Today Amanda started her presentation. Its over China becoming Communist.
-Chaing Kai-Shek was a nationalist. He struggled with infatuation and a failing enconomy. He suffered from weak leadership and poor morale. When Mao Zedong became the leader we didnt think of him as the leader because he was communist. Mao Zedong was communist. He attracked peasants with promises of land reform. He benefitted from high motivation and leadership. The communist party was origionally nationalist party but they were kicked out and went to North China. Mao became the leader. When Japan invaded Kai-Shek, Mao came and helped. When they beat the Japanese, Mao turned on the Nationalists and the communist army took over. The cultural revolution had a huge impact on China from 1965-1968. Mao set out to create a China that had peasants, workers, and educated people working together. No one was better then anyone else and all were working for the good of China. This didnt work because everyone thought they knew what was best and they went against eachother. The U.S. was very concerned that the dominoe effect was going to happen and that pretty soon everyone was going to become communist. But, luckily China and the Soviet Union didnt get along very well. Tianamin Square was a protest and it was led by students. It was sparked by the death of and anti communist official, Hu Yadang. He was a leader of the peoples republic.....Communism started falling in the surrounding countries and they thought it was gonna happen there, but it didnt. They are still communist today.
Then I finished my presentation. I think I did ok.
Then Ashley did her presentaion.
Nikita Khrushchev had a wall built in 1961. It goes all the way aroung west Berlin. The wall devided east from west Berlin. The wall contained democracy. It was 10-15 feet high. There was barbed wire, patrols, gurad dogs, and machine guns. Reagan encouraged Gorbachev to allow poeple of east Berlin to develop their own government. Reagan wanted Gorbachev to tear down the wall. On Nov. 9, 1989 the wall was opened up. The east and west Germans climbed the wall and celebrated. They tore down the wall and some people kept pieces of it. This allowed poeple to reunite.
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