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Which is Which:
• What are traits/characteristics of a Hero?
How about a Villain?
• Are they they same? Which are different?
So Then What is the Difference?• Some might say motivation.
• Some might say intention.
Mao Zedong
• Gets his start as the most misunderstood type of all…• He was a teacher
– In 1919 he supported Chinese rule for China after WW1.
– Argument had 2 sides, communists and nationalists
Communism V Nationalism
• Define each:
• Nationalists want a nation based on self rule (G. Princip) in the interests of its people.
• Communists want communal ownership of institutions, and worker rule. (Russia)
The Two Sides in China• Nationalists: Led by Jiang
Jieshi
Wanted 3 things for China. No foreign control Democracy economic stability
Had the support of middle class and educated types
Feared Russian type-control
Used Russian type tactics
• Communists: Led by Mao Zedong
• Escaped the massacre in Shanghai
• Spoke for the peasants of China.
Heroic Words?• The force of the peasantry is like that of the
raging winds and driving rain. It is rapidly increasing in violence. No force can stand in its way. The peasantry will tear apart all nets which bind it and hasten along the road to liberation. They will bury beneath them all forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses and evil gentry. - MZ
So Far, Hero or Bad Guy?
• Think back to our traits talk? Which is he showing more of?
Mao’s Rise• He won the support of the peasants and the Civil War
– Food– Literacy
Jiang had fled, time to run this ship.
Elbow Room
• Mao stretches out a little.
• Mongolia first, then Tibet, then parts of India.
• He took them using force
What To Do W/ Land? • Mao redistributes land to the farmers.
10% controlled 70% land. Mao gives it back. Landlords that resisted were killed. (only a million or so)
Collective Farms come back: some nudging required.
5 Year Plan• Mao set goals for business and industry.
• Four years later- Coal, Cement, and electricity 2X. Steel 4X
Great Leap Forward
• Collectives turned into Communes.
• Communes = Larger farms that were 100% communal. Living, working, raising kids everyone did everything. No ownership.
• Nature takes its toll: bad weather = bad crops
= Starvation of 20 million in 3 years.
Mao Changes Gears• Mao steps back for a sec after the Great
Leap. In his absence, China goes a little soft.
• Red Guards
– Mao inspires High School/College kids to renew Revolution.
Cultural Revolution
•The Red Guards began a wave of terror called the Cultural Revolution –Artists and Intellectuals seen as wasteful and dangerous
–They attacked and shut down schools
–1000s executed or jailed. –Chaos ensues
On a blank piece of Comp PaperCreate a Wanted Poster for Mao
Wanted Poster: if you think he was a bad guy.
5 Facts or Events to support your position.
Or• You can make a positive campaign poster
Positive images and 5 facts to support Mao as good for China
