Did communism work?
things you will be learning about is Mao Zedong
Cultural revolution
Mao brought a change in to china through communism.he also used his powerful government to change China's culture. cultural revolution was to renew the spirt of Chinese communist revolution.he didn't want people to focus on Chinese cultural in the past.he didn't want anybody focusing on anything that china had from democratic. He just wanted people to celebrate communist government. Religion and self expression through art was banned. and also outlaws and those who mocked the government were punished or killed.mao Zedongs wife controlled Chinese culture and society.and art works to be about Mao Zedong and about communist values.people were often censored while propaganda & brainwashing were used on people.Mao also recruited high school students to form red guards who were given power to enforce the policies of the cultural revolution.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong is a man that wanted everything that his people had from China from a long time ago throw it out.so nobody had any memorize from there last Chinese leader of democratic.he was raised as a poor child he use to work in the field. So once he became the new leader he was gonna make it communist. He wanted everyone to be equal no to poor and not to rich everyone had to have the same thing.
Long march
A nationalists party leader Chian Kai shek & 700,000 of his troops forced Mao Zedongs red army of 100,000 troops out of southern china.Mao and his troops marched 6,000 miles west and southern china to escape.during the March Mao Zedong lost a lot of his men.during his journey to leave china he earned supports from peasant farmers that he meet across china.this peasant farmers would help him build communism after world war 2.
The great leap forward
Mao Zedong wanted china to be a powerful country.so he thought to do this china was gonna need to have a lot of industrialized that mean they need more factories and machines.in that time China's people would live in rural places and were peasant farmers. Mao also thought that he could get the peasant farmers to make steel and work in factories.but he made this big mistake you know why? He made this big mistake because there was a shortage of framers.and if there were is barley any farmer they aren't going to be able to feed all of China's huge population of people.millions of people ended up dieing of starvation.people stared questioning maos leading.
Tank man
Tank man is a man who was fighting against communism. When the tanks were coming he got in front of it, and didn't let it pass. He got on top of one of the tanks and started banging on it with buckets.he didn't agree that communism was good he thought a was a bad thing.
Korean War
Did containment of communism work ?
Honestly I think it didn't work. I think it doesn't work because it still speared around the world.