1. COMMUNISM SPREADS IN EAST ASIA
Chapter 15 Section 3

2. Civil War 1946 to 1949 Nationalists receive U.S. support
Communists supported by Soviets
1949 Communists won with support of the peasants
Nationalists retreated to Taiwan

5. 1953- Mao set out to rebuild China during “The Great Leap Forward”
Land redistribution
Forced collectivization of peasant lands-formation of communes

7. Failure
forced industrialization
lack of incentive
disregard of traditional social and economic structures

9. The 1966 Cultural Revolution
Mao-” learn revolution by making revolution”
Gang of Four
Anti-intellectual movement

12. 1970s US policy of détente-a lessening of tensions
Richard Nixon
Ping pong diplomacy
Zhou Enlai

14. The Korean Conflict was a good example of the containment policy in action
38th parallel
U.N. Action

17. Near Defeat
Last stand at Pusan
Inchon-scene of surprise attack by US forces led by Douglas Mac Arthur

21. Yalu River
Chinese cross with massive counterattack
MacArthur demands troops and atomic weapons

24. Conflict stagnates into stalemate
Truman rejects Mac Arthur’s demands/ dismisses the general
Cease-fire in th parallel

26. Containment policy succeeds in preventing communist expansion