1. CHINA ( )

2. Mao Zedong Communist leader (1949) Gov. took over the economy in 1949
Factories, businesses, farmland

3. How Mao came to power Nationalists vs. Communists (Civil War)
Chaing Kai-shek Mao Zedong

4. Mao’s Radical Policies
Great Leap Forward
1958
Goal-to increase output from farms/factories
Step backward
Rushed people to work
Ignored planning and need for experience
Ex. Steel production-led to backyard furnaces
Less farmers + poor weather = famine (30 million people died

5. Cultural Revolution
1966
Goal-To create a new society with no ties to the past
Closed schools and urged students to rebel against teachers/families/doctors/artists/Professors

6. Students formed the RED GUARD-bands of radicals
Destroyed ancient buildings
Threatened Mao’s Gov.
Kept China in turmoil until 1976

7. Taiwan 1949 Nationalists fled here Set up a Free Enterprise System
Choose jobs
Start businesses
Own property
Make profits

8. Changes in China 1970-1980’s Joins the UN in 1971
1972 Pres. Nixon was the first President to visit China-Trade established
Mao dies in 1976
1980’s improved farming, science, industry, defense
Privately owned businesses

9. China Today Economic power One party system-Communist
Poor human rights