THE RISE OF MAO AND THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION

MAO ZE DONG

• Born in 1893
• He decided to organise a revolution of rural peasants
• He tried to create or improve to a "Modern China" but failed
• Many of his policies such as cultural revolution brought suffering to the Chinese
• He helped organise a peasant movement in southern China during the early 1920s

KUOMINTANG(KMT)

• A nationalism group that fought against the Mao and the CPC
• Leader of the KMT is called Chiang Kai Shek
• KMT lost the war and decided to retreat to Taiwan

THE END OF QING DYNASTY

• End in 1911
• Because of the lost of Opium War
• And China had to lend Hong Kong to UK for 99 years
• Many people started to rebell
• Tai Ping Rebellion , Boxer Rebellion

WHEN MAO HASN'T GOTTEN ANY POWER YET......

• HIs father was a wealthy farmer
• He has a nationalist and communism mind since he was little
• In 1921, he became a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC)

THE RISE OF MAO

• In 1927, during the Chinese civil war, fought against the Kuomintang(KMT)
• Mao was one of the founder of the Red Army
• He became the leader of CPC during the Long March
• In 1937, CPC allied with KMT during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45)
• In 1949, Mao's forces defeated the Nationalists who withdrew to Taiwan.

THE RISE OF MAO (2)

• In 1946, CPC and KMThad a war again
• Mao won the war and KMT had to retreat to TaiWan
• On October1 1949, Mao became the founder of the People's Republic of China
• Mao became the leader of China

THE FAILURE OF MAO

• He launched the Great Leap Forward,
• a policies that change China from an agrarian economy to an industrial
• Many people starved, at least 45 million people died

THE FAILURE OF MAO (2)

• Mao started the Cultural Revolution
• Try to be a capitalism country
• China's youth forming the Red Guard
• It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life.
• it led to a mass purge of senior officials,and people who refuse to change