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. Consolidation of power 1949 - 57. Problems and challenges for Mao´s regime. Infrastructure; considerable damages after so many years of war.. Economy: corruption wide spread; inflation high; industry undeveloped; - major reconstruction needed.. L/O – To identify and explain the political changes made by Mao in the years 1949-1957. The ‘One-Party State’. From 1949 China became a . one party state. . All other parties were suppressed in a series of . 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. L/O – To identify how Mao took control of the CCP. Tasks. Make a timeline of Mao’s rise to power from 1919-1937. Include a brief description of each event (50 words max).. What were the most important events in Mao’s rise to power? Why? (try to identify at least 3 events). L/O – To examine the political, economic and social changes to China in the post-war reconstruction period. “Now I have power, what problems does China face?”. 中国人民从此站起来了. !. 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. L/O – To evaluate why Mao launched the Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns of 1956-57. Impact of the First Five Year Plan. By 1956 the . rapid industrialisation . of the First Five Year Plan was putting Chinese society under . 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. . 1949-1976. The Life of Mao Zedong: Childhood. 1875. 1893. 1907. 1910. The Life of Mao Zedong: School Years. 1911. 1913. 1919. 1920. The Life of Mao Zedong: Political Involvement & early days of the CCP.