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Chiang Kai Shek

May-ling evacuated chiang and his son to Taiwan

Moved government to Taipai, Taiwan

Marxism and China

Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

The study of Marxism in China was started by Mao.

It was promised great riches for China

Marxism influenced many people to support Mao and his society of communism

This communist society brought down nationalism and communism became their china's society later on

Named Maoism after becoming the official leader

85% of this country supported Maoism

great leap forward and Great Famine

1958- 1962

the great leap forward was a campaign by the CCP

Everyone in China has to be involved in steel- making

Major economic disaster

Farmers left their crops which was 85% of them

Led ti Great Famine- nationwide famine that cost more than 40 million lives

Three Year Natural Disaster

Millions starved and they became a very poor nation

Started to protest and rebel against communist powers

Cultural revolution

May 16, 1966

Betrayal within the communist party

Communist leaders all went different directions and created chaos

Communists fought for leadership of the CCP

hundreds of millions of innocent Chinese people were killed or imprisoned

Red Gaurds created chaos in public

Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping

Was a jhuge tragedy

Arrested the Ganag of Four Yao Wenyuan, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, and Wang Hongwen

Mao Zedong

Lost trust in many of CCPs top leaders

Suffered from neuron heart disease

In September 2, 1976, severe heart atttack

Died 6 days later

Tiananmen Square Massacre

1989

First time CCP army killed civilians publicly

Protest was due to embezzlement, corruption, and conspiracy between government officials and businessmen

They demanded for the freedom of the press, speech and assembly

NAOT- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Signed on April 4, 1949

You agree to a mutual defense in response to an attack by an external party

Headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium

Treaty of Brussels was ther precursor to the NATO agreement

There are 28 countries omvolved

The Korean war was crucial for NATO because it raised the threat level greatly

The process of eliminating the cult of personality

Cult of personality= when an individual uses mass medua to create an idealized and heroic public image

created by Joseph Stalin

INfluenced communist states that they could peacefully coexist with capitialist states

Developed by the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union applied it to the US and NATO countries

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