-marxism and china..
-karl marx and friedrich engles
-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
-the communist society brought down nationalism and communism became their china's society later on
-named maoism after becoming the official leader
-karl marx and friedrich engles
-great leap forward and great famine..
-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 to great famine nationwide that cost more than 40 million lives
-three year national disaster
-started to protest and rebel against communist power
-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 were killed of imprisoned
-red guards created chaos in public
-liu shaoqi and deng xiaoping
-was a huge tragedy
-arrested the gang of four- yao wenyuan, juang quing, zhang chunqiao, and wang hongwen
-mao zedong..
-deng xiaoping
-tiananmen square massacre..
-1989
-first time ccp army killed civilians puiblicy
-protest was due to embezzlement, corruption, and conspiracy between government officials and businessmen
-they demanded for the freedom of press, speech and assembly
-nato..
-north atlantic treaty organization
-signed on april 4th, 1949
-you agree to a mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
-headquarters are in brissels, belgium
-today there are 28 countries
-the korean war was crucial for nato because it raised the threat level greatly
-it was our alliance against the soviet union
-de staliniztion..
-the process of eliminating th cult of personality
-cult of personality is when an individual uses mass media to breate an idealized and heroic public image
-created by joseph stalin
-peaceful co-existence..
-influenced communist states that they could peacefully coexist with capitalists states
-developed by the soviet union
-the soviet union applied it to the us and nato countries
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