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- - - - China was super poor. Chinese majority population consisted of peasants. For this reason, and because Mao was born and raised a peasant, Moa believed that the peasants were the ones who deserved the land. Peasants often had nothing to eat, a very low education, and did not know how to do much other than farm.
    - - There was the fight between the peasants, represented by Mao, and the intellectuals, which included teachers, artists, lawyers, doctors, and any profession that required a formal education, which were represented by Jiang. This was the division in which most of the fighting took place. The intellectuals were also backed up by the US simply for being against communism.
    - - Not everyone agreed with what was going on. Which brings us back to the issue of the intellectuals. Mao was a dictator in the sense that what ever he said was what was going to happen, even though not everyone thought it was the best idea. We see that one of the ways that Mao was able to get into power was because he killed most of the people who opposed him.
    - - The Korean War impacted the emergence of China as an authoritarian single party state. They joined this war because they were an up and coming nation that was previously humiliated by other world powers and needed to prove themselves
  - - - Mao largely based his ideology off of marxism/leninism based in Russia. As communism emerged in China, we see many parallels between what Stalin does in Russia, and what Mao does with his country. Mao wanted to fight for and with the peasants, and give the land to those who deserved it by woking it. He believed that everyone was equal, men and women, and believed that the peasants were the future of the country.
    - - Mao's main tactics were:
        1- Guerrilla warfare, which he used to fight, and beat, Jiang's army during the civil war. His tactic of hit and run proved to be efficient because Jiang's army could never pinpoint Mao's army, leaving him with a very weak offensive.
        2- purges using secret police.
        Once Mao had taken China from Jiang's fingers, he use purges o kill off people who opposed him and his communist ideas. Any one deemed as "anti-revolutionary" would be killed in the name of China.
    - - Although there were many key players in China's rise to communism, the main man was Mao Zendong, who was at the top of both revolutions, and founght the hardest to keep communism alive in China.
        influential people in china during this time included:
        Jiang Qing- Mao wife, role model for the ideal woman in Communist China.
        Lin Biao- who was later found to be a "traitor" to the revolution, communism, and mao.
    - - Mao's whole idea is that he will fight for the peasants, and give the land to the people who deserve it. This was what he advertised the most during his campaign and fight for power. This is one of the main reasons why he had so much power, because his army had many people who were willing to fight for what they believed was rightfully theirs.