PPT-The Mao Years: 1949-1977

Communist China The Good Years 19491958 China Packet III Assignment 1 Assignment 1 New Expectations Once the Nationalists were defeated Chairman Mao Zedong and Chinas Communists brought changes to every village When dedicated Communist Party members arrived in a village to enact changes he or she usually had the support of grateful peasants . Terror. Andrea, Emma, Deborah. Introduction. Terror was used as during Mao's consolidation of power.  There were primarily five different ways of terror:. 1. Labour Camps (Lao Gai). 2. Public Denunciations & Purges. Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU. The PLA reading . Mao’s . Little Red Book. Phase I: Red Guards (1966-69). 4. 8 August 1966. 16 point decision. Red Guards destroy the “four olds”:. Thought. Mao’s Legacy. Key Questions. What was Maoism?. Who were the major figures in the PRC under Mao and what were the major events during his rule?. Who were the contenders to be his successor upon his death in 1976?. L/O – To identify the factional rivalries in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and evaluate the reasons for the fall of the Gang of Four. ‘A Great and Decisive Victory’. The . 9. th. Party Congress . MAO login into . mFMS. . MAO’s can login into . mFMS. web . application. . by clicking onto ‘Registration and Data Upload Services’ on www.mfms.nic.in and providing login credentials received on mobile.. 1949 - 1976. Outline. GMD-CCP Civil War (1946-1949). Recovery and Socialism (1949-1956). Rethinking the Soviet model (1956-1957). Great Leap Forward (1958-1961). Recovery & growing elite division (1962-5). L/O – To identify the reasons why the CCP won the 2. nd. Civil War.. China in 1945. When war ended in . Aug 1945. , the CCP controlled most of the . countryside. & the KMT was stuck in . Sichuan province. “We must have faith in the masses and we must have faith in the Party. These are two cardinal principles. If we doubt these principles, we shall accomplish nothing.”. Mao Zedong. “Protect the interests of the youth, women and children - provide assistance to young students who cannot afford to continue their studies, help the youth and women to organize in order to participate on an equal footing in all work useful to the war effort and to social progress, ensure freedom of marriage and equality as between men and women, and give young people and children a useful education....”. Plus some Soviet and US relationships…. Two Chinas. 1949 . PRC Mainland. Republic of China (Taiwan). Taiwan holds legal status and UN recognition until 1979 (Carter). Communist China Goals. Single-party state led by Mao. Introductory Lesson . What does China mean to you? . What does this man mean to you? (if anything?) . Do you know any of these places? . B. C. D. A. E. F. Who was responsible for the most deaths…? . Presentation Outline. Theoretical Maoism. Overview of the Civil War in China. The Great Leap Forward. The 100 Flowers Campaign. The Cultural Revolution. Maoist Propaganda. Conclusions. Reconciliation with the West. Chairman Mao. . Chinese communist revolutionary. guerrilla warfare strategist. author . political theorist. and leader of the Chinese Revolution. . He was the architect of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949, and held authoritarian control over the nation until his death in 1976. . L/O – To analyse the impact of Mao’s . industrial policies . and evaluate their successes and failures. The CCP and Industry. As a Marxist organisation, the CCP was committed to ‘. building socialism. Mao Resigns. Mao . resigned. as President of China in . 1959. . He remained as . Chairman. of the CCP. China was now controlled by three leading Communists:. President, . Liu . Shaoqi. Prime Minister, .