Download Cold War China and Korea

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
transition to
__________________
• The growing middle class and student protests led to the first
direct elections in South Korea in 1987.
• Most South Koreans
___________________________________________________.
• Economic growth slowed in the late 1960s.
North Korea clung to
hard-line
The government built a cult of personality around its
_____________.
_____________________.