The Communism Connection
Charly Hemmings
Communism
Communism is a government in which everyone is equal and there is no class system. The countries that we will focus on are China, North and South Korea, and Vietnam.
Mao Zedong's road to communism in China
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a poor farmer who had just enough money to go to school. He liked the idea of everyone being equal so he took over and made China a communist The country. Here's how.
The long march
The Long March was when Mao Zedong and his army marched 6k miles in order to escape from the nationalist. He lost several of his men but gained support along the way helping it spread.
Great Leap Forward
The leader of communist China wanted to advance their economy and make it become more industrialized. He made farmers work In factories to produce more material. But this failed because of the lack of food for the growing population. People questioned his leadership as others were slowly dying of starvation.
Cultural Revolution
Part of Mao's plan was to leave people with no identity. You were not aloud to have a religion, or self expression. If you rebeled you would be killed. Everyone had to follow what Mao wanted them to follow.
Tiananmen Square
This was when tons of college students got fed up with communism and protested. Many people died after tanks rolled through the streets with no remorse or care in the world. One strong man stood in front of the tanks to try to stop them, which worked but bystanders pushed him away to saftey.
The Vietnam war
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of communist Vietnam.
The Vietnam war
The Vietnam war was when part of Vietnam wanted to be communist and the other part wanted to be democratic.
The Korean War
The Korean War began when communist North Korea crossed the 38th parallel to invade the southern democratic Koreans. the US got involved because we believed the domino affect would happen. This means we thought every country would soon be communist. We did not want that.
So, did containment of communism work?
Containment of communism worked. The countries I stated have economic problems like the Great Leap Forward in China and basic economic problems in North Korea. With all the wars that happened money is lost and so are people. So why would they try to take over with the terrible problems now, and make another bad government?