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Slide 1
Revolution in China
and Communist China
(How does this compare with the
Russian Revolution and Stalin’s
Soviet Union)
This presentation relies heavily on a power point created by Dan
McDowell. Teaching Point, ©2003
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Slide 2
Background
• Manchu / Qing Dynasty maintained limited power while other nations held major concessionsin the 20th
century.
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Slide 3
QING DYNASTY FELL
• Rural & urban workers, nationalists, communists, and intellectuals protested against the government.
• The dynasty fell in 1911 and a weak provisional government took its place.
• 1911 – 1925 Chinese Republic
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Slide 4
CIVIL WAR 1925-1937
• After the provisional government failed,
the NATIONALISTS led by Chiang Kai-
shek, the COMMUNISTS led by Mao
Zedong, and various WARLORDS began
a CIVIL WAR for control of China
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Slide 5
Mao Zedong
• Led the army in
developing
guerilla warfare
tactics to fight the
Nationalists and
later the
Japanese
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Slide 6
1937 – Japan invaded China
• Communists &
Nationalists fought
the Japanese
“separately
together”.
• Communists were
more effective in
their guerilla war
against the
Japanese.
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Slide 7
Civil War Continued 1945-
1949• The West
supported the
Nationalist
Army and the
USSR sent
some support
to Mao
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Slide 8
Communist Victory
1949
• the Communists
founded the People’s
Republic of China.
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Slide 9
China under Communist
• Foreigners were kicked out
• Redistribution of land by the government
• Industrialization began
• Women gained power
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Slide 11
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Slide 12
Mao consolidated power
• Many who were nationalists, upper-class, or dissidents were imprisoned in forced labor camps or killed.
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Mao Zedong
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
“The danger of democracy lies in the fact that it wrecks the Communist Party organization and weakens or even completely undermines the Party's fighting capacity.”
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Slide 14
Social Class Changes
• Wealthy upper class
(including ruling
aristocracy) was
removed.
• Landowning class
was destroyed.
• Intellectuals attacked
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Slide 15
Great Leap Forward 1950s-
• Mao’s government took control of all the land.
• Started “back yard industrialization”
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Great Leap Forward
• The plan failed miserably – famine caused over 20 million deaths in rural areas, steel production dropped drastically.
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BOTH USSR and CHINA
• Totalitarian government and leader
– TOTAL control of all of the gov, econ, culture
• LAND collectivization /Industrialization
• “gains” in industrialization & women’s status
• Millions of political “opponents” imprisoned
and/or executed
• Millions died in famines
• U.S. and its allies are enemies
Slide 17