1. Civil War to Cultural Revolution
Communist China
Civil War to
Cultural Revolution

2. Civil War 1928 to 1938 1946 to 1949 Mao Zedong Communists Jiang Jieshi
(Chiang Kai Shek)
Nationalists

3. Nationalists Promised to: Destroy Communism
Maintain the China’s current laws.

4. Communists Promised to: Redistribute land to peasants
Increase education
End corruption

5. Who would you support? Most peasants sided with Mao forces Why?
Promise of land and education

6. Communists
Nationalists
Nationalists

7. Victory
Communists won
Nationalists move to Taiwan.

8. Victory Communists won Nationalists move to Taiwan.
Mao and Stalin sign a treaty of friendship in 1950.
Soviet Union supports China.
US supports Taiwan.
China conquers Mongolia and Tibet.

9. Mao Alters China Collective farms Women gain equality
Government takes private businesses
Five year plan ( )
Outcome:
coal, cement, electricity (2x)
steel (4x)
“Little Red Book”

10. Great Leap Forward
Forms huge farming communes of 25,000 people.
Ate together
slept in dormitories
children were raised in nurseries.
They were paid nothing and could own nothing.
No reason to work hard.
Famine broke out and million starved!

11. Changes in the 60s 1960 Soviet Union and China have a falling out
Mao is ousted
USSR
Great Leap Forward
new leaders allowed:
Family farms
selling of crops
competition in factories for raises
bonuses and promotions

12. Cultural Revolution
1970s
Mao gets the young students to revive the revolution.
Red Guards: Militias of young people who declared war on those with privilege.
Professors
Government officials
Factory managers
Even their own parents.

13. Results of Cultural Revolution
100,000 killed or imprisoned.
“Purified” with hard labor in rural farms.
Wide spread chaos
Nearly civil war.
1976- Mao orders the army to suppress the Red Guard units.
Mao dies later that year after opening relations with the US.