Mao_Cifuentes_Chatman
Aims and results of policies
Consolidation and maintenance of power
Emergence of authoritarian states
Domestic
Foreign
Economic Factors
First Five Year Plan (1953-57)
Sino-American Relations (1953-61)
The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1957)
The Great Leap Forward (1958-62)
Larger communes pushes people towards socialism
Private ownership abolished
Peasants attempt to industrialize
Impact of the War
Build up of weapons
Caused the relationship between Mao and Jiang to collapse (1944)
Industrialization
Mao had consolidated his leadership of the CPC. (1945)
Aimed to let people share opinions about the party or state
Struggle Sessions and Punishments
Mao earned a great wave of support for his leadership and strengthened the position of the CPC.
Sino-Soviet Relations (1953-61)
Mao and the CPC defeated the Jiang and the GMD. This leads to Mao being under full control of China by 1949.
Relaxed Tensions with Japan
Mao embraces the U.S.
Mao befriends the U.S. in an attempt to undermine the USSR.
Mao believes that Khrushchev wants to isolate the PRC.
Relations slightly improved after Stalin's death
The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1957)
Weakness of political system/social division
Collectivization
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Agrarian Reform (1950)
Redistribution of all land in China
The perception that Western powers were attempting to exploit China for their own political and economic gain The Open Door Policy (1898).
Marriage Reform (1950)
Both partners had to agree to marry
Filing for divorce is possible
Other Basic Rights
Ruling Elite that exploited the peasants as a class.
Women able to own property
Women could not be sold into prostitution
These rights were reverted after the Five Year Plan
Mao gaining support from the peasants by promising them land and an equal social class.
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A larger peasant population will support Mao in the build up of his leadership
The 'Warlord Era' (1916-27)
GMD was the central government with limited power or control over the state. (1929-49)
First Five Year Plan (1953-62)
Anti-Rightist Movement (1957)
The Politburo
GMD focusing on getting rid of CPC instead of the Japanese. (1931)
Cult of Personality
Socialist Education Movement
Aimed to foster collectivism,patriotism and socialism
By the second part of the civil war, we see the people of China supporting Mao more because his focus was more on defeating Japan instead of the GMD.
Rapid Industrialization
Economic Improvments
Help Mao in leadership decisions
Struggle Sessions induce fear
Discouragement of speaking out against Mao or the party
More support towards Mao
Mao or the party should not be criticized
GMD didn't have a strong government army and began to leave rural parts of China under the control of landlords/warlords.
Mao seen as a god
Marriage Reform (1950)
Appeals to a large demographic
Persuasion and Coercion-
Long March (1934)
The role of the leaders : Mao became the head of the CCP- He was influenced by Marxism and Stalinism for the CCP- He idolized and prioritized the peasants.
Ideology: Maoism
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