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- - - - War
        
        Civil war: Mao was successful with this which gained more recognition and was able to get rid of the republic of china. He was able to gain control
        
        Long March: The long march wasn't a war however because of it Mao was able to gain more power since he was successful. It also gained him the support of his party members.
      - 1930: Mao and communist established themselves in south-central china. Mao recruited peasants in the red army and trained them in guerrilla warfare.
      - Weakness of political system
        
        -Long March showed that the CCP and Red Army could reach an area that the nationalists could not reach
        -Almost everybody disliked the GMD
    - - Ideologym + propoganda
        
        Maoism: A form of socialism where the most important people are the peasants, not the factory workers
        
        Posters helped to enforce that Mao was supposedly creating a patriotic movement as a way to gain followers
      - The use of force
        
        Rectification campaigns: The imposition of military control. Mao did this to consolidate his leadership of the cpc. This eliminated many of the divisions of the party.
        
        Mao targeted intellectuals and brainwashed them to support him. He also used red guards to silence the people who opposed him
- - - - Mass Campagins
        
        Cultural Revolution
        
        The campaign launched by Mao in 1966 to rectify the Communist Party, which he and others felt was 'following the capitalist road. It ended in 1976.
      - The Cultural Revoltion
        
        in 1966 , Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to restore his authority over the Chinese goverment. Believing that current communist leaders were taking China in the wrong direction. So Mao wanted to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society
      - The Little Red Book
        
        Mao passed out this book contains all his phrases and quotes , mostly targeted at younger people , and they were forced to recite them and memorize them.
    - - Mao Zedong used propaganda to eliminate his opponents and to distract the public's opinion away from subhuman living conditions using methods such as loudspeakers, local work groups, committees, propaganda teams, political study groups, reading newspapers was a political obligation, slogans, posters, patriotic churches, and prop performers
  - - - Soviets sent a great deal of military equipment that had to be paid by China and China ended up having 3 million troops located in Korea. With those troops there was some criticism towards China's unsuccessful involvement in Korea, especially as a result of foreign influence. This was a successful within the power of Mao because it was seen as an opportunity to launch mass campaigns , and eliminate large swaths of opposition.
    - - China became more financially dependent on the Soviet Union , China's military prowess convinced Stalin that they were a useful alley.
    - - This war was outbursted over territories , which strengthen the relations to great offence of China
    - - The USSR supported China through a $300 million loan , which allowed the country to start developing economically. However , this debt was eventually repaid entirely and Mao kept the country free of foreign debts or other constraints.