Containment of Communism
how it DID work
Communism
This is a brief introduction about communism.
The Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong didn't want his country to think about anything but communism. He and his wife banned all religious beliefs and thoughts in traditions.And i quote," His wife Madame Mao, led the revolution and controlled Chinese culture and society". he put an end to anything other than communism. He'd kill or punish anyone who'd dare disobey him. He also censored and totally disconnected his whole country from anything to do with the outside world. all he wanted to do was drill communism is a good thing into his citizens heads. all they knew about was communism. they didn't have a change to learn about other rights from other places in the world. So basically Mao Zedong ( the father of communism) molded, twisted, and drilled into the citizens brains were "Communism, Communism, Communism and Communism. Communism great communism is all you need and just so much more." He tricked the citizens ( especially the higher class ones) that everything needed to be equal. | The Great Leap Forward Mao Zedong wanted a more powerful government. He believed that china needed to become a more industrialized facility. With everyone at work no one was able to care for the crops and without any food around famine began to spread. Slowly one by one increasing rapidly the citizens began to die due to starvation, lack of food. Mao mad all of the farmers make steel and work in the industrial revolution. Many women however appreciated this because they never used to get equality because the guys would most likely run the house or have the job and the women would just have to stay home and work. the women were happy that they would finally be given a chance to be treated equally and actually have a job that wasn't taking care of the kids and/or the house. The poor people was also very happy because they'd get treated a lot better and the higher class wouldn't have been labeled the higher class. Now they make the same money and live in the same type of house. They were no longer labeled as the "Lower Class". Mao Zedong wanted to make his citizens one again think that communism was a good thing. | The long march Mao Zedong and the red army was thrown out by Chiang Kai Shek in 1925. When this occurred Mao created the CC, with his red army and they began their 6000 mile long journey where they brought millions of peasants and women to their side, agreeing to communism. Eventually Mao gathered enough people and they took over and turned North Korea into a communist government. However, Mao did NOT succeed in sucking in South Korea as well. A total of 93000 people were killed during his process of taking over North Korea. Mao studied all about communism at the Beijing university. He convinced people that communism was god and that it'd benefit everyone. Women liked it because they were finally being given the chance to be equal and live up to the same rights all the male citizens. The peasants liked it because they'd finally have as much money, same house, basically everything a past rich person or as they say the " upper class had" Classes were totally demolished so finally everyone was to be treated equally. However many citizens wanted democracy or a more free government such as ht e middle or high class because when Mao made everything equal he basically down scaled the other classes. |
The Cultural Revolution
The Great Leap Forward
The long march
How communism was over all contained
Only five countries out of the whole world is communist. They are currently in the process of changing so the citizens can have more freedom. I believe eventually the five communist countries will end up not being communist later on. " Slow and steady " right? Mao Zedong wanted a communist government and he overruled the KMT to get what he wanted, with support from Russia and China. Mao Zedong also grew up as a peasant so he wanted equality. Mao Zedong really wanted communism because that means that no one will be greater than anybody else, just like he wanted while growing up.And i quote," By the end of august, all UN forces were in the pasan perimeter"-thins is like saying that communism was contained in one area. And i also quote,"South Korea has become a prosperous country embracing democratic ideals"- This to me is saying that north Korea was communist but south Korea was not, so like it DIDN'T fall under communism. this proves the domino theory wrong... i think that's probably why its called domino THEORY.
The Korean War Mao Zedong invaded South Korea in attempt to turn it into a communist government. This was called the Korean war. The United states involvement was to attempt to end the future domino theory. Many other countries became communist in that area as well. The United states was very worried that the United states would eventually become communist as well. Currently there are United states troops standing and waiting for a country to attempt to attach another country at the 38th parallel, where the country was divided. I quote the Korean article," The Korean war is also referred to as in a seesaw war because one side would take over land and then he other side would get it back". so basically the fighting was just overall useless(my opinion)The war killed maybe people and injured many more. | The Vietnam War Vietnam was divied into two parts as well. The South was the non communist side and in the North it was the communist side. The North invaded the south and attempted to try and turn it communist, using the Ho Chi Minh Trail which gave them even easier acess between the countries. This began the spread of communism. The north ended up taking full control of south Vietnam, turning the whole Vietnam along with other countries full communism. This is why the United stated became involved in the war, they wanted to prevent it from spreading to them too. I mean do you really want communism? | The U,S involvement All the u.s wanted to do was take control of the spread of communism and try contain it. In my belief they did do a good job of containing it in that area. After all only five countries are only communist and they are slowly fading away, Giving away rights to the citizens." There are signs that china is gradually opening itself up to the rest of the world.Demand for western goods and interest in western culture have become part of china's daily life"-History book page 163 |