1. Ch. 30, sec. 3

2.  After WWII, Chinese Civil War
 Communist vs. Nationalists
 Communists won, led by
Mao Zedong
 Reasons for Communist victory
 Popularity with peasants-
land redistribution
 Ended oppression from
landlords
 Decreased taxes on the poor
 Chinese Communists conquer
Tibet in 1959

3.  Chinese govt. discouraged
Buddhism and
Confucianism
 Govt took property from
landlords and business
owners
 Some Chinese middle class
citizens were opposed to
the communist revolution
 Beaten, sent to labor camps,
killed
 Built dams and factories
 Collectivization- pooling
peasant land/labor to
increase productivity

4.  1958-1960
 Mao-Zedong’s program to increase
output and productivity
 Urged people to increase farming
efforts
 Set up communes
 “Great Leap” failed
 No individual incentive
 Less production
 Famine
 55 million starved to death 

5.  1966- plan to purge China of
“bourgeois” tendencies
 Encouraged young
generations to experience
revolution
 Red Guards
 Groups of teens
 Attacked those considered
“bourgeois”
 “little red book”- Quotations
from Chairman Mao Zedong

6.  China and Soviets were
loose allies
 Mistrust, border disputes
 1960- Soviets withdraw all
aid to China
 U.S. saw the opportunity to
use china to isolate the
Soviet Union
 1971-Allowed China to
replace Taiwan in the United
Nations
 1979- U.S. set up formal
diplomatic relations with
China

7.  Open your book to p. 802-803
 Look at the series of maps at the bottom of the
page

8.  Read War Comes to Korea and Two Koreas on
p. 803-805 and answer the following questions
in your notes:
 What types of governments did North and South
Korea have?
 What countries supported either side?
 Who was Kim Il Sung?
 Who was Syngman Rhee?
 Why did China get involved in the Korean War?
 Compare/Contrast the economies of North and
South Korea.