Question

Exam: 08.02

Answer 1

1) Mao Zedong relied on China's huge population for the Great Leap Forward to succeed. The main goal that Mao set about the Great Leap forward is to make a socialist society out of People's Republic of China with the power of industrialization and collectivization. Therefore, the more people, the better for forming a huge society with its brand new ideology.

2)  The famous photograph reflects the Tiananmen Square incident through showing the determination of the protestors and how the Chinese military overwhelmed them. Even though the protesters that gathered all over Beijing's Tiananmen Square had a lot of bravery and spirit to confront China's communist rulers, this movement led to the countless losses. All this was caused by coolness of the military forces and their blind faith in communism ideology.

3)  The Cultural Revolution was caused by the strong influence and inflexibility of communist ideology. This sociopolitical movement took place with Mao Zwdong as a leader and its main goal was to get rid of all the capitalist and traditional elements in order to make China a truly communist country.

4) The Chinese government failed to invest in industrialization. This question is meant to reflect the consequences of big Mao’s plans and ambitions towards new society of China. The only thing which China came to after Great Leap is a widespread famine. This happened because Mao wanted to make China a republic with modern communist society instead of previous status of agrarian country.

5) According to the comment that Zhou made during a discussion with U.S. President Richard Nixon on February 23, 1972, the answer is : It refused to debate its policies with foreign countries. These lines by Zhou best support the idea of the chosen option 'We of course support revolutions raged by the peoples of the world, but we don't send a single soldier abroad.'

6) A  giant ear of corn represented in Chinese propaganda poster was a symbol of a future harvest that would grow due to the hard work of the Chinese people. So the answer to this question must be : The communist-organized commune system, represented by the locomotive, will produce a large agricultural output, represented by the huge ear of corn

7)  The accurate statement about the Chinese Civil War is The Nationalists lost because the Communists convinced many rural Chinese to revolt against the Nationalists. The political party of China, which is called The Kuomintang, chose nationalism as a basis of ideology and this choice caused a split in ideological interests between two parties because Communist Party of China supported communism flow.

8) The way how the one-child policy resulted in large numbers of undocumented Chinese is shown there : After their first child, many mothers hid any other children they had, thereby causing them to be undocumented. People did not support the idea of new population policy, and deceived government by keeping children in secret, non registered. So this policy changed nothing but producing plenty of labour force for factories.