Communism starts problems sometimes
By: Erick Macias
Mao Zedong
Communism in China started with Mao zedong. He grew as a peasant, but was wealthy enough to go school. He studied Marxist ( communism ) writing at the Beijing university. Later became a member of the CCP - the Chinese communist party. Later he became the leader of the communist red army of 100,000 troops
The long march 1934
The long march was really important for Mao Zedong. It was where nationalist party leader chaing Kai shek & 700,000 troops forced Mao Zedongs red army of 100,000 troops to evacuate southern china. This was very important because on the way there they picked up lots of follower who wanted communism. As he gained more followers he had more power and was more of a big leader. That is a very important way communism spread. In 1949 Mao created and became chairman of people's republic of china.
The great leap foward 1958
Mao Zedong wanted to take china to the next level and be a very powerful country in the world. For this china needed advancements in industry as in more factories to produce more goods and services. At this time there were many Chinese peasant farmers. Mao Zedong made all the farmers work In industry and this caused a food shortage since there were no farmers to make food. Peopled starved and couldn't live in the right conditions, this was one of his first movements and it failed causing people to loose faith in Mao Zedong.
Cultural revolution 1966
The word revolution may scare you but all it means is change. For china their "revolution" changed their rights, their self expression through art and religion were banned. This who disobeyed this law were punished and at most killed! They didn't want any of their people to get influenced by the western democracies. He wanted only his people to celebrate communism ideas. This helped the spread of communism because the Chinese people in the next generation dint really know about democracies since all western democracies art was banned. All they knew was communism here and there.
Tianamen square.
On top in the picture you can see a very brave man who stood up to military tanks to try and stop what was going to happen. He is now known as tank man and is a big role in the tianamen square massacre. The Tiananmen Square Massacre was a response to a protest in the Peoples republic of china (PRC) in 1989. Also known as the June Fourth Incident, it occurred when several waves of protests across the course of a few months came to a head. The PRC government debated over whether to try to stop the situation through discussion, but eventually decided to suppress it militarily.this meant they would use military authority to make the people stop. Estimates of how many students were killed range from hundreds to thousands. This led to mass criticisms and sanctions around the world, and has remained a controversial topic into the 21st century.
Korean War
In the Korean war North Korea fell into communism and the south didn't want communism. The United States fought the north which was led by chiming chai's army. Chinese helped North Korea. The 14,000 un soldiers were surrounded by the 120,000 Chinese and Korean solders! As the Chinese captured Seoul mr. Truman made a very hard decision to dismiss general Douglas MacArthur. He played a great role since he lead the United States Army. This was also the first time jets were used in war The war lasted three years and ended in stalemate. Then they signed a armistice which was an agreement to stop fighting. They are divided into the 38th parallel which is now a dmz (demilitarized zone)
Vietnam war
In Vietnam the United States fought and unlike other wars their people did not support the idea of fighting in Vietnam.the reason of war was communism. The United States believe in the domino theory, which was if one country falls into communism it would spread and make the other countries fall to communism too. They didn't want communism to be in Vietnam so they fought the north, it was run by Ho Chi Minh and his troops , the Vietnam Minh. Ho Chi Minh was a huge role in the role since he was the leader of the communist people and stood up to gain what they wanted. One huge advantage he had was not all people in the south were against communism, some supported and they were called the Viet cong. they were fighting the south which was allied with the United States. The United States lost and in 1976 the north and south formed a socialist republic of Vietnam. Today Vietnam is a communist country.
How does this relate to the spread of communism
This all relates because Mao Zedong started communism and everybody wanted to be equal so they heard the idea without really knowing the true meaning. Some countries tried communism and the democratic countries didn't like it. They believed in the domino theory which is , if one country falls into communism it will spread to other countries. Since the communist countries were so influential they knew how to spread it in the people and that is were the spread all around.
Did the containment of communism work?
I don't think the containment of communism worked since the goal was for communism to stay and not preadolescent at all but no, it spread to other countries. That means the goal wasn't completed which means they failed the mission. Like in Vietnam the goal was to contain communism in north Vietnam. According to the Vietnam war article, "in 1976, northVietnam united both north and south Vietnam to form a socialist republic of Vietnam." "Vietnam remains a communist country today"