HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Money Supply, Neoliberalism, Mikhail Gorbachev

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China = crucial factor in determining whether cold war would spread to asia. How did it influence his policies? (what is the influence of mao"s ideology on foreign countries?) Mao was an enormous admirer of lenin and stalin. Ccp taking power in 1949 transforming china into a modern socialist state (because ally of ussr) Great leap forward (1958-1962: large-scale infrastructure projects and intensive rural industrialization; propaganda campaigns, failed mainly because of the lack of central planning. Foreign policy: retreat from active diplomacy (closed itself from foreign countries during mao"s time. 4 modernizations under deng: agriculture, industry, science, national defense throwing off last vestiges of years of isolation, achieving high economic growth: more open and liberal policies, open up diplomatic relations with other countries. Tiananmen square protest (1989) calling for democracy and purging of corruption. Collapse of ussr prc as the major surviving marxist-leninist state.