1. World History 3—4/26/2018 Good morning. Have your notebooks out
Intro to Communism in China
Intro reading and Q’s

2. CrashCourse: China
Watch the video!

3. China’s Background
Ruled by emperor until revolution led by Sun Yat-sen (Guomindang Nationalist)
Warlord controlled
Chaos
Guomindang (democratic) took control back in 1925 (led by Chiang Kai-shek)

4. Communists in Control
Communists and Nationalists resumed civil war following World War II
Manchuria – taken over by Communists in 1948
December, Communists in control
Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalists retreated to Formosa (Taiwan)

5. China’s Civil War

6. Tale of Two China’s Nationalist Republic of China- Taiwan (Democratic)
Supported by United States
Peoples Republic of China- Mainland China (Communist) Mao Zedong
Supported by Soviet Union
1949 Communists win

7. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) 1949-1976

8. Leadership Under Mao One party Dictatorship
Totalitarian state based on Soviet model
Denied people basic rights & freedoms
Goals- Transform China into modern industrial nation
Mao Zedong 毛泽东

9. Communism in China
Leadership under Mao

10. Think Back…
What did STALIN do in the USSR in order to increase AGRICULTURAL production?
What did STALIN do in the USSR in order to increase INDUSTRIAL production?
Did either plan work?

11. Economic Changes Under Mao
First Five-Year Plan ( )
Advances in agriculture and coal, electricity, iron, and steel production
Second Five-Year Plan ( )
“Great Leap Forward”
China became a leading industrial country
Peasants organized into communes (collectivization)
Land redistributed from wealthy to peasants
Widespread famine – at least 14,000,000 deaths

12. “Great Leap Forward”
Plan to increase industrial & agricultural output
High production quotas
Established “Peoples Communes”
Peasants had no incentive to work
Program was major failure
Poor planning, low production, crop failures, famine, shortage of raw materials
40 million die before program ends in 1961

13. The Cultural Revolution
Attempt to renew peoples loyalty to Communism
Purges of counterrevolutionaries
Intellectuals & artists
Militia units known as The Red Guard formed by students
Goal=Destroy the 4 olds
Old customs, culture, habits & ideas
Purged those who were old communist party members
Replaced with new loyal members

20. Relations with Foreign Powers
USSR offers financial, military & technical aid
Relationship breaks apart in 1960’s
Supports North Korea in Korean War
U.S. does not formally recognize China until 1979
UN Membership in 1971

21. Cultural Revolution Reading
Use the reading to answer the questions.
For the analysis questions, make sure you use evidence to support your answer.
Due at the end of the period

22. World History 3—5/1/2018 Good morning. Have your notebooks out
Deng Xiaoping Notes & the 4 Modernizations
Current event (if time)
Vocab quiz next Monday
U3 exam next Tues or Wed

23. Great leap Forward & Cultural Revolution Review
Review Video

24. Communism in China
Leadership under Deng

25. Comparison
Mao=Stalin
Deng=Lenin

26. Deng Xiaoping Promoted foreign trade and contact with western World
4 modernizations: Industry, Agriculture, Science & technology, Defense
Eliminated communes
Cracked down on dissidents (those against him or communism)

27. 4 Modernizations
Economic Reform: supported capitalist ideas but remained Communist
Welcomed foreign investment
Set up zones where they could own and operate business
Results: Economy grew but increased the gap between the rich and the poor

28. Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square- Thousands killed/arrested
May 1989
Peaceful student protest for greater Democracy
Thousands killed/arrested
Human rights violations still a huge issue

32. China of the 1990s Economically open/ politically closed
Transfer of Hong Kong (1997) from British control
Agreed not to change Hong Kong’s political or economic system for 50 years

33. China Today Economic Force
As more capitalist trends are introduced, the question is:
How long can they continue the Communist political philosophy?
Mass Surveillance?
Censorship Laws?
One Child Policy?