throughout Eurasia. After the Second World War‚ the Communist party of China takes over and in 1949‚ Mao Zedong is put in place as the first communist leader of China (Caplan). The communist party created many changes in the continent of Asia‚ such as communism spreading to other parts of Asia such as Vietnam and Cambodia. After Stalin’s death‚ Mao Zedong starts to become more like Stalin. In 1958‚ Mao starts a program called the Great Leap Forward‚ which was an aggressive plan to move poor farmers
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words Since 1949‚ Mao created People Republic of China‚ he became a leader in almost 27 years. The establishment of new China marks the opening of a new age. With the establishment of People’s Republic of China‚ Mao Zedong outlining general goals and main course for transforming China from agricultural country to industrial‚ and from new-democratic society to socialist. In the main time Mao also set up foreign relationships with other country. The reason why Mao was doing this is because
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Republic of China was marked by caution and restraint. The Communists did not want to alarm the masses with ideological discussion and party politics. The people were more interested in peace and the cessation of civil strife. Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong spoke of the creation of a strong state power and the economic revamping of the
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The Cold War: Communist China The Cold War was a tension-filled period that started when the anti-communist beliefs and the anti-democracy beliefs clashed. The main conflict in the Cold War was between the Soviet Union and the United States of America‚ and it lasted from 1947 to 1991 (44 years). From the USA point of view‚ communism was an idea that wasn’t right. The country believed that the world would be a much better place if communism was replaced by democracy. However‚ the countries that supported
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Origin of World War II in the Asian-Pacific Region Why did Japan ultimately decide to start World War II by invading China in 1937 and then worsen the conflict by attacking the British and Americans in 1941? Were these attacks the effects of a Japanese state with an extreme belief of nationalism‚ or of a particularly coercive social order‚ or of economic and social inequalities‚ or had Japan by the late 1930s entered a stage of late capitalist development that naturally evolved into fascism? Was
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industrialization process until about the 1950’s with the establishment of the People’s Republic ( october 1949).Between 1949 and 1978 Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party established a socialist planned economy based on abolition of property‚rural collectivization and central planning. Thus‚ the turning points in China’s economy growth are the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the economic reforms‚ under Deng Xiaoping‚ in 1978 according to free market principles‚ opening up trade and investment
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the new People’s Republic was Mao Zedong. When the communists took over China they implemented many new ideas that were supposed to bring China up to speed in regards to the industrial development. He started the five year plan in which the people and government of China was to focus on the development of industry and to challenge the old ways of thinking. The old ways were called "the four olds" these were habits‚ ideas‚ customs‚ and cultures. After three years Mao asked for feedback of all of the
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women also had the job of tea picking. In that time‚ people believed that women who picked tea would turn out to be good woman and caused them to be better respected through their hard work (Lu). The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958-1961. Mao Zedong called for the farms to become government ruled. The Great Leap Forward lead shortages of grain yields as well as the starvation of many (Han). The Cultural Revolution took place after as another result of the Great Leap Forward. The Cultural Revolution
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Tensions between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II The United States and the Soviet Union were never in a completely stable relationship. World War II had both nations working together‚ but partly only because Germany was a common enemy of them both. Roosevelt did not agree with communism‚ but would work alongside Stalin in order to stop a bigger issue‚ the Nazis. By helping each other out‚ they became part of the Big Three along with Britain. However‚ even working together
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(April 1950) recommended that the US abandon ’containment’ and start to ’roll back’ Communism. Cold War - Truman and Stalin were in a battle for world domination – Korea was a ‘war at arm’s length’. - Kim Il Sung - got Stalin’s and Mao tse Tung’s agreement to attack South Korea. Syngman Rhee - (1950) – boasted he would attack North Korea – gave an excuse. Events (5 phases) By June 1950 - the NKPA captured most of South Korea from the ROKs. July
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