Do Now:

• What type of government did China adopt during Mao Zedong’s rule?

• What country did China use a model for this type of government?

• Why might Stalin have been happy about what was going on within China?

• Homework: NONE

Communism in China

Ch. 21 Sect. 2

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong spreads Communism

Characteristics of Communism:

• A FORM OF SOCIALISM

• ONE LEADING RULER

• STRUGGLE BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES UNAVOIDABLE.

• GOVERNMENT CONTROL EXTREME

• NATIONALISM

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

WHY DID THEY WIN?

• MAO WON THE SUPPORT OF PEASANTS.

• WOMEN BACKED MAO.

• MAO WAS ABLE TO OUT FIGHT THE CURRENT LEADER.

MAKING THE ECONOMY STRONGER

• BUSINESSES NATIONALIZED.

• 5 YEAR PLANS….WHO CAN THESE BE COMPARED TO?

• COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE.

WITH COMMUNISM COMES TOTALITARIANISM

MAO BECAME CHINA’S RULER.

• TOTALITARIAN STATE WITH COMMUNISM LEADING THE COUNTRY.

• COMMUNISM EVEN REPLACED RELIGION---- CONFUCIANISM.

THE HIGHER CLASSES FOUGHT TERROR FROM THE

GOVERNMENT.

• WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT PEASANTS AND THE LOWER CLASS OVER THE MIDDLE OR HIGHER CLASS?

LITERACY/WOMEN’S RIGHTS

• SCHOOLS WERE OPENED.

• WOMEN WIN EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW.

WHILE MANY OF THESE PROGRAMS SEEMED GOOD, IT

CAME AT A HEAVY COST.

• 2 MAIN EVENTS LEAD TO ECONOMIC RUIN AND MANY LIVES LOST IN CHINA.

GREAT LEAP FORWARD

• MAKE A LARGER EFFORT TO INCREASE FARM & INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT.

• COMMUNES=LAND, VILLAGES, PEOPLE.– EACH COMMUNE HAD A PRODUCTION

QUOTA.

IT FAILS!

• QUOTAS WERE NOT MET.

• BAD WEATHER HIT; WHICH LEAD TO LESS FOOD.

BETWEEN 1959-1961 30 MILLION CHINESE DIE FROM HUNGER.

1966- GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• PURGE CHINA OF BOURGEOIS/ NONREVOLUTIONARIES.

TEENAGERS FOR RED GUARDS

WHAT IS IN THEIR HANDS?

THESE GROUPS TARGETED PEOPLE OF AUTHORITY AND

ANYONE WHO WAS BELIEVED TO A

COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY.

• SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES CLOSED.

• ECONOMY SLOWED.

• THIS GENERATION BECAME KNOWN AS THE “LOST GENERATION”

COMPARE THE FOLLOWING TWO QUOTES

• “THE POLICY OF LETTING A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOSSOM AND A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT CONTEND IS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE FLOURISHING OF THE ARTS AND THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.”

Write an explanation about this quote.

• “SWOLLEN IN HEAD, WEAK IN LEGS, SHARP IN TONGUE, BUT EMPTY IN BELLY.”

• Write down what the difference is between the quotes. – Think time period; who may be saying it

exc.