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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong contributed to communism by attacking china while they were at their weakest point, which was after WW1. All of the lower classmen loved this idea because everyone seemed equal yet this was not the case. Yet they voted Mao as their dictator. -
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Emergence of Modern China
By the nineteenth century, China was experiencing growing internal pressures of economic origin. By the start of the century, there were over 300 million Chinese, but there was no industry or trade of sufficient scope to absorb the surplus labor. -
Great Leap Forward
This was Mao Zedong's attempt to modernize China. Mao did this so China would have a better economy than America. The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1961. This did not end very well many people ended up dying. -
The Cultural Revolution
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. He thought that current Communist leaders were taking the party and China in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China. -
Mao's Death Date
Propganda used by Mao:
He promised the peasantry land reform and redistribution, improved lifestyle in communes, modernization so as to stand against the imperial foreign powers who's advantage over China lay in their further developed economies, and of course he promised unity (something China had been struggling with for well over half a century) and equality.
He also promised women equal rights to men which meant the right to divorce, the right to work, vote, and join the military.
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Tienanman Square Massacre
Hu Yaobang had been an influential Party official. His liberated ideas caused him to be deposed from his party, but his dreams and concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of press held considerable sway over the students and young people of China. After he died, up to 100,000 students gathered at Tiananmen Square on April 21, 1989 to honor Hu's memory and protest against the autocratic communist government ruling China, demanding to meet with Premier Li Peng. This was political Freedom. -
Tienanman Square Massacre
Due to the riots, Martial law was declared in Beijing in May, and on June 3, troops and tanks were deployed to retake the square. The students stood firm in their demands for basic democratic freedoms. On 4 June 1989, between 2,000 and 4,000 students were massacred by the tanks and infantry, although exact figures have never been determined as the Chinese government suppressed the figures. A number of protestors, including senior officials, were arrested and executed in the subsequent months.
