Communism spreads in east asia

Communism spreads in east asia

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  Ch. 30, sec.3
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   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
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   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
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   1958-1960  Mao-Zedong’sprogram 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 
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   1966- planto 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
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   China andSoviets 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
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   Open yourbook to p. 802-803  Look at the series of maps at the bottom of the page
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   Read WarComes 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.