Struggles of the Republic

Read your assigned section and answer the questions◦ Nationalism◦ Democracy◦ Livelihood

Share with your group members who worked on different sections to complete all questions

Read your assigned section and answer the questions◦ Nationalism◦ Democracy◦ Livelihood

Share with your group members who worked on different sections to complete all questions

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Summary

Mao Zedong

Which political ideas were the people going to listen to? Who had the right to rule?

Nationalists vs. Communists

Feeling threatened, Chiang launched a massive campaign against the Communist army

Outnumbered, Communists begin to flee

90,000 Chinese began

7,000 Chinese finished

90,000 Chinese began

7,000 Chinese finished

Traveled 6,000 miles from Southeast China to Northwest Province of Shaanxi

Traveled 6,000 miles from Southeast China to Northwest Province of Shaanxi

KMT: Kuomintang (Nationalist Party)◦ Chiang Kai-shek (President)

CCP: Chinese Communist Party◦ Mao Zedong

A revolution to remove “3 big mountains”◦imperialism◦feudalism◦bureaucrat-capitalism

A “United Front” of …◦workers◦peasants

1/10/1949, PRC, Beijing◦ Chairman: Mao Zedong

Republic of China government retreated to Taiwan

1. Won support of huge peasant population by promising land and food

2. Won support of women by promising to reject traditional beliefs of Confucius

3. Many people across the country blamed the Nationalists for allowing the “foreign devils” to dominate in China