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AP Picture Notes China post 1945
name ________________
List three reasons why Mao’s communists defeated Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalists in the
Chinese Communist Revolution:
Great Leap Forward 1958-1960
Which animal did Mao see as a threat to the rice crop?
What happened to the rice crop after the sparrows were
killed? Why? How many people died?
What environmental disaster made this worse?
Backyard furnaces: How did Mao plan on increasing
industrial production
Conclusion: the Great leap Forward was really a
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Cultural Revolution: Red Guards
During the Great Leap Forward, who became upset with
Mao’s failed policies?
How did Mao react?
Whose help did Mao enlist? What did Red Guards do?
What were the results of the Cultural Revolution?
(see top of page)
Communism under Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
Who took over when Mao Zedong died? When?
What was Deng’s policy of economic reforms called? Which areas
were modernized?
What did Deng get rid of?
(People now lived in villages again)
What did Deng allow peasants to do?
How did Deng encourage foreign investment?
Note: Due to Deng Xiaoping, China became a huge exporter of goods
to the U.S. (discuss Wal-Mart). They now have one of the leading
economies in the world. China’s GDP is now more than 50% in the
private sector.
What were the positive results of Deng’s economic policies?
What were the negative effects?
Tiananmen Square:
May 1989, Beijing
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Cause: Students were protesting for a fifth
modernization—democracy. They didn’t get it).
(Goddess of democracy)
When the students refused to leave, what did the
government do? How many died?
Conclusion: this event showed that Deng’s
government would allow economic reform but not
_______________ reform.
One Child policy and ‘Dying Rooms’
Why did China impose the one-child
Policy?
About 30 million babies were born each year
In the 1970s.
Perhaps the most hideous Human Rights
Violation in China since WWII is the Dying
Rooms. About how many babies died in
orphanages (a.k.a. Dying Rooms) in the
1980s?
What policy led to the Dying Rooms?