Honors History of East Asia

Communist Dictatorships – Review Guide

On this test you will be required to write two extended paragraphs. Each one will be worth 15 points.

Be able to answer the following:

1. Describe, with specific examples how values emblematic of the larger culture are taught in preschools in each of the following cultures: America, Japan, and China.

2. Describe, with specific examples from the film To Live, the following eras in post-WWII China: the Civil War and the establishment of communism, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

3. Describe the causes, events, and effects of the Cultural Revolution.

4. Compare and contrast contemporary North Korea to China during the Cultural Revolution.

Be able to identify the following terms:

1. The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960)

2. The Great Famine (The Disaster of 1959) (1959-1961)

3. The Cultural Revolution

4. Mao Zedong

5. Liu Shaoqi

6. Zhou Enlai

7. Deng Xiaoping

8. Revisionism

9. Jiang Qing

10. PLA

11. Lin Biao

12. Lin Biao’s death

13. “Quotations of Chairman Mao”

14. The Little Red Book

15. Cult of Personality

16. Red Guards

17. “Its Right to Rebel”

18. Dazibao

19. Struggle Meetings

20. Cultural Revolution Propaganda

21. The Gang of Four

22. Sino-American Rapprochement

23. Chinese Nuclear Capability

24. The Tiananmen Incident 1976

25. The Death of Mao

26. To Live

27. Zhang Yimou

28. Fugui

29. Jiazhen

30. Fengxia

31. Yongqing

32. Wan Er’xi

33. Long’er

34. Chengsheng

35. Mr. Niu

36. Totalitarianism

37. DPRK

38. “The Hermit Kingdom”

39. The People’s Army

40. 3 Roles of the Military in North Korea

41. Spartan

42. “The Great Leader”

43. Suryong

44. Kim Il-sung

45. “The Dear Leader”

46. Kim Jong-Il

47. Juche

48. Kidnapping of Japanese

49. Forced Labor Camps

50. State Sponsored Heroin Trade