China
Under Communist
Leaders
Unit 11, Lesson 8
Learning Goals
Essential Question
Objectives
Identify results of the Great Leap Forward
What divisions and tensions led to the Cold War?
Infer why young people in China supported the Cultural Revolution
Important People, Places, Things, and Events
Identify how specific leaders influenced China's international relations and economics
What events and movements shaped life in China during the Cold War?
Vocabulary
Cult of personality: an exaggerated devotion to someone who is depicted as heroic, admirable, and worthy of unquestioning loyalty
Martial law: a period where the military takes control over the government to restore order
Paramilitary: an armed group organized like a military
Mao's Plans
Mao Zedong implements communist policies to improve China's economy
Mao's Cultural Revolution
1966-1976: Mao carries out a movement called the Cultural Revolution, where he tries to bring back the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese Civil War
Mao's Cultural Revolution
Mao encourages young people to target people believed to be enemies of the Communist Party
Students formed paramilitary groups called Red Guards and carried out the Cultural Revolution
~10 million people died and thousands more are imprisoned, tortured, publically humiliated, or removed from their homes
Mao's Cult of Personality
Mao creates a cult of personality where he is portrayed as a superhuman leader bringing China to prosperity
A 1964 book of Mao's quotations called the Little Red Book helps to foster the cult of personality
China During the Cold War
Early in the Cold War, China had tense relationships with the Western Bloc
Mao aligns with the Soviet Union because of its communist ideology and uses it as a model to industrialize
China's relationship with the USSR deteriorates when the Soviet Union begins de-Stalinization
1979: The US recognizes the PRC as China's government
Deng Xiaoping
1977-1997: Deng Xiaoping leads China and allows the country to take on some capitalist characteristics
Urban areas benefit from these changes more than rural areas
Tiananmen Square
Although Deng made some changes, many oppressive policies were still in place
1989: a group of students in Beijing protest to gain more democratic reforms, tens of thousands of others join
The CCP declares martial law to stop the protest, but protesters refuse to leave
Armed troops and tanks attack the crowd in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, with hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries
Learning Goals
Essential Question
Objectives
Identify results of the Great Leap Forward
What divisions and tensions led to the Cold War?
Infer why young people in China supported the Cultural Revolution
Important People, Places, Things, and Events
Identify how specific leaders influenced China's international relations and economics
What events and movements shaped life in China during the Cold War?
China Under Communist Leaders
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China
Under Communist
Leaders
Unit 11, Lesson 8
Learning Goals
Essential Question
Objectives
Identify results of the Great Leap Forward
What divisions and tensions led to the Cold War?
Infer why young people in China supported the Cultural Revolution
Important People, Places, Things, and Events
Identify how specific leaders influenced China's international relations and economics
What events and movements shaped life in China during the Cold War?
Vocabulary
Cult of personality: an exaggerated devotion to someone who is depicted as heroic, admirable, and worthy of unquestioning loyalty
Martial law: a period where the military takes control over the government to restore order
Paramilitary: an armed group organized like a military
Mao's Plans
Mao Zedong implements communist policies to improve China's economy
Mao's Cultural Revolution
1966-1976: Mao carries out a movement called the Cultural Revolution, where he tries to bring back the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese Civil War
Mao's Cultural Revolution
Mao encourages young people to target people believed to be enemies of the Communist Party
Students formed paramilitary groups called Red Guards and carried out the Cultural Revolution
~10 million people died and thousands more are imprisoned, tortured, publically humiliated, or removed from their homes
Mao's Cult of Personality
Mao creates a cult of personality where he is portrayed as a superhuman leader bringing China to prosperity
A 1964 book of Mao's quotations called the Little Red Book helps to foster the cult of personality
China During the Cold War
Early in the Cold War, China had tense relationships with the Western Bloc
Mao aligns with the Soviet Union because of its communist ideology and uses it as a model to industrialize
China's relationship with the USSR deteriorates when the Soviet Union begins de-Stalinization
1979: The US recognizes the PRC as China's government
Deng Xiaoping
1977-1997: Deng Xiaoping leads China and allows the country to take on some capitalist characteristics
Urban areas benefit from these changes more than rural areas
Tiananmen Square
Although Deng made some changes, many oppressive policies were still in place
1989: a group of students in Beijing protest to gain more democratic reforms, tens of thousands of others join
The CCP declares martial law to stop the protest, but protesters refuse to leave
Armed troops and tanks attack the crowd in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, with hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries
Learning Goals
Essential Question
Objectives
Identify results of the Great Leap Forward
What divisions and tensions led to the Cold War?
Infer why young people in China supported the Cultural Revolution
Important People, Places, Things, and Events
Identify how specific leaders influenced China's international relations and economics
What events and movements shaped life in China during the Cold War?