Transcript mao zedong

MAO ZEDONG
•Mao Zedong was the leader of
China’s Communist Party.
•He convinced China’s peasants to
overthrow their weak government
and install Mao as “Chairman”
• He encouraged the killing of all
“capitalists” in his country.
•Capitalism is the enemy of
Communism.
•Mao killed millions of people
when he created his communist
“utopia”.
•Communism is designed to be a “permanent revolution”.
•For this reason, communists are always in a state of war.
•Communism is very strict and not very peaceful.
•Propaganda spread Mao’s message
throughout China, brainwashing the
public.
•Propaganda is the advertising of
political points of view. Propaganda
is generally untrue.
•Both Russia and China used
propaganda to make the United States
And its economic system seem evil.
•In the 1960s, Mao begins his “Cultural Revolution”.
•Millions of people die when angry brainwashed mobs
tear the country apart.
•Mao’s Little Red Book becomes the most widely read in China.
9-9-1976: Mao Dies
•On his death, Mao brags that he had “burned more
books than any emperor.”
•After Mao’s death, his friends were charged with
Numerous political crimes.
•After Mao died, Deng Xioaping
took control of China.
•He understood that Mao’s Cultural
Revolution was a failure.
•Deng encouraged business owners
to begin trading with foreign
countries.
•Capitalism began to take hold in China.
•Deng was named Time’s Man of the
Year.
DENG XIOAPING
China today
•New leader is Xi Jinping
•China is beginning to embrace capitalism
•We want to be China’s friend, but we don’t like the
way they treat people.