ChinaColonialism to the Modern

Objective 1: Summarize the history of China.Objective 2: Explain the difference between a Command and Market EconomyObjective 3: Discuss the modern politics between China and the international community

The End of the Dynasties

• Last dynasty was the Qing• Opium Wars with the British – Forced China to accept domination by foreign

powers– Sphere of influence

• Revolutions in 1911 and 1912 the Qing lost power completely

Civil War

• China dominated by Japan during WWII• Revolutionary movement following the war• Nationalist forces (Chiang Kai-shek) fought

Communist forces (Mao Zedong). • 1949 – Communists win, Nationalists flee to

set up gov’t in Taiwan

Mongolia’s Revolution

• Mongolia’s Communist leaders won independence from China in 1921.

Command vs. Market Economy

• Command economy: economic system based on government planning and control.

• Market economy: economy in which individual consumers and producers make all economic decisions.

Tiananmen Square

Great Leap Forward

• Introduced by Mao in 1958• Steel became the focus. Result?• More than 30 million Chinese died between

1958 and 1962!• Economic plan ignored the needs of the

people!

Politics

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