Cold War China and Korea - Mr Barck's Classroom



Cold War China and Korea name:

• __________________ – the forced pooling of peasant land and labor in an attempt to increase productivity

• _________________________ – a Chinese Communist program from 1958 to 1960 to boost farm and industrial output that failed miserably

• __________________________ – a Chinese Communist program in the late 1960s to purge China of nonrevolutionary tendencies, causing economic and social damage

• 38th Parallel – _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Kim Il Sung – North Korean dictator and ally of

the Soviet Union

• ___________________________ – noncommunist dictatorial leader of South Korea who was backed by the United States

• Pusan Perimeter – the line where U.N. troops stopped the advance of North Korea in 1950

• demilitarized zone – __________________________________

What did the Communist victory mean for China and the rest of East Asia?

China became a communist nation in________________ and made advances into East Asia.

This development led to war in __________________ as a United Nations force worked to prevent the spread of communism there.

Communist forces led by ________________________ won a civil war in China in the wake of World War II.

• Mao won the ________________________________ by redistributing land.

• People were also tired of the corruption in ___________________________ _______________________________ and his reliance on support from the West.

• Communist forces took Beijing in 1949 and proclaimed a ________________________ state.

The Nationalists led by ____________________________________ fled to the island of ________________ when the Communists won the war.

• _________________ was a one-party dictatorship until the late 1980s.

• Mainland China never recognized __________________________ independence.

Mao’s leadership led to major changes in China.

• China became a ____________________________________________.

• Mao called for collectivization of _________________________.

• He led a program known as the _______________________________________. People were organized into communes and urged to increase industrial and agricultural productivity.

• In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to purge China of the “educated middle class” Educated people were ____________________________________________.

Mao Zedong was a __________________________.

• He did not hesitate to have his critics _____________ or sent away to do manual labor.

• His failed ______________________________________ led to the deaths of as many as _______________________ people from starvation between 1959 and 1961.

China’s conversion to _________________________ seemed like a victory for the Soviet Union and a defeat for the West.

• In fact, the two were ____________________________.

• The Soviets withdrew all aid from China in 1960 due to border clashes and other disputes.

• The United States saw some value in cooperating with _______________and set up formal _____________________________ with the communist nation in 1979.

After World War II, the _____________________ and the_______________ temporarily _______________________________ along the 38th parallel.

• In ________________________, the Soviet Union supported communist dictator ______________________________.

• In the south, the United States backed _______________________________.

• North Korean forces overran most of South Korea in 1950.

The __________________________ led a United Nations force to defend South Korea.

• UN forces stopped the North Koreans at the ___________________ and then advanced north toward the Chinese border.

• Mao sent a _____________________________ to help the North Koreans. Most of the UN gains were lost.

The Korean War became a stalemate.

• The two sides signed an ________________ in 1953.

• Troops remained on either side of the demilitarized zone near the _________________________, the dividing line between North and South Korea.

The two Koreas developed very differently after the armistice.

• Capitalist South Korea experienced a ______________________________.

• _______________________________________ went into decline.

• Though anticommunist, South Korea was led by a series of dictators until the late 1980s.

|South Korea eventually made a |The growing middle class and student protests led to the first direct elections in South Korea in 1987. |

|transition to __________________ |Most South Koreans ___________________________________________________. |

|North Korea clung to |Economic growth slowed in the late 1960s. |

|hard-line _____________. | |

| |The government built a cult of personality around its _____________________. |

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