Transcript File - World History

AND HIS
INFLUENTIAL REIGN
1. THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
• WHEN: February 1958
• WHAT: Massive increase in steel production
and electrical and coal output
– Industrialization of China to compete with global
market
• WHO: Everyone in the country
• WHERE: All over China
• HOW: Required by law
RESULTS?
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• 3 million people died in 3 years of
starvation and sickness
• Lost the faith of the people
• Needed to devise a plan to reacquire
power
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
(1966-1976)
• Attempt to eliminate CAPITALISM and
anyone opposing Mao’s communist
regime
BUT HOW?
1) __________________________________
• WHAT: A movement to catch and prosecute
anyone who opposed Mao’s teachings
– Spread by use of
______________________________________________
BUT HOW?
• WHO: People in their teens and twenties
• WHEN: 1966-1976
Quotes from the “Little Red Book”
• “Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and
based on the worker-peasant alliance.”
• Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never
be allowed to command the Party.
• We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our
enemies support.
• Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul…
2. PROPAGANDA
• WHAT: Posters, pictures, and pamphlets that
emphasized only positive (often false) qualities of
Mao and the Communists
• WHO: The Red Guard, Mao, & the Communists
Ping- Pong Diplomacy
• Refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players
between the United States and People's Republic of China
(PRC) in the early 1970s.
• The event marked a thaw in U.S.–China relations that paved
the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon.
• Remember! We backed the nationalist who lost to the
Communist!
Communism vs. Capitalism= Opposing ideas in
regards to social structure, economics, political
freedoms, etc…
Ping- Pong Diplomacy
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB41zC3R_hA
“The Ping heard around the world.”
1949- US/China relations are cut off
Until April 11th to 17th 1971
“You have opened a new chapter in the relations of
the American and Chinese people," Zhou Enlai
“The Ping heard around the world.”
Results:
• US lifts trade embargo with China
• Nixon becomes the first president to visit
China the following year
• "The people are just like us. They are real, they're
genuine, they got feeling. I made friends, I made
genuine friends, you see. The country is similar to
America, but still very different. It's beautiful.
They got the Great Wall, they got plains over
there. They got an ancient palace, the parks,
there's streams, and they got ghosts that haunt;
there's all kinds of, you know, animals. The
country changes from the south to the north. The
people, they have a, a unity. They really believe in
their Maoism.”- US table tennis player
Continuity or Change
1976
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping
Deng’s 4 Modernizations
• Agriculture
• Industry
Individuals are
• Science
given greater
• Defense
economic freedom.
+ Special Economic Zones
Results:
1.) Created Market Socialism
2.) Raised Standard of Living Among People
But can Deng relax economic control
and still keep tight control over the
political affairs of the Chinese?
“If you give an inch…they’ll take a
yard.”
“Tank Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU
1.) What happened in the spring of 1989?
2.) Who is the tank man?
3. What happened to him?
Tank Man Answers
1. Tiananmen Square Massacre
2. “No reliable information on his identity”
1. Possibly a 19 year old student named Wang Weilin
3. Theories:
1. Executed by firing squad?
2. Arrested for "political hooliganism" and "attempting to
subvert members of the People's Liberation Army
3. Arrested but never executed…
4. Some PRC members have claimed that they tried to find
him but never did…
5. In a 1990 interview, PRC party member stated…"He was
never arrested". "I don't know where he is now".
Tiananmen Square Massacre
1989
April – May – 100,000 students moved into Beijing, Shanghai and
other Chinese cities protesting for greater political freedom
June 3rd and 4th- Government suppressed the demonstrators by
firing into the crowd killing hundreds and injuring thousands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOYbbRB
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