Post World War 2

  • Nationalists escape to Taiwan

    The Nationalists lost the war and escaped to Taiwan (they named the capitol)
  • Great Leap Forward

    Mao's Great Leap Backwards. When everything in China went into communes and many people got sick.
  • Cultural Revolution

    Mao led a Cultural Revolution with the Red Guards who were children who left their classrooms and formed the Red Guards militia
  • Fall of Saigon

    When Saigon was captured it was renamed Ho Chih Minh
  • Khmer Rouge

    Communist rebels that set up a Communist government under Pol Pot