1. Warm-Up 5/21 Who are these men?
What is this political cartoon trying to say?
Anything surprising about it?

2. Agenda 5/21 Warm Up HW Check and Review Communist China
Notes and Video
Finish “Thirteen Days”

3. Remember Mao? Q: Where did we leave Mao Zedong?
A: On the Long March, started in 1934
Q: What do you remember about Mao?
Leader of the Communists
Created the Red Army
“The Great Helmsman”
Leader of the May Fourth Movement

4. WWII and Civil War
Chinese fought on the side of the Allies during WWII
The two sides – Communists and Nationalists – united to fight the Japanese
Once the war ends, civil war resumes from

5. Communists Leader: Mao Zedong Stronghold in Northern China
Taught literacy and improved food production which gained peasants’ support
Trained in guerilla warfare
Enthusiastic about promise of returning lands to peasants

6. Nationalists Leader: Jiang Jieshi Outnumbered the Communists
Received $2 billion in aid from U.S.
Did not win popular support
Many soldiers deserted

7. The Course of Civil War
Spring 1949, major cities fall to Communists one by one
Nationalists flee south
Oct. 1949, Communists gain control of economy and proclaim it the People’s Republic of China
Jiang and Nationalist retreat to Taiwan

8. People’s Republic of China

9. People’s Republic of China
Communists
Mainland China
3.5 million square miles
Get aid from the Soviet Union
Pledge to come to the aid of the Soviets if they are attacked

10. Republic of China (Taiwan)
Nationalists
Gets aid from the U.S.
13,000 square miles

11. Spread of Communist China
Mao spreads Communism into Inner Mongolia, Tibet and India
: Infamous assault on Tibet and the Dalai Lama
Tibetans flee to India
Resentment continues

12. Mao’s Plans: Economic Recovery
Mao starts with a 5-year plan based on Marxist socialism
Seizes land and divides among peasants
Killed more than 1 mil landowners who opposed this
Forced peasants to join collective farms ( )
Women get equal rights
Nationalizes all private companies

13. The Great Leap Forward
Mao’s initial plans succeed…but then comes the Great Leap Forward (1958)
Collective farms become communes
15,000 acres; average of 25,000 people
“Production battalions”
NO individual ownership
Huge failure
Poor planning hampered growth
Crop failures led to a giant famine (20 mil die)

14. The Cultural Revolution
Mao backs off at first
Soviet Union stops economic aid 1960
1966: Mao launches the Cultural Revolution
Red Guards = militia composed of mainly high school and college students
Goal: establish a society of peasants and workers where ALL are equal
Intellect and artistic skill considered useless
Schools shut down
Thousands die or are executed