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Restructuring the Postwar World

  • Nationalists Escape to Taiwan

    Nationalists Escape to Taiwan
    In 1942 the Communists and Nationalists of China got into a war. The Communists ended up winning the war and defeating the Nationalists, who decided to travel to Taiwan.
  • Great Leap Forward

    Great Leap Forward
    The Great Leap Forward was a plan made by Mao Zedong. It was for large collective farms or communes. It was a strict life with people eating in communal rooms and having communal dormitories and nurseries. The "Great Leap Forward" ended up tampering with industrial growth and they had many crop failures.
  • Cultural Revolution

    Cultural Revolution
    The Cultural Revolution was created by the Red Guards. It was a pland to establish a society of workers and peasants and made sure everyone was equal.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was when the North Vietnamese attacked the South Vietnamese in Saigon. 1.5 million fleed from and 200,000 people who escaped Vietnam died because the boats were too overcrowded
  • Khmer Rouge

    Khmer Rouge
    The Khmer Rouge was a group of Communist rebels in Cambodia. Pol Pot was the leader of this governement and he ended up killin 2 million people.