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Modern China
Opium Wars to Present
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History
9th Grade
05/15/2013

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Chinese Isolation
Definition
After Zheng He’s exploration the Chinese did not communicate or trade with other countries.
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Opium
Definition
A drug the British were selling to China
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Opium Wars
Definition
War fought between China and the British because the British refused to stop selling Opium to China.
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Treaty of Nanjing
Definition
Agreement signed between China and British to end the Opium War. It was “unfair” towards China.
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Extraterritorial rights
Definition
The British did not have to follow Chinese Laws while they were in China.
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Spheres of Influence
Definition
An area where only a specific foreign country could trade in China.
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Open Door Policy
Definition
The U.S. wanted to be able to trade in a countries Sphere of Influence and pay a tax. The countries who had spheres refused.
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Taiping Rebellion 1839-1864
Definition
A Chinese group attacked their own government because they were made at them because foreigners had Sphere’s of Influence.
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
Chinese group that attacked the foreigners in China.
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Coalition
Definition
A group of countries that work together (sometimes in a military force)
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Sun Yat Sen
Definition
Started a Revolution in 1911 and tried to promote 3 principles (nationalism, democracy, livelihood)
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Chiang Kai Shek
Definition
Took over for Sun Yat Sen but did not follow his three principles – he lost to the Communists and fled to China
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Chinese Civil War 1921-1949
Definition
Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang fought against the Mao Zedong and the Communists. The Communists won.
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Leader of the Communists who took over China in 1949. His most infamous policies were the Great Leap Forward and the Long March
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The Long March 1934
Definition
When the communists were being chased throughout China by the Kuomintang. It is the turning point because the Communists got the Peasants on their side.
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Peasant
Definition
Poor Farmer
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Communism
Definition
Everyone is equal
Make same amount of money no matter what job you have.
Government controls all the products and gives them to the people.
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Great Leap Forward
Definition
Mao’s plan to catch up to the rest of the world in one “Giant Leap” by making communes and backyard furnaces
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Communes
Definition
Huge state farms that the peasants were forced to work on and send all the food to the cities.
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Backyard Furnaces
Definition
People in were told they must make steel in furnaces in their backyards.
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Quota
Definition
A minimum amount that most be produced in a given time to receive credit/food
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Censorship
Definition
Government decides what gets on newspaper, T.V. and radio
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Propaganda
Definition
Government makes everything look like things are going well to make people think things are good in their country.
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Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
Definition
Mao’s attempt to get rid of anti-revolutionaries he put many educated people in jail, gave out little red books and created the Red Guard
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Deng Xioping
Definition
Mao’s successor whose plan was the Four Modernizations
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Four Modernizations
Definition
Deng Xioping’s economic plan to catch China up to the rest of the world. It had ideas of capitalism
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Special Economic Zones
Definition
Places where foreign companies can come to China, create factories and use China’s cheap labor
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Tiananmen Square Massacre
Definition
Deng Xioping sent troops into Tiananmen Square where students were protesting and them removed and some were injured and killed.
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One Child Policy
Definition
To try and slow overpopulation China only allows couples to have one child.
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Outsourcing
Definition
When a company goes to a place like India or China to use the citizens as cheap labor.
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