given to his followers

Mao stated 'It is right to rebel' in order to radicalise the Chinese youth into joining and starting the Cultural revolution

• True

• False

The Red Guards were..

• the personal bodyguards of Mao Zedong

• a secret service for China

• a mass student-led paramilitary social movement who were mobilised by Mao Zedong and followed his ideologies

The Red Guards were used by Mao and his supporters to transform China towards socialism

• True

• False