Bell Ringer (4/5 & 4/8)•Get your map out to turn in if you have not completed and turned it in already

Questions•List four multinational organizations that were created following WWII.•List two countries involved in NATO.•List two countries involved in the Warsaw Pact.

VOCAB REVIEW• TAKE OUT YOUR VOCAB ORGANIZER AND CHECK YOUR ANSWERS/ADD INFORMATION

Rise of Communism in China

Two Chinas1.People’s Republic of China –

the Communist state on the mainland of Asia

2.Republic of China (Taiwan) – non-communist island off the coast of Asia

Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the

century = Warlords and Conflict

2.Chiang Kai-shek & the Guomindang (Nationalist Party)

3.Mao Zedong and the Communists

Vocab Check:Mao Zedong•Leader of Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976)•Led Communists on Long March• Rebuilt party and Red Army during Japanese occupation of China

Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the

century = Warlords and Conflict2.Chiang Kai-shek & the

Guomindang (Nationalist Party)3.Mao Zedong and the

Communists4.Nationalists v. Communists5.The Long March

Communists Rise to Power1.China in the 1st half of the century

= Warlords and Conflict2.Chiang Kai-shek & the Guomindang

(Nationalist Party)3.Mao Zedong and the Communists4.Nationalists v. Communists5.The Long March6.End of Civil War – communists

victory & Nationalists retreat to Taiwan

Why were the Communists Successful?

1.Mao’s promise to give peasants land

2.Mao rejected traditional unequal treatment of women

Why were the Communists Successful?

1.Mao’s promise to give peasants land2.Mao rejected traditional unequal

treatment of women3.Communists use guerilla tactics

against Nationalists4.Belief by Chinese that Nationalist

govt. was corrupt5.Belief that Nationalists allowed too

much foreign influence in nation

Communism under Mao

1.Literacy Increased

2.Landlord/business classes eliminated

3.Better health care for citizens

•One party dictatorship - totalitarian•No rights

Positive Negative

The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)1.China Primarily an agricultural

country2.Mao wants to increase agricultural

and industrial output3.Farms turned into communes4.Set up smelters in all villages to

increase iron production5.Failed miserably – 35 million

starved to death & production decreased

The Great Leap Forward (1958-61)1.China Primarily an agricultural

country2.Mao wants to increase agricultural

and industrial output3.Farms turned into communes4.Set up smelters in all villages to

increase iron production5.Failed miserably – 35 million

starved to death & production decreased

Birthrate/Deathrate During the Great

Leap Forward

Vocab Check: Great Leap Forward (1958)•Program begun by Mao Zedong in China to increase agricultural & industrial output

Vocab Check:Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

•Uprising in China•Led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasant and workers in which all were equal•Goal to renew loyalty to communism and purge China of non-revolutionary tendencies

The Cultural Revolution (1966-76)1.Mao wanted to purify socialism –

eliminate the past2.Afraid of intellectuals taking over3.Red Guard – attack on schools

and education4.Many Persecuted5.Culture is impacted – many deaths/exiled6.Mao Dies in 1976

Deng Xiaoping and Modernization1.Xiaoping takes over after Mao’s

death2.Stops Cultural Revolution3.Opens relations with West4.Four Modernizations to improve

1. Farming2. technology & science3. Industry4. military defense

Modernization

1.Economy Grew2.Rise of

standard of living (for some)

3.Foreign relations and trade improved

Pros Cons1.Gap between

rich and poor widened

2.Protests for more freedom begin

Tiananmen Square1.Chinese want increased

freedoms/rights2.Protest in Tiananmen Square,

Beijing3.Govt. decides this was too

dangerous to they sent military to crush protest

4.Thousands jailed/arrested5.Illustrates order is more important

that freedom in China

A student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square, on April 22, 1989 in Beijing. They were attempting to participate in the funeral ceremony of former Chinese Communist Party leader and liberal reformer Hu Yaobang, during an unauthorized demonstration to mourn his death. His death in April triggered an unprecedented wave of pro-democracy demonstrations. (Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands of students from local colleges and universities march to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 4, 1989, to demonstrate for government reform. (AP Photo/Mikami)

A striking Beijing University student is given first aid by medics at a field hospital in Tiananmen Square, on May 17, 1989, the fourth day of their hunger strike for democracy. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami)

A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square which state that the student protesters should leave the Square as soon as possible, on May 22, 1989. (Reuters/Shunsuke Akatsuka)

Workmen try to drape the portrait of Mao Tse-tung in Beijing's Tiananmen Square after it was pelted with paint, on May 23, 1989.(Reuters/Ed Nachtrieb)

A citizen stands passively in front of Chinese tanks in this June 5, 1989, photo taken during the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising. (Reuters/Arthur Tsang)

Review Question•1. The Tiananmen Square massacre in China was a reaction to

A. Deng Xiaoping’s plan to revive the Cultural Revolution.

B. demands for greater individual rights and freedom of expression.

C. China’s decision to seek western inventions.

D. Britain’s decision to return Hong Kong to China.