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Card 16

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After China had fought the USA to a stalemate during the Korean War of 1950-3, Mao claimed that the USA was merely a what?

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Card 17

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What was the name of the Gulag-style labour camps set up in China to hold ‘counter-revolutionaries’: there were 1.3 million prisoners in them by 1955

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Card 18

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Which four regions of China were targeted as part of the ‘reunification campaigns’ launched in 1950?

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Card 19

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At first the CCP gave the impression that they would rule democratically. In September 1949 the CPPCC convened. What did this stand for?

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Card 20

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What was the name of the Chinese Nationalist Party under Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to Taiwan in December 1949?

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