Restructuring The Post War World

  • Nationalists escape to Taiwan

    The Communists ousted the Nationalists when they rose to power in China.
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    The Great Leap Forward

    Mao initiated "The Great Leap Forward", and agracultural reforms policy that moved everyone onto large communes, which resulted in great famines and many deaths.
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    The Cultural Revolution

    During The Cultural Revolution, students from all around China grouped together to form the Red Gaurd, a communist group that persecuted all who did not agree with their or Mao's ideals and destroyed much of traditional Chinese culture.
  • The Fall of Saigon

    After the US' long involvment in Vietnam, the southern capital finally fell to the northern communists.
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    Khmer Rouge

    The Communist Rule in Cambodia led to one of the largest genocides in history.

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