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HST303 L12 CR
China, Japan & East Asia in World History - Lecture 12: The Cultural Revolution
Question | Answer |
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Over the next few years, Mao became more and more suspicious of people, particularly those implementing more _____ campaigns. | realistic |
Mao believed revisionists and so-called capitalist roaders in high positions in the PRC were _____ his revolution. | sabotaging |
Mao’s suspicion set the stage for his _____ _____ _____ _____: purge all of previous tradition and culture. | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
By 1966, Mao, his wife, and a number of radical followers encouraged _____ to promote a Maoist vision of revolution through _____ protest. | students; street |
The students organized themselves into groups called _____ _____. | Red Guards |
Millions of students joined the action, and free _____ _____ led them to get everywhere in the country. | rail passes |
With this initiative, Mao wanted to regain _____ of his revolution. | control |
Any form of _____-_____ culture was to be eliminated. | non-socialist |
The Red Guards destroyed art, _____, music recordings, _____ and _____ artifacts, and museums. | libraries; historic; religious |
Revolutionary model _____ were created. | operas |
The _____ and _____ of teachers, professors, and intellectuals were commonplace. | humiliation; beatings |
Violence and torture were everywhere and became worse and worse, and the Red Guards randomly entered _____ and searched them. | homes |
The smallest thing, such as possession of a _____ _____, inspired severe punishments. Many were simply punished for being _____ to people who were considered suspicious. | Mozart recording; related |
_____ and _____ soon closed across the whole country, and education became unavailable for most. | Schools and colleges |
Many leadership positions were taken down, and the official president of the PRC died degraded in _____. | prison |
_____ _____, who became important for post-Maoist China, managed to survive harsh conditions in prison as well. | Deng Xiaoping |
By 1969 almost half of the original _____ members and half of the original _____ _____ members had been purged. | politburo; central committee |
Radical _____ _____ fought everything and everyone. | Red Guards |
Much of the violence was not recorded by an _____ since there was simply nobody left, and that makes it difficult to establish the actual number of victims, but existing evidence paints a grim picture. | agency |
In 1967, Mao ordered the _____ _____ _____ to step in and restore order. | People’s Liberation Army |
From 1968 until Mao’s death in 1976, more than 12 million students were forcefully relocated to remote, _____ _____ to break up student concentrations and to acquaint supposedly elitist student intellectuals with hard peasant life. | rural villages |
After the students had followed Mao and done his dirty work, they were now sent to work in the villages because he feared that his _____ had gotten out of hand. | campaigns |