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Mao zedong
Mao Zedong grew up as a peasant. He went to college where they focused on class struggle. Mao led the communist revolution in China and also fought against the nationalist Party. Mao used propaganda in a way which made communism look like a good thing. -
Communism in china
The communist party of china was formed under Mao Zedong in 1921 -
famine
famine means scarcity of food. During the great leap forward there was a lot of famine. There so was so much that thousands of people died from starvation! During this time people were so hungry they would even eat dirt! -
red guards
Red Guards or hong wei bing militants were people in their teens and 20s who supported the shake-ups within the Communist Party in the Cultural Revolution. Clutching the Little Red Book of quotations from Chairman Mao, they terrorised "closet capitalists". -
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 -
little red book
Mao Zedongs little red book was a book filled with all his speeches and citings from his life as the ruler oif china -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping came into power after Mao Zedong death in july 1977 -
political feedom
China started to get freedom in the late 1970's after ruler Zao Deng died. -
Four Moderns
The Four Modernizations were goals first set forth by Zhou Enlai in 1963, and enacted by Deng Xiaoping, starting in 1978, to strengthen the fields of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology in China. -
Tianenman square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within -
great leap forward
Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) As a result of the successful economic reconstruction that had taken place in the early 1950s under the First Five Year Plan, the Party leadership headed by Mao Zedong considered the conditions ripe for a Great Leap Forward
