1. THE RISE OF COMMUNISM CHINA

2. The Fall of the Quing Dynasty
The end of the empire
Reforms are not working
People want political change; a republic
The Republican Revolution – 1911
Sun Yat-sen
Supports Gen Yuan Shigai
Three-stage reform process
Military take-over
Transitional phase
Constitutional democracy

3. Era of Civil War Nationalism Communism Koumindang
Sun Yat-sen
Three Principles
nationalism
democracy
people’s livelihood
Jiang Jieshi becomes President, 1928
Communism
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
Three Ideals
imperialist powers out
opposed the warlords
land reform
support of
the
peasants

4. THE LONG MARCH

5. 1 YEAR ,000 MILES ,000/87,000 TROOPS
Hardships – fought all the way; freezing weather; lack of food; night marches
Mao established as unquestioned leader of CCP

6. Survivors of the Long March

7. JAPAN INVADES CHINA

8. Japanese Aggression – 1931-1945

9. Victims: Japanese bombing of Shanghai

10. The Rape of Nanjing
Japanese soldiers march into the city

11. Japanese atrocities against the Chinese
Bayonet practice

12. Beheadings Took Place in Public!

13. COMMUNIST REVOLUTION 1946-1949

14. Jiang Jieshi Mao Zedong southern, central China north, eastern China
Post World War II
Nationalists Communists
Jiang Jieshi Mao Zedong
southern, central China north, eastern China
middle class peasants

15. Reasons for the Communists’ Success
Mao won support of peasants – land
Mao won support of women
Mao’s army used guerilla war tactics
Many saw the Nationalist government as corrupt
Many felt that the Nationalists allowed foreigners to dominate China.

16. Taiwan: The Republic of China
Jiang Jieshi and his followers, about two million, flee to Taiwan
The Republic of China was declared
What do you think the
message is in this
cartoon?

17. THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD 5 year plan to increase agriculture and
“hard work for a few years,
happiness for a thousand”
5 year plan to increase agriculture and
industry
Communes
Groups of people, 30,000, who live and
work together
Property held in common
Had production quotas
Failed due to poor quality of products, poor
weather hurt agriculture; 16 million starve

18. Communist China Under Mao
Industrialized China
Increased literacy
Class privileges ended
Rural Chinese received health care
One-party dictatorship
Denied people basic rights and freedoms --> Inner Mongolia, Tibet