-Mao Zedong: Leader of the Communist Party in China; won the peasants' loyalty by promoting literacy and improving food production.
-Jiang Jiesh: Leader of the Nationalist Forces; dominated Southwestern China; had an army of 2.5 million people.
-Commune: Large, collective farms where peasants worked the land together in large numbers.
-Red Guards: Millions of highschool and college students who formed militia units; were originally urged to do this by Mao Zedong, though the Guard soon grew out of hand.
-Cultural Revolution: A plan whose goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal; lead by Red Guards
China was split into two, one being nationalist Taiwan and the other being the communists on the chinese mainland. The leader of the communists was Mao Zedong and Jiang Jieshi was the leader of the nationalists. The communists, which controlled the mainland, only made up one percent of the population.
Chinese and the soviets pledged to aid one another if one was attacked. Mao, like Stalin, forced people to live on communes together and silenced any resistance against him. All farmers on the communes lived and did everything with each other. The peasants on the communes had no incentive to work because the state took all of their profits. In the late 1950s china and the soviet unions peace pledge faded when the two countrys had a dispute over territory and both shared the goal of heading the communist revolution.
Mao formed the red guard, comprised of highscholl and college students, who led the cultural revolution and shut down schools. They saw the peasant as their hero and saw anyone intellectual or arts as useless and dangeress. Thousands were executed by the red guard. Even Mao eventually saw the red guard was getting out of hand and shut it down. Zhou Enlai, the communist party founder, began to restore order.
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Terms and Names
-Mao Zedong: Leader of the Communist Party in China; won the peasants' loyalty by promoting literacy and improving food production.
-Jiang Jiesh: Leader of the Nationalist Forces; dominated Southwestern China; had an army of 2.5 million people.
-Commune: Large, collective farms where peasants worked the land together in large numbers.
-Red Guards: Millions of highschool and college students who formed militia units; were originally urged to do this by Mao Zedong, though the Guard soon grew out of hand.
-Cultural Revolution: A plan whose goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal; lead by Red Guards
~Travis T.; 4th period
China was split into two, one being nationalist Taiwan and the other being the communists on the chinese mainland. The leader of the communists was Mao Zedong and Jiang Jieshi was the leader of the nationalists. The communists, which controlled the mainland, only made up one percent of the population.
Chinese and the soviets pledged to aid one another if one was attacked. Mao, like Stalin, forced people to live on communes together and silenced any resistance against him. All farmers on the communes lived and did everything with each other. The peasants on the communes had no incentive to work because the state took all of their profits. In the late 1950s china and the soviet unions peace pledge faded when the two countrys had a dispute over territory and both shared the goal of heading the communist revolution.
Mao formed the red guard, comprised of highscholl and college students, who led the cultural revolution and shut down schools. They saw the peasant as their hero and saw anyone intellectual or arts as useless and dangeress. Thousands were executed by the red guard. Even Mao eventually saw the red guard was getting out of hand and shut it down. Zhou Enlai, the communist party founder, began to restore order.
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