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After the rival Communists led by Mao Zedong gain control of China, the Nationalist government led by Jiang Jieshi knew it would be punished. They fled to Taiwan and created a Nationalist state.
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Mao wanted to increase China's production. The Great Leap Forward created large collective farms callid communes, which were poorly planned and caused a famine that killed about 20 million people.
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The student-formed Red Guards started the Cultural Revolution which was intended to form a society where all were equal. The worker was celebrated, while the intellectual were punished.
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The Khmer Rouge were Cambodian Communist rebels who set up a terrible government led by Pol Pot. His followers killed over two million people, almost a quarter of the population. The Vietnamese took over in 1978.
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The North Vietnamese troops invaded the capital of South Vietnam. U.S. troops and officials evacuated the area and Vietnam slowly became a Communist state.
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