Thursday, May 20th.

-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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