Biography: Mao Zedong

  1. What social class was Mao’s family?
  2. What political party was Mao an inaugural member?
  3. Who was the fierce anti-Communist who ran China in 1927?
  4. Why was Mao so appealing to the masses?
  5. What type of warfare did Mao adopt when Chiang Kai-shek attacked in 1930?
  6. What saved the Communist from extinction in China and made Mao a legend?
  1. Why did the Nationalist and the Communist form an alliance by the 1930’s?
  2. What helped the Communists become stronger and better equipped?
  1. When did the Communists and Mao proclaim the birth of the Peoples Republic of China?
  1. Where was there resentment for the Communists? Why?
  2. What was the greatest mobilization of the Chinese people called? What was its purpose and its effects?
  3. What did Mao call his collections of thought s to promote himself and the Communist Party? What is this an example of?
  1. What was Mao’s last major initiative for China?