TheRoadToCommunism

TheRoadToCommunism - Transcript

By Ms Susan M Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua NY

Dr Sun Yixian 1866 1925

Dr Sun Yat sen

Chinese Warlords 1920s

Yuan Shi kai

China in 1924

Mao Zedong As a Young Revolutionary

Mao Tse tung

Mao With His Children 1930s

Jiang Jieshi Becomes President of Nationalist China 1928

Chiang Kai shek

The Long March

Survivors of the March

Japanese Aggression 1931 1945

Victims of the Japanese bombing of Shanghai

Japanese Soldiers March into Nanking December 9 1937

The Japanese Invasion 1937

Remains of Chinese Children Bayoneted by Japanese Soldiers

Japanese Bayonet Practice

Beheadings Took Place in Public

Chinese Prisoners Were Often Beheaded Displayed

UNIT 731 Bio Chemical Warfare

UNIT 731 Live Human Dissections

The Peoples Liberation Army 1949

The Communist Victory

Taiwan The Republic of China

Jiang Jieshu 1887 1975

Chiang Kai shek

Madame Jiang Jieshu

The People s Republic of China

Reasons for the Communists Success
Mao won support of peasants land

Mao won support of women Mao s army used guerilla war tactics Many saw the Nationalist government as corrupt Many felt that the Nationalists allowed foreigners to dominate China

Great Leap Forward 1958
5 year plan to increase agriculture

and industry Communes Groups of people who live and work together Property held in common Had production quotas Failed due to poor quality of products poor weather hurt agriculture

Industrialized China Increased literacy Class privileges ended Rural Chinese received health care One party dictatorship Denied people basic rights and freedoms Inner Mongolia Tibet

Communist China Under Mao

Mao Panchen Lama Dalai Lama in Beijing 1954
Tibet an autonomous area Dalai Lama fled in the late 1950s to India

A Campaign Against the FOUR OLDS
Old Thoughts

Old Culture Old Customs Old Habits
To Rebel Is Good

Designed to renew revolutionary spirit and establish a more equitable society Mao wanted to put intellectuals in their place Schools shut down students revolted Red Guards students who attacked professors government officials factory managers

Communist China Under Mao

A Red Guard

Red Guards March to Canton

With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao cherish the word Loyalty With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought vigorously stress the word Usefullness 1968

Cult of Personality

The reddest reddest red sun in our heart Chairman Mao and us together Zhejiang Workers Farmers and Soldiers Art Academy collective 1968

Mao s Little Red Book

Propaganda Poster

Go among the workers peasants and soldiers and into the thick of struggle 1967 1972

Propaganda Poster

Propaganda Poster

Propaganda Poster

Ping Pong Diplomacy U S Players at Great Wall 1971

Mao Meets President Nixon 1972

Power Struggle
Modernists
1976

Communist Traditionalists

Zhou Enlai The Gang of Four Jiang Qin Chen Boda Wang Hongwen Yao Wenyuan

Deng Xiaoping 1905 1997

De Maoization
The 4 Modernizations Progress in
Agriculture

Industry Science Defense
Class struggle was no longer the central focus

Gap Between Rich Poor
Deng If you open a window some flies naturally get in

Tiananmen Square 1989

More democracy

Tiananmen Square 1989

Student activist Wang Dan Beijing University

Tiananmen Square 1989

Democracy Our Common Ideal

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Goddess of Democracy

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Government Clamps Down

Tiananmen Square 1989

One Lone Man s Protest

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Massacre The People s Army Moves In

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Massacre A Human Body Crushed by an Army Tank

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Army Looks for Dissidents

Tiananmen Square 1989

Student Leaders Are Arrested

Tiananmen Square 1989

Chinese Students Mourn the Dead

Tiananmen Square 1989

The Reestablishment of Order

What s the Message Here

Demography
may be no surer predictor of destiny than trade data But of the two momentous changes championed by Deng Xiaoping a quarter century ago coercive population controls and experiments with market economics the jury is still out on which will do more to shape China s long term potential

Demography

Demography
There are too many retirees in China and not enough young people to replace them

Demography
The evidence is overwhelming that a large population of unmarried adult males is a risk factor for both crime and war Ms den Boer said in an interview The fact that China is an authoritarian country is another risk factor