Communist China
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means "great revolution to create a proletarian (working class) culture"
GREATROLETARIANCULTURALREVOLUTION
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Mao's successors' effort to control population growth, incentives were offered to couples who limited their number of children to one, more successful in cities than rural areas
ONE-CHILDPOLICY
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income per person, including farm income, which doubled in the 1980s
PERCAPITA
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an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor that could enable China to reach the final
PERMANENT REVOLUTION
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contained more than 30,000 who lived and worked together on farms
COMMUNE
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the demonstrations demanding for the resignation of the aging Communist Party leaders
TIANANMENSQUARE
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the country where Chiang Kai-shek and his 2 million followers fled after the communist People's Liberation Army defeated the Nationalists
TAIWAN
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anti-communist half of Korea that was aided by the US
SOUTHKOREA
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first president to visit communist China
RICHARDNIXON
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revolutionary groups made up of young people set out to eliminate the "Four Olds" -- old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits
REDGUARDS
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communist half of Korea that was supported by China and the Soviet Union
NORTHKOREA
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led the communist government in northern China
MAOZEDONG
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collection of Mao's thoughts that became like the bible of the Chinese communists, hailed as the most important source of knowledge and in every hotel, school, factory, commune, and university
LITTLEREDBOOK
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Mao Zedong's radical program in 1958 that combined over 700,000 existing collective farms into 26,000 communes
GREATLEAPFORWARD
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led some reformers who seized power after Mao Zedong's death in 1976 and ended the Cultural Revolution
DENGXIAOPING
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supported by the US and formed the Nationalist government in southern and central China
CHIANGKAI-SHEK