Amanda Blum; China Becomes Communist-Chiang Kai-Shek was a nationalist- struggled with inflation and failing economy-He suffered from a weak leadership and poor morale-Mao Zedong took over, Kai-Shek was forced to leave- was a communist-communist party-originally a nationalist party-they were kicked out and went to North China,-Mao became leader-Japan invaded Kai-Shek, Mao and his army came to help-they beat the Japanese-Mao turned on nationalist and communist army took over-on October 1, 1949, China became communistAshley Thielen; Story of Berlin Wall-Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev had built a wall in 1961- People were trying to get from the easy to the west of Berlin-The wall divided the east and west of Berlin- The wall was 15 to 10 feet highThere was barbed wire, guard dogs and machine guns- Ronald Reagan encouraged Gorbachev to allow people of East Berlin to develop their own government-November 9, 1989, East Germany announced the wall was openedFree passage 2parts of the city for the first time in 28 years- Germans climbed the wall and celebrated.- tore down the wall
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