1. ASIA Conflict & Change (Impact of Communism in China)
The Great Leap Forward
Standard SS7H3d.

2. 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

3. FIRST FIVE
Agenda Message: Quiz next Friday on Communism, the Cold War, Communist China & the Vietnam War. Study Guides go home tomorrow.
Standard: Analyze continuity and change in S&EA leading to the 21st century as it relates to the History of Indian & Vietnam.
Essential Question for Thursday 3/22/18: Who were the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party in China?
Warm Up: How many U.S. service men and women are listed as either killed or missing in action (MIA) on the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.?
Today We Will:
Finish history of Vietnam War
Start history of China

4. ANSWERS
E.Q. Answer for Thursday 3/22/18: They were early supporters of democracy in China starting in 1900’s. Warm-Up Answer: 58,272 names of U.S. servicemen and women were either killed or are listed as missing in action as a result of the Vietnam War.

5. FIRST FIVE
Agenda Message: Quiz on Communism, the Cold War, the Vietnam War rescheduled for next Friday. Study Guides go home today.
Standard: Analyze continuity and change in S&EA leading to the 21st century as it relates to the History of Indian & Vietnam.
Essential Question for Friday 3/23/18: Who was Mao Zedong?
Warm Up: Who were the supporters of democracy in China during the early 1900’s?
Today We Will:
History of Communist China

6. ANSWERS E.Q. Answer for Friday 3/23/18:
Mao Zedong was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party. He went on to successfully lead the Communist in their civil war against the Kuomintang. Finally he became Communist China’s first Premier.
Warm-Up Answer:
The Kuomintang or Nationalist Party

7. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
COMMUNIST CHINA, Part 1
World War I to the Great Leap Forward
Nationalism was also a powerful influence in China at the end of World War I.
The Qing Dynasty, a dynasty that had ruled China since the 1600s was overthrown by the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party who were supporters of western styled democracy.

8. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
The new government was called the Republic of China, which declared that one of its aims would be an end to foreign control in China’s affairs. The Kuomintang, or the Nationalist party were led by a man called Sun Yixian.

9. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
Unfortunately, the new government was not able to either bring order to China or help the Chinese people. Many people were killed as robbers and thieves roamed the countryside. World War I took the attention of most people away from the problems of unrest in China.

10. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
At the end of the war, European politicians signed the Treaty of Versailles ( ), restoring the Imperial government and giving the Japanese control of some Chinese territory.

11. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
Many young Chinese were angry about the treaty of Versailles and wanted an end to what they felt was the failed Imperial government and the democratic government of the Kuomintang Party. The Chinese were disillusioned with western style democracy and feudalism. As a result they looked to Russia and their Communist Revolution as an alternative.

12. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
In 1921 a group of young Chinese men, including Mao Zedong, met in Shanghai to form the first Chinese Communist Party.

13. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
The Kuomintang tried to make alliances with the new Chinese Communist Party, and for some years the two groups worked together to try and bring order to China.

14. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
Eventually though the Kuomintang turned on the Communists in an ambush and many of them were killed. In 1929 the Kuomintang announced the formation of a new government, the Nationalist Republic of China.

15. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
Eventually though the Kuomintang government turned on the Communists and many of them were killed. In 1929 the Kuomintang announced the formation of a new government, the Nationalist Republic of China.

16. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
Mao Zedong survived the attack on the communists by the Kuomintang government and he decided that his future and the future of the Communist Party in China would be found in the countryside with support from the peasants.

17. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
A civil war began between Mao and his communist followers and the Nationalist government. In Mao led his followers, over 600,000 people, into the mountains to escape being defeated by the nationalist government.

18. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
They walked nearly 6,000 miles to avoid capture. The Communist troops crossed 18 mountain ranges and 24 rivers during their march. This journey, known as the Long March, decisively established Mao’s leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and eventually led to the defeat of the Nationalists in the civil war to control mainland China.

19. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
The Chinese Communists and the Nationalist forces had to call a temporary truce during World War II as both groups fought to keep the Japanese from taking over China.

20. ASIA HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
At the end of the WWII the truce ended. Again, Civil war between the two groups raged from 1946 until 1949, when Mao’s Communists, now called the Red Army, swept the Nationalist government from power. End of Communist China History, Part 1