1. communism
containment
revolution
peasant
collective farm
commune
famine
Red Guards
human rights
Marxism
the Long March
the Red Army
Born in China – son of a peasant farmer
Program to speed up Chinese econ. development
Studied Marxism
Member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Created huge farms with almost 25,000 people
Grew crops - ran industries, schools and hospitals
Founder of the Red Army
Droughts and floods caused famine and disease
Leader of the Long March (1934)
20 million deaths from 1958 - 1960
Mao created and encouraged the
development of communism in China
Failure of this program created
negative concerns among the people
designed to remove opposition to the
100 acre square located in Beijing
Communist Party (CCP) in 1966 - 1969
College students held a protest for democracy and
Supporters of the revolution were the Red Guards human rights
Punished people who spoke out against the CCP/ Happened on June 4, 1989 – shown on TV around
Mao OR if they had Western ways, contacts, ideas the world – military killed 100’s and 1000’s injured
created a distrust of the Communist government
encouraged the Communist
government to improve human rights/democracy
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