| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Kuomintang | the nationalist party of china |
| Sun Yixian | first great leader of kuomintang, overthrew the last qing emperor |
| Mao Zedong | communist party leader |
| May 4th movement of 1919 | national movement that showed the chinese people's commitment to the goal of establishing a strong, modern nation |
| Jiang Jieshi | second Kuomintang leader who killed mostly all chinese communists |
| Long March | 6,000 mile journey where the communists fleed from nationalist forces |
| Agrarian Reform Law | where Mao seized the land and distributed it among the peasants |
| Fiver year plan | a program of industrial growth and socialization |
| "Great Leap Foward" | program that called for llarger communes |
| "Backyard industries" | where peasants had to work in thier own backyards producing crops and using steel machines on their commune |
| Red Guards | militia units of young chinese who formed in response to Mao's call for a social and cultural revoultion |
| Cultural Revolution | uprising in China, lead by Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| Zhou Enlai | ruler of China after the failure of Mao's cultural revolution turned people against him |
| Deng Xiaoping | leader of the communist party after Mao's death, lead the Four Modernizations |
| Four Modernizations | progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science/technology |
| Hong Kong | a city in China that has been a major issue for the country |
| "Asia for the Asians" | an anticolonist idea to try to sway the support of Asians for Japanese |
| "Four Tigers" of Asia | South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. they were called thsi because of their impressive economic growth |
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