Bell Ringer (4/5 & 4/8)•Get your map out to turn in if you have not completed and turned it in already
Questions•List four multinational organizations that were created following WWII.•List two countries involved in NATO.•List two countries involved in the Warsaw Pact.
VOCAB REVIEW• TAKE OUT YOUR VOCAB ORGANIZER AND CHECK YOUR ANSWERS/ADD INFORMATION
Rise of Communism in China
Two Chinas1.People’s Republic of China –
the Communist state on the mainland of Asia
2.Republic of China (Taiwan) – non-communist island off the coast of Asia
Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the
century = Warlords and Conflict
2.Chiang Kai-shek & the Guomindang (Nationalist Party)
3.Mao Zedong and the Communists
Vocab Check:Mao Zedong•Leader of Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976)•Led Communists on Long March• Rebuilt party and Red Army during Japanese occupation of China
Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the
century = Warlords and Conflict2.Chiang Kai-shek & the
Guomindang (Nationalist Party)3.Mao Zedong and the
Communists4.Nationalists v. Communists5.The Long March
Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the century
= Warlords and Conflict2.Chiang Kai-shek & the Guomindang
(Nationalist Party)3.Mao Zedong and the Communists4.Nationalists v. Communists5.The Long March6.End of Civil War – communists
victory & Nationalists retreat to Taiwan
Why were the Communists Successful?
1.Mao’s promise to give peasants land
2.Mao rejected traditional unequal treatment of women
Why were the Communists Successful?
1.Mao’s promise to give peasants land2.Mao rejected traditional unequal
treatment of women3.Communists use guerilla tactics
against Nationalists4.Belief by Chinese that Nationalist
govt. was corrupt5.Belief that Nationalists allowed too
much foreign influence in nation
Communism under Mao
1.Literacy Increased
2.Landlord/business classes eliminated
3.Better health care for citizens
•One party dictatorship - totalitarian•No rights
Positive Negative
The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)1.China Primarily an agricultural
country2.Mao wants to increase agricultural
and industrial output3.Farms turned into communes4.Set up smelters in all villages to
increase iron production5.Failed miserably – 35 million
starved to death & production decreased
The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)1.China Primarily an agricultural
country2.Mao wants to increase agricultural
and industrial output3.Farms turned into communes4.Set up smelters in all villages to
increase iron production5.Failed miserably – 35 million
starved to death & production decreased
Birthrate/Deathrate During the Great
Leap Forward
Vocab Check: Great Leap Forward (1958)•Program begun by Mao Zedong in China to increase agricultural & industrial output
Vocab Check:Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
•Uprising in China•Led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasant and workers in which all were equal•Goal to renew loyalty to communism and purge China of non-revolutionary tendencies
The Cultural Revolution (1966-76)1.Mao wanted to purify socialism –
eliminate the past2.Afraid of intellectuals taking over3.Red Guard – attack on schools
and education4.Many Persecuted5.Culture is impacted – many deaths/exiled6.Mao Dies in 1976
Deng Xiaoping and Modernization1.Xiaoping takes over after Mao’s
death2.Stops Cultural Revolution3.Opens relations with West4.Four Modernizations to improve
1. Farming2. technology & science3. Industry4. military defense
Modernization
1.Economy Grew2.Rise of
standard of living (for some)
3.Foreign relations and trade improved
Pros Cons1.Gap between
rich and poor widened
2.Protests for more freedom begin
Tiananmen Square1.Chinese want increased
freedoms/rights2.Protest in Tiananmen Square,
Beijing3.Govt. decides this was too
dangerous to they sent military to crush protest
4.Thousands jailed/arrested5.Illustrates order is more important
that freedom in China
A student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square, on April 22, 1989 in Beijing. They were attempting to participate in the funeral ceremony of former Chinese Communist Party leader and liberal reformer Hu Yaobang, during an unauthorized demonstration to mourn his death. His death in April triggered an unprecedented wave of pro-democracy demonstrations. (Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images)
Thousands of students from local colleges and universities march to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 4, 1989, to demonstrate for government reform. (AP Photo/Mikami)
A striking Beijing University student is given first aid by medics at a field hospital in Tiananmen Square, on May 17, 1989, the fourth day of their hunger strike for democracy. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami)
A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square which state that the student protesters should leave the Square as soon as possible, on May 22, 1989. (Reuters/Shunsuke Akatsuka)
Workmen try to drape the portrait of Mao Tse-tung in Beijing's Tiananmen Square after it was pelted with paint, on May 23, 1989.(Reuters/Ed Nachtrieb)
A citizen stands passively in front of Chinese tanks in this June 5, 1989, photo taken during the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising. (Reuters/Arthur Tsang)
Review Question•1. The Tiananmen Square massacre in China was a reaction to
A. Deng Xiaoping’s plan to revive the Cultural Revolution.
B. demands for greater individual rights and freedom of expression.
C. China’s decision to seek western inventions.
D. Britain’s decision to return Hong Kong to China.