Today’s video emphasizes how a

country runs when the government controls

the lives of the citizens.

How does this relate to communism?

Make a Prediction:

Background Information End of Dynasty Era

2 thousand years Hierarchical

Manchu Dynasty – 1644

Isolation Britain defeated China; forced it to open trade and exempt

British citizens from Chinese laws. Manchu government defeated by & gave in to similar

demands from other European countries and the U.S. China virtually becomes a colony.

Warlord Period

Sun Yat-sen

longtime critic of Manchus

influenced by Western ideas

wanted modern, democratic government

Warlord Period 1911 soldiers rebelled against the

Manchu Dynasty.

Sun Yat-sen failed to create a western-style democracy in China.

Instead, resulted in period of disorder with warlords (military generals) fighting to control various provinces in China.

Communist Revolution Civil War

General Chiang Kai-shek, leader of Nationalist Party, established himself president, but civil war continued.

Video Questions…. What did you learn?

Who were Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Siddhartha Gautama and how did they influence Chinese society?

How did kung fu come to be and why did the monks invent it?

What is the importance of silk? What were some important inventions and

innovations made in China? What are some uses of gunpowder? Why is the dragon a good symbol for China?

IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUCCESSFUL LEADER.

List your ideas on

your sticky note.

DAILY ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How did Mao Zedong impact the people of China and its

transition into the 21st century?

COMMUNIST REVOLUTION

Mao Zedong gets power.

wins support of peasants by collecting land from landlords and redistributing it to poor peasants

Mao leads Long March – 90,000 communist supporters over thousands of miles. 6,000 marchers survived.

COMMUNIST REVOLUTION

SG: Mao Zedong led the Chinese communists during most of the 20th century.

SG: Mao and the communists took control of china right after WW II.

COMMUNIST REVOLUTION Civil War (Nationalists vs.

PLA) resumes.

Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist supporters flee to Taiwan.

October 1, 1949, Mao declares China communist “People’s Republic of China”.

Mao says peasants share all the land.

GREAT LEAP FORWARD1958 - 1961

Mao mobilized masses to modernize China – construction of dams, reservoirs, railroads.

People gave up their land, so there was no private property.

In 1958, Chinese leader Mao Zedong started an economic plan to quickly modernize the country. The plan was called the Great Leap Forward.

GREAT LEAP FORWARD1958 - 1961

Organized China into communes where people lived together.

Ordered people to study communist values and rid themselves of improper (anti-communist) thoughts.

GREAT LEAP FORWARD1958 - 1961

Plan failed. There wasn’t equality. Former landowners publicly

“denounced” Corrupt officials Hundreds of thousands of

people died of starvation

SG: The Great Leap Forward was unsuccessful because people wanted to work for themselves and make a profit.

VOCABULARY

•Cultural Revolution—a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION1966 - 1976

SG: When Mao Zedong tried to eliminate anyone that criticized the government, this period of time was called the Cultural Revolution.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION Mao wanted to get rid of the “Four

Olds” – Old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits.

Many Communist Party officials opposed Mao’s ideas.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

SG: The name of the new army of young people Mao used to enforce his policies in the 1960s was called The Red Guard.

They humiliated, imprisoned, beat and killed thousands of “enemies” of the revolution: educated people, teachers, city dwellers, corrupt Communist Officials (and those rumored to be corrupt).

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONRed Guard traveled the

country raiding homes, museums and historical monuments, destroying anything associated w/the Four Olds.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Military and police ordered not to interfere with the Red Guards.

Communist leaders lost control of the Cultural Revolution.

Once control was lost, then it was time for the Red Guard to disband.

POWER STRUGGLE

Mao dies in 1976 and there is a power struggle.

POWER STRUGGLE

His wife, Jiang Qing and 3 colleagues gain power – Gang of Four.

Gang of Four arrested for trying to overthrow the government and causing the deaths of 34,000 people during the cultural revolution.

The perspective today

HOW DID MAO ZEDONG IMPACT THE PEOPLE OF CHINA

AND ITS TRANSITION INTO THE 21ST CENTURY?

Answer the Essential Question in ONE complete sentence.

QUIZ TIME

This quiz will assess your understanding of Mao Zedong’s role in China’s transition leading up to the 21st century.

DAILY EQ:

How did the desire for a democratic government impact the

people of China while under

communist rule?

VOCABULARY

Tiananmen Square—a massive demonstration for democratic reform, begun there by Chinese students in April of 1989.

Democracy—government by the people

ECONOMIC REFORMS OF DENG XIAOPING

In 1979 Deng Xiaoping (who had disagreed with and dismissed from his official position by Mao) becomes leader of China.

Deng shifts focus on economic reform: some privately owned farm land 4 Modernizations: which focused on science, industry, technology & defense

PROTEST FOR DEMOCRACY AT TIANANMEN SQUARE1989

SG: The students who were protesting in 1989 for greater political freedom in Tiananmen Square in Beijing were attacked by Chinese troops and many were killed or arrested.

PROTEST FOR DEMOCRACY AT TIANANMEN SQUARE

Deng sent the military who killed 700 – 3,000 students, other protesters and bystanders.

SG: The Tiananmen demonstrators had a statue, Goddess of Democracy, that was modeled after The Statue of Liberty.

YOUR TASK:Read the article and assume the role of a news reporter to complete the task of writing a news report that answers three key questions regarding the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. What were the key motivations behind the protest?

Who was involved in the protest?

What were the repercussions for the participants of the demonstration?

Can you think of an event that has been in the news that caused as much fear

for you and/or other Americans as this particular

event caused fear for the Chinese people? Explain.

Watch the video and answer the question above.

SS7H3 Review Time

Complete the study guide.Use your notes and the CRCT Coach book

to help you locate the answers to each question.

Unit Test: Tomorrow

UNIT TEST&

CHOOSE YOUR CAUSE TASK

Standard SS7H3 (History of the Southern & Eastern Asia)