WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
These leaders rose to power because they gained support of the peasants.
A
Gandhi/Xiaodong
B
Mao Zedong/Fidel Castro
C
Kenyetta/Gandhi
D
Gorbachev/ Nkrumah
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista’s forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista’s overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba’s prime minister.

Detailed explanation-2: -After Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms earning him the reputation as the “Architect of Modern China".

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP, Mao helped to found the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviet’s radical land reform policies, and ultimately became head of the CCP during the Long March.

Detailed explanation-4: -The gang’s leading figure was Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong’s last wife). The other members were Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

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