1. Communism Spreads in East Asia
Chapter 15.3

2. Focus Question
What did the Communist victory mean for China and the rest of Southeast Asia/

3. China’s Communist Revolution
Chinese Communists defeated the Nationalists by winning the support of the peasants.
The Communists discouraged religious practice and the ideas of Confucianism. Private properties were seized.
Opponents were persecuted.

4. China’s Communist Revolution
Mao Zedong created communes to produce crops, steel, and other products. The products turned out to be of low quality.
In the Cultural Revolution, many young Chinese answered the call to attack the bourgeois.

5. China: The Cold War’s “Wild Card”
China and the Soviet Union had a troubled history and a dispute over ideology and never formed a strong alliance.

6. China: The Cold War’s “Wild Card”
The U.S. came to recognize the People’s Republic of China and, under President Nixon, establish formal diplomatic relations.
Taiwan continued to assert its independence from China.

7. War Comes to Korea
When each of the rulers of North and South Korea wanted to rule the entire country, the two sides went to war.
The South was backed by the U.S. and the North by the Soviets.

8. War Comes to Korea Cont.
When Mao Zedong sent troops to help the North Koreans, the war turned into a stalemate and both sides agreed to an armistice.

9. Two Koreas
After the armistice, South Korea flourished economically with a market economy.
Communist North Korea experienced economic stagnation.
They remain divided.