2. After WWII, Chinese Civil War
Communist vs. Nationalists
Communists won, led by
Mao Zedong
Reasons for Communist victory
Popularity with peasants-
land redistribution
Ended oppression from
landlords
Decreased taxes on the poor
Chinese Communists conquer
Tibet in 1959
3. Chinese govt. discouraged
Buddhism and
Confucianism
Govt took property from
landlords and business
owners
Some Chinese middle class
citizens were opposed to
the communist revolution
Beaten, sent to labor camps,
killed
Built dams and factories
Collectivization- pooling
peasant land/labor to
increase productivity
4. 1958-1960
Mao-Zedong’s program to increase
output and productivity
Urged people to increase farming
efforts
Set up communes
“Great Leap” failed
No individual incentive
Less production
Famine
55 million starved to death
5. 1966- plan to purge China of
“bourgeois” tendencies
Encouraged young
generations to experience
revolution
Red Guards
Groups of teens
Attacked those considered
“bourgeois”
“little red book”- Quotations
from Chairman Mao Zedong
6. China and Soviets were
loose allies
Mistrust, border disputes
1960- Soviets withdraw all
aid to China
U.S. saw the opportunity to
use china to isolate the
Soviet Union
1971-Allowed China to
replace Taiwan in the United
Nations
1979- U.S. set up formal
diplomatic relations with
China
7. Open your book to p. 802-803
Look at the series of maps at the bottom of the
page
8. Read War Comes to Korea and Two Koreas on
p. 803-805 and answer the following questions
in your notes:
What types of governments did North and South
Korea have?
What countries supported either side?
Who was Kim Il Sung?
Who was Syngman Rhee?
Why did China get involved in the Korean War?
Compare/Contrast the economies of North and
South Korea.
