MAO ZEDONG AND HIS INFLUENTIAL REIGN 1 THE

MAO ZEDONG AND HIS INFLUENTIAL REIGN

1. THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD • WHEN: February 1958 • WHAT: Massive increase in steel production and electrical and coal output – Industrialization of China to compete with global market • WHO: Everyone in the country • WHERE: All over China • HOW: Required by law

RESULTS? GREAT LEAP BACKWARDS ___________________ • 3 million people died in 3 years of starvation and sickness • Lost the faith of the people • Needed to devise a plan to reacquire power

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966 -1976) • Attempt to eliminate CAPITALISM and anyone opposing Mao’s communist regime

BUT HOW? 1) THE _________________ CULTURAL REVOLUTION • WHAT: A movement to catch and prosecute anyone who opposed Mao’s teachings – Spread by use of THE RED GUARD AND LITTLE RED BOOK _______________________

BUT HOW? • WHO: People in their teens and twenties • WHEN: 1966 -1976

Quotes from the “Little Red Book” • “Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. ” • Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. • We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support. • Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul…

2. PROPAGANDA • WHAT: Posters, pictures, and pamphlets that emphasized only positive (often false) qualities of Mao and the Communists • WHO: The Red Guard, Mao, & the Communists

Ping- Pong Diplomacy • Refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970 s. • The event marked a thaw in U. S. –China relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon. • Remember! We backed the nationalist who lost to the Communist! Communism vs. Capitalism= Opposing ideas in regards to social structure, economics, political freedoms, etc…

Ping- Pong Diplomacy • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=WB 41 z. C 3 R_h. A

“The Ping heard around the world. ” 1949 - US/China relations are cut off Until April 11 th to 17 th 1971 “You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people, " Zhou Enlai

“The Ping heard around the world. ” Results: • US lifts trade embargo with China • Nixon becomes the first president to visit China the following year

• "The people are just like us. They are real, they're genuine, they got feeling. I made friends, I made genuine friends, you see. The country is similar to America, but still very different. It's beautiful. They got the Great Wall, they got plains over there. They got an ancient palace, the parks, there's streams, and they got ghosts that haunt; there's all kinds of, you know, animals. The country changes from the south to the north. The people, they have a, a unity. They really believe in their Maoism. ”- US table tennis player

Continuity or Change 1976 Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping

Deng’s 4 Modernizations • Agriculture • Industry Individuals are • Science given greater • Defense economic freedom. + Special Economic Zones Results: 1. ) Created Market Socialism 2. ) Raised Standard of Living Among People

But can Deng relax economic control and still keep tight control over the political affairs of the Chinese? “If you give an inch…they’ll take a yard. ”

“Tank Man” https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ye. Fze. NAHEh. U 1. ) What happened in the spring of 1989? 2. ) Who is the tank man? 3. What happened to him?

Tank Man Answers 1. Tiananmen Square Massacre 2. “No reliable information on his identity” 1. Possibly a 19 year old student named Wang Weilin 3. Theories: 1. Executed by firing squad? 2. Arrested for "political hooliganism" and "attempting to subvert members of the People's Liberation Army 3. Arrested but never executed… 4. Some PRC members have claimed that they tried to find him but never did… 5. In a 1990 interview, PRC party member stated…"He was never arrested". "I don't know where he is now".

Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 April – May – 100, 000 students moved into Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities protesting for greater political freedom June 3 rd and 4 th- Government suppressed the demonstrators by firing into the crowd killing hundreds and injuring thousands https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=k. OYbb. RB U 5 E 8 Begin @ 1: 00 Re-Start @ 27: 00 Finish @ 37: 00