1. Communism Spreads in East Asia
China’s Communist and Cultural Revolution and the Korean War.
Communism Spreads in East Asia

2. China

3. China’s path to Communism
Failures of Nationalist party
Rise of the CCP and Mao
an economic collapse
huge inflation problem
Corruption in government.
Western influence
Huge amounts of peasant support.
Promised woman equality
Promised lands for the poor/peasant people.
USSR provided aid with weapons and Intel

4. Chairman Mao Zedong Born to a peasant Family
Lead the CCP army to defeat the Nationalist party and took over China.
Established the People's Republic of China on October 1,

5. The Great Leap Forward “Destroy the old world; Forge the new world.“
Effort to increase farm and industrial output.
Created communes
Huge failure.
Food shortages everywhere.
Over 55 million Chinese people died.
“Destroy the old world; Forge the new world.“

6. What was The Great Leap forward suppose to do?
1. privatize capital investment   2. have religious tolerance   3. give individual ownership of land   4. increase industrial productivity 

7. Failure of Great Leap Forward
Because of Chairmen Mao’s failure in the Great Leap Forward
He lost economic power within the Communist power.
Rivals were starting to oppose Chairmen Mao.

8. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Propaganda used to support Chairmen Mao and his Revolution.

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10. What was the Purpose of the Cultural Revolution
 1. restore China to the glory of the Han Dynasty   2. reemphasize Confucian traditional values   3. weaken communist ideas   4. eliminate opposition to Mao Zedong 

11. The Red Guard Young students who aligned themselves with Chairmen Mao
Extreme believers of anything that Mao had said.
“Little Red Book”- was a book of quotes from Mao

12. The Red Guard Was the army for Mao Destroyed churches and temples.
Attacked teachers and other intellectuals.
Weeded out any non- believers of Chairmen Mao.

13. Why were the Red Guard feared? (opinion)

14. Why the Cultural Revolution?
Destroying the four olds.
Old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
These “four olds” interfered with the creation of a modern socialist society.

15. Impact on the Young Cultural Revolution values were taught in schools.
Graduates sent to the countryside for manual labor.
Mao said; "It is necessary for intellectual students to go the countryside and be re-educated by poor or average peasants."

16. Impact on the Economy
Decrease in food, clothing and housing production
Confusion from the Government.

17. Was it worth it? 30 million people died during the cultural revolution
Freedoms of the Chinese people were lost.
Education completely halted.
Widespread economic failure.
Cultural Revolution never truly ended until Chairmen Mao’s Death in 1976.