1. How did China Come under the Communist Regime of Mao Zedong?
Global History & Geography
10th Grade
Thursday, July 25, 2019

2. Communist Rise to Power
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) became leader of Goumindang (Kuomintang) – Chinese Nationalist Party After Sun Yat-Sen
Chiang Started to fight the communists
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse Tong) in 1934 fled to Northern China in a Long March
100,000 men/6000 miles journey
1949 Communists overthrew the nationalists

3. Reasons for Communists Success
Mao won the support of the huge peasant population of China by promising them land
Mao won the support of the women by rejecting inequalities of traditional Confucian society
Mao’s army used hit-and-run guerilla tactics
Many people opposed the nationalists because of their corruption
Some people believed that nationalists allowed foreigners to dominate china

4. Communism Under Mao The Changing Role of Women Equality under law
Expected to work alongside men on farms and factories
In reality not all of them achieved equality
Only few women rose to the top of communist party leadership
Overall position of women improved under communists

5. 10th Grade Global History
Programs of Mao Zedong
Program
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
Goals
Increase Farm and Factory Production
Renew Communist Loyalties
Methods
Communes
Production Quotas
Red Guards Attack Professors and Other officials
Results
Program fails
Two years of hunger and low production
Economy Slows
China Closes to Outside World
People fear arrest
Civil War threatened
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10th Grade Global History

6. Communism Under Mao Great Leap Forward Launched in 1958
To increase the farm and factory output
Communes – groups of people who live and work together and hold property in common – were formed to make farms more effective.
Quotas were assigned to farms and factories
Great Leap Forward failed
Two years of hunger and low production

7. Communism Under Mao The Cultural Revolution
Goal: to renew people’s loyalty to communism and establish a more equitable society
Feared that revolutionary peasants and workers were being replaced by intellectuals in running the country
Created Red Guards who attacked, professor, officials & factory managers.
Cut the Chinese from their past

8. Communism Under Mao Results of Cultural Revolution Homework
Economy slowed down
China closes to outside world
People feared arrest and torture
Civil War threatened
Homework
Questions 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 on page 797