Communism in China

Mao Zedong: Declassified 43:38http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATOEI_IM1vk

Opponents• NATIONALISTS

- Jiang Jieshi- Southern China- defeat of Communists- public support-weak- ineffective, corrupt leadership- supported by Americans

• COMMUNISTS– Mao Zedong– Northern China– Desired National

liberation– Public support esp.

peasants- strong because of promised land reform

– Experienced, motivated guerilla army (Red Army)

– Supported by Soviet Union

The Long March• Chaing Kai-Shek went after communists

and Mao• Mao and his Red Army went on a 6,000

mile march to the mountains of Northern China

• 100,000 soldiers braved horrible conditions

• Used Guerilla warfare and hit and run tactics

• Only 8,000-20,000 communists survived

Mao in Control• After the Long March, Mao must regroup what

little Red Army is left• Chaing Kai-Shek must protect China from

invading Japan but can’t • Mao joins Chaing Kai-Shek to defeat the Japanese

and is able to gain power of China forcing Shek to Taiwan

• Mao gains control of China in Oct. 1949 and renames it the People’s Republic of China (communism rules!)

Walk About

• Look at pictures around the room and answer questions

Mao• “The force of the peasantry is like that of

the raging winds and driving rains…. They will bury beneath them all the forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses and evil gentry.”

Great Leap Forward• Modernize China…catch up to Britain, America,

Russia• Like the Five Year plan to get better technology and

agriculture – Collective Farms-Government owned farms to

grow food in mass– Build factories to increase goods and economy

• PROBLEMS-Bad crop rotation, poor grain, limited rain, too many farmers forced to work in factories

• 20-40 million people starved to death from famine• So does the Great Leap Forward work????• Mao goes into hiding to figure out his next move…

how to bring the country back under his control

Great Leap Forward

Mao Gains Cultural Control• In order to bring the people

back to supporting Mao and to get rid of his enemies, his wife created the Cultural Revolution

• She was an actress he cheated on, but she wanted him to rise to power again

• She gets rid of all old traditions and changes all types of art (plays, operas, poetry, paintings)…all about Mao and his power

Cultural Revolution• Children, teens, young adults were to

join the Red Guard • Read Mao’s Little Red Book of Quotes• Attack anyone against the new govt and

Mao’s ideas like intellectuals, teachers, professors

• Eventually all schools will close and Red Guard under Mao’s quotes will attack, humiliate, kill anyone against them (including family members)

• Lasted 10 years until it gets out of control…Mao sends in the Red Army to squash Red Guard but the damage is done

• Brainwashed people and Mao falls from power…dies in September 1976

Cultural Revolutionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkSTXaU7eSw (1:20)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrUHVFkm9A&feature=related (3:27)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPuvFXv8Gos (17:16)

Cultural Revolution• Ten-year political campaign - a social experiment aimed at

rekindling revolutionary ideas and purifying the communist party

• Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing (Madame Mao), directed popular anger against opposition

• Uses kids in the Red Guard to remove "intellectuals" and "bourgeois" influences

• Millions were forced into manual labor (including doctors, lawyers, professors) and tens of thousands were executed

• The result was massive civil unrest with Red Guard killing anyone against Mao and his ideas

• The army was sent in to control student disorder. • The Cultural Revolution officially ended with the arrest of

the leaders in 1976 • Mao died not long after this on September 9, 1976 from a

heart attack at age 82

Communism in China

Mao Zedong: Declassified 43:38http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATOEI_IM1vk

Questions

• Did the people of China like or dislike Chairman Mao?

• Was the Great Leap Forward successful?• Was he a hero or a villain?• Was he an effective leader?• What does the Cultural Revolution remind

you of?