1. Communism Spreads in East Asia
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Communism Spreads in East Asia

2. China’s Communist Revolution
Mao Zedong
Support of peasants
Land for poor
Conquered Tibet in 1950

3. Communist one-party totalitarian state
Discouraged Buddhism, Confucianism
Opponents= counterrevolutionaries
Beaten, labor camps or killed

4. Collectivization
Great Leap Forward program
Increase output
Communes
Program failed
55 million starved

5. 1966 Mao launched the Cultural Revolution
Schools closed
Bourgeois beaten/killed

6. China, the Cold War’s Wild Card
Tensions with Soviets
U.S. dealt with Jieshi in Taiwan
China in U.N
Nixon meets with Mao

7. 1979 set up diplomatic relations with China
Taiwan resisted China’s rule

8. War Comes to Korea
Split in two after war
Divided along the 38th parallel of latitude
North Korea, communist led by Kim IL Sung

9. South Korea backed by U.S. led by Syngman Rhee
Sung attacks and moves deep into S. Korea
U.S. and U.N step in

10. Mostly U.S. troops Pusan Perimeter
Captured rail lines and cut off troops, food, ammunition
U.N. moved north to the boarder of China

11. China helped push the U.N. back to the 38th parallel
Stalemate
1953 armistice

12. Two Koreas
1980’s movement towards democracy in south