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The Communists Transform China
The Cultural Revolution
Why were intellectuals targeted in the Cultural Revolution?
Mao thought China's new economic policies weakened the Communist goal of social quality. So he did everything in his power to revive the revolution and make young people to learn revolution as the answer to revolution.
The Great Leap Forward
To expand the success of the first Five-Year Plan, Mao proclaimed the “Great Leap Forward” in early 1958
By the end of 1958, about 26,000 communes had been created. The average commune sprawled over 15,000 acres and supported more than 25,000 people
life of the communes, peasants worked the land together. They ate in communal dining rooms, slept in communal dormitories, and raised children in communal nurseries. And they owned nothing.
Poor planning and inefficient “backyard,” or home, industries hampered growth. The program was ended in 1961 after crop failures caused a famine that killed about 20 million people.
Why did the United States and Soviet Union split after the war?
because of culture diffrences
Mao's brand of Marxist socialism
Mao was determined to reshape China’s economy based on Marxist socialism.
What was the benefits of reshaping the economy?
10 percent of the rural population controlled 70 percent of the farmland. Under the Agrarian Reform Law of 1950, Mao seized the holdings of these landlords.
His forces killed more than 1 million landlords who resisted. He then divided the land among the peasants.
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Why do you think the Chinese & Soviet Union began to split their friendship.
the spirit of cooperation that had bound the Soviet Union and China together began to fade
involved in political clashes as each sought to be viewed as the leader of worldwide Communist movement.
Mao's revolution had an impact on global politics
When Communist took power, they moved rapidly to strengthen their rule over China's 550 million people.
They also aimed to restore China as a powerful nation.
by dividing the country into four zones, with each of the Allied powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union) taking control of a specific zone based on where their military forces were positioned at the end of the war