ASIA Conflict & Change (Impact of Communism in China); Part 2 The Cultural Revolution thru Tiananmen Square Standard SS7H3d.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Standard: SS7H3: The student will analyze continuity and change in Southern and Eastern Asia leading to the 21st century. d. Describe the impact of Communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Froward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square

FIRST FIVE Agenda Message: CDA III Study Guides go home today with all students. CDA III is February 28th. Standard: Describe the impact of Communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Froward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Essential Question, Thursday; 2/16/17: What was the Cultural Revolution designed to do? Warm-up: Who was Mao Zedong? Today We Will: Start History of Communist China, Pt. 2

ANSWERS E.Q. Answer for Thursday Feb. 16th: The Cultural Revolution was designed to get rid of opposition to Mao and his Communist government. Ultimately it was a program for Mao to regain his control over the Chinese government, by eliminating all opposition forces. Warm-Up: A founding member of Chinese Communist Party and the 1st Premier of the Communist People’s Republic of China.

FIRST FIVE Agenda Message: CDA III is Feb.28th. Use your Study Guides to “Prepare for Success”. Standard: Describe the impact of Communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Froward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Essential Question, Friday; 2/17/17: Who was Deng Xiaoping and what did he allow after the death of Mao Zedong? Warm-up: Describe the goal of the Cultural Revolution. Today We Will: Complete History of Communist China, Pt. 2 History of U.S. involvement in Japan after WWII

ANSWERS E.Q. Answer for Friday February 17th: Deng Xiaoping was more moderate in his ideas about the path China should follow than Mao Zedong. He began to allow farmers to own their own land and make decisions about what to grow. He allowed some private businesses to organize, and He opened China to foreign investment and technological advances. Warm-Up: The Cultural Revolution was a program designed for Mao to regain his control of the Chinese government by eliminating all opposition to Communism and to him personally.

FIRST FIVE Agenda Message: CDA III is Friday, Feb. 26th. Prepare for Success, STUDY using your Study Guides!!! Standard: Describe the impact of Communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Froward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Essential Question for Wednesday; 2/24/16: What were the protests in Tiananmen Square all about? Warm-up: Why was China criticized for Human Rights Violations during the Cultural Revolution? Today We Will: Complete the History of Communist China, Pt. 2

ANSWERS E.Q. Answer for Wednesday Feb. 24th: Over 10,000 students showed up to protest what they felt was corruption in the Chinese government and they called for a move towards democracy. The students went so far a to raise a statue they called the Goddess of Democracy, modeled after America’s Statue of Liberty. Warm-Up: Estimates of up to 3 million Chinese dissidents were arrested, thrown into prison, sent to forced labor camps and/or killed outright. Without judicial review or legal representation.

First five Agenda Message: CDA III is TOMORROW. Prepare for Success, STUDY using your Study Guides!!! Standard: Describe the impact of Communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Froward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Essential Question for Thursday; 2/25/16: How did Ding Xiaoping finally deal with the student protests in Tiananmen Square? Warm-up: Compare Mao Zedong and Ding Xiaoping. Today We Will: Complete the History of Communist China, Pt. 2 Review CDA III Study Guides

answers E.Q. Answer for Thursday Feb. 25th: Warm-Up:

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS What role did Mao Zedong play in China? What is Mao’s continuing importance today in China? Name the three major events in sequence that occurred in recent Chinese history. How did these three events impact the development of modern China? Explain each event in terms of its importance to individual rights.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Communist China, Part 2 (Review) In October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China, a Communist government that now led one of the largest countries in the world. Mao tried to reorganize all of China along Communist lines of collective ownership of farms and factories.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Private ownership was eliminated and production quotas were set for agriculture and industry. He decided in 1958 to organize all farms into large collectives, where all ownership and decision making would be in the hands of the government . This program was called The Great Leap Forward.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Mao thought that as a result of the Great Leap Forward tremendous positive changes would follow. In fact many Chinese farmers did not like the large farms. They missed their own land and because they no longer owned anything themselves, they had little incentive to work very hard.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS A series of crop failures in the late 1950s made everything worse, and China went through a period of famine. The Great Leap Forward was abandoned in 1960 as a failure. After the failure of this program, some in China began to suggest that private ownership might not be a bad idea.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Farmers and factory workers began to do some work for themselves and Mao saw his ideal of a classless society, one where everyone was treated exactly the same and no one had more than anyone else, drifting away.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Part 2 Mao’s response was to announce the Cultural Revolution in 1966. It’s main purpose was to stop opposition to the Communist Party. Mao shut down schools and recruited students into his Red Guards which attacked and punished any person who opposed communism.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Leaders in the Chinese community who seemed to be in higher positions were attacked. Business managers, college professors, even government officials who were not supporters of the Communist Cultural Revolution were thrown out.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Some were sent to prison; others were actually killed. Ultimately, these attacks created mass chaos in China. Factories closed and China’s economy became weak. The government denied healthcare and transportation to the Chinese people.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS The Cultural Revolution only created more distrust of China’s Communist government in the minds of many Chinese and the world. The Cultural Revolution raged on for almost ten years, at which time Mao himself had to admit it had been a mistake.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS In 1976 the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution was ended. Gradually order returned to China.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Mao died in 1976 and by 1980 Deng Xiaoping was named the leader of China. Though Deng had been with Mao since the days of the Long March, he was more moderate in his ideas about the path China should follow.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Deng began to allow farmers to own some of their own land and make decisions about what they would grow. He allowed some private businesses to organize, and he opened China to foreign investment and technological advances.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS He found that openness to western business also meant that the Chinese people were also exposed to western ideas.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS In 1989*, when communist governments were under attack in a number of places around the world, China went through a period of student protests that resulted in a huge demonstration in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. (*Note: Around the time of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the USSR and the end of the Cold War)

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS Over 10,000 students gathered to protest what they felt was corruption in the Chinese government. In addition, they called for a move to democracy. The students even went so far as to raise a statue they called the Goddess of Democracy, modeled on America’s Statue of Liberty.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS The world watched as Deng Xiaoping ordered thousands of soldiers into Beijing to end the protest. On June 4, 1989, the Chinese government ordered the soldiers in Tiananmen Square to break up the demonstration.

ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS They fired on the students, destroyed the statue of the Goddess of Democracy, and arrested thousands of people. The brief pro-democracy movement was destroyed as well, and Deng Xiaoping was left in control. He held power until his death in 1997.