2. Good morning! Please sit in your assigned seat. Get out your notes, charts, and your major themes sheet

3. Four Minutes First Four Chart Round 2 Activity 3 Label & date your paper Write a thesis statement for 2.2 guiding question List supporting evidence Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End

4. Today’s Agenda First Four Quiz Videos 2.2 Vocab Review Communist China

6. Civil War 1927-1949 Nationalists v Communists Nationalist leader: Jaing Jieshi (Chaing Kai-shek) Communist leader: Mao Zedong

7. Civil War At first the nationalists were winning Chased the communists on their “Long Walk” north to Yanan region. Pause in civil war 1937- 1945 to fight Japanese Fighting starts again in 1945

8. Civil War America supported the ______________ side in the war. However, high taxes and government corruption meant that many ordinary Chinese did not. Most Chinese lived in the countryside and were poor. Mao promised them more land and prosperity

9. Civil War Communists fought a guerilla style war against the nationalists and began accruing victories. By 1949 Mao declared the birth of the new communist state : The People’s Republic of China Only hold out: Taiwan; Chaing Kai-Shek went there.

11. 1949 Woes What OTHER major Communist victory occurred in 1949?

13. How does the US see this? The Red Menace World wide spread of communism A global conspiracy Must commit to containment Berlin, Korea, etc.

14. A New Superpower? China: world’s greatest population Wanted the be regarded on par with USA and USSR 1964- nuclear capabilities

15. Sino-Soviet Split Surprisingly tense relations between USSR & China Mao felt that Stalin did not support him enough during the revolution. USSR did not see China as an equal partner in their quest for world wide domination, and did not want to share global leadership.

16. Sino-Soviet Split After Stalin: Khrushchev The Chinese considered him too friendly toward the west. USSR brought home many Soviet scientists and engineers 1968-1970 China and the USSR cam e close to war over arguments about territory. Poor terms until the 1980s.

17. The Great Leap Forward 1958 Once Mao was in power, he wanted to make changes to the Chinese economy. Collective farms: communes New factories This attempt to increase output: The Great Leap Forward Unsuccessful…

18. The Cultural Revolution Mao’s plan to consolidate power and rid China of the communist haters. Ensure that communist thought was THE ideology of China Red Guard: Youthful supporters of Mao Terrorized people throughout the countryside and cities of China

19. Cultural Revolution Wide distribution of Mao’s Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung “Little Red Book” Bound in pocket sized editions Anyone know who traditional Chinese society quoted/turned to for advice or wisdom?

20. USA and China The west was not too keen on the Cultural Revolution Remained strained through 1950s and 1960s US President Nixon wanted to build a stronger relationship with China USA “recognized” the government of China for the first time, and Nixon visited in 1972. All thanks to….

21. USA and China

22. After Mao RIP Mao: 1976 Power struggle between radical and moderate commies Radicals: Gang of Four Included Mao’s widow Jaing Qing And the winner was…..

23. After Mao The Moderates! Led by Deng Xiaoping Gang of Four blamed for chaos of Cultural Revolution and put in prison In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping abandoned many ideas of communist economics and encouraged….

24. GASP! Competition and free enterprise!!! We call this _____________________

25. DO NOT BE CONFUSED Capitalist style economics are not the same as a free society. There was no increase in personal freedoms in China simply because the economy changed…

26. BUT MANY WERE CONFUSED Many students believed that the increase in economic freedom should equate to an increase in personal freedom… A “pro-democracy” movement sprung up especially among students in early 1989. Demonstrators camped out in Tiananmen Square, a park in Beijing. Demanded free speech and free elections.

27. Tiananmen Square Eventually the students were joined by ordinary citizens June 3, 1989, the army was sent in to clear the square. Thousands of people were killed Leaders of pro-democracy movement arrested Shocked the world, and created tension with western trading partners China’s government continues to operate with a capitalist style economy and no political/personal freedom.

28. Tiananmen Square

29. What ever happened to Tank Man?