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Mao Zedong, of the Communists, defeated Jiang Jeishi of the Nationalists. Jiang Jeishi and his army then fled to Taiwan, and Mao renamed China the people's republic of China.
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The Great Leap Forward was a great big failure. The population was forced to work on large collective farms called communes, and everyone was ultimately unhappy.
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The Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong, was a social-political movement in the People's Republic of China. It aimed to wipe out all nationalism.
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The Khmer Rouge were the followers of the Communist party in Cambodia.
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The fall of Saigon was the capture of the capital of South Vietnam by the People's Army of Vietnam.