China Becomes Communist... Amanda Blum
Chiang Kai-Shek was a nationalist. He struggled with inflation and failing economy. He suffered from a weak leadership and poor morale. When Mao Zedong took over, Kai-Shek was forced to leave. Mao Zedong was a communist. The Communist party was originally a nationalist party. They were kicked out and went to North China, Mao became leader. When Japan invaded Kai-Shek, Mao and his army came to help. When they beat the Japanese, Mao turned on nationalist and communist army took over. On October 1, 1949, China officially became communist.
The Cultural Revolution had a massive impact on China from 1965 to 1968. It was a name given to reassert Zedong’s belief in China. The movement began September of 1965. Mao set out to create a China that had peasants, workers, and educated people working together, No one was better than anyone else and all working for the good of China. It didn’t work out because everyone though they know what’s best and went against each other.
The Tianamin Square started on April 14, 1989. It was sparked by the death on an anti-corruption official Hu Yaobang. He was a leader of the people’s republic who supported something.
NATO… Megan Schwery
De-Stalinization was started when Nikita took over. He wanted to rid Russia of Stalin’s influence. He gave a speech about how he was going to try to do this and what he was going to do. He got rid of all the statues and monuments of Stalin. It ended when he came out of power in 1964. The Russians were disappointed that it didn’t lead to more. Peaceful Co-Existence was between the Soviet Union and United States. They wanted to live in peace without worrying about being bombed or attacked. Soviet Union didn’t want to go into a nuclear war.
Story of Berlin Wall… Ashley Thielen
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 route was impassable from. The wall was 15 to 10 feet high. There 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 opened. Free passage two parts of the city for the first time in 28 years. In 1989 East and West Germans climbed the wall and celebrated. They tore down the wall with hammers and other tools. People chipped parts of the wall to keep. Fall of the wall allowed for Germans reunification.
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