bellwork read documents a-c on page 262 in ccw packet. then, answer questions 1-4 on your bellwork...
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BELLWORK• Read documents A-C on page
262 in CCW packet. Then, answer questions 1-4 on your bellwork paper.
5. Explain the causes/effects of the Long March.6. How did the war with Japan effect the CCP and GMD?7. THINKER: Why was the CCP successful in the first stage of the Chinese Civil War?
Causes/Effects of the Long March
CCP Fighting StrategyMao on Guerilla Warfare Mao’s Plan for Revolutionary
Warfare (pgs. 266-267)• Setting up base areas• Organization phase• Defending the bases• Guerrilla phase• Protracted war• Seizing power
• “The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy halts, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”
Why was the CCP able to survive the first stage of the Civil War?
CCP Strengths
• Long March• Propaganda• Increased support for
fighting Japanese & aligning with GMD
• Dedicated soldiers• Fighting tactics
GMD Weaknesses
• Poor treatment of peasants• Lost support for not fighting
Japanese• Failure to implement Sun’s 3
principles of democracy• Assumed the US would aide
in Japanese loss
How did the war with Japan effect the CCP and GMD?
Impact on the CCP• Used the war with Japan to carry out policy of
revolutionary warfare• “our fixed policy should be 70% expansion, 20%
dealing with the GMD, and 10% resisting the Japanese.”
• Control of 678 out of 914 towns• Land Reform• Improved education• Reducing taxes• Egalitarian policies• Women’s rights• Successes cause people to see them as the true
nationalists – surge in popularity
Problems with the GMD• Large support areas fell under Japanese control• Loss of tax revenue• Print more money = inflation• Corruption• Ill-treated troops• Japanese control of ports = low supplies• Factions formed• Jiang’s response = repression!• Lacked control over provinces• Exhausted from fighting – high death tolls
against Japanese• Lost public support – puppet of W. Imper.
Mao Zedong
Leader of the CCP, Red Army, and Chairman of Communist China
1949-1976
The Life of Mao Zedong: Childhood
The Life of Mao Zedong: Political Involvement & early days of the CCP
“Power comes from the barrel of a gun”
The Life of Mao Zedong: Revolutionary
"Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and noble. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."— Mao, February 1927
The Life of Mao Zedong: CCP Leadership
Mao in 1927: his “political coming-of-age”
The Life of Mao Zedong
Mao liked to rule from bed;
often summoning his
colleagues from their own
beds in the middle of the
night
Mao as Leader of China
Mao as Leader
of China
Mao as Leader of China• Five Year Plan• Great Leap
Forward• Cultural
Revolution• Hundred
Flowers Campaign
"People who try to commit suicide — don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people”
Accounts of Struggle Sessions• “... the Cultural Revolution began and I was transferred
to another labor camp.... Two years after I had been in this new camp, I received a parcel from my family. Immediately, an inmate accused me of giving something out of it to another prisoner. I was dragged to the office. Without any investigation, the officer assembled the entire camp to start a struggle session against me. In the session the officer suddenly asked me whether I had committed my alleged original crime leading to my 8-year sentence. I was stunned. It then dawned on me that this session was in fact prearranged. The parcel was only a pretense. Their real motive was once again to force me to admit all my alleged crimes. "I did not commit any crimes," I asserted firmly. Immediately two people jumped on me and cut off half of my hair. The officer screamed again: "Are you guilty?" I replied firmly again, "No." Two people then used a rope to tie my hands back tightly. It was connected to a loop around my shoulder and underneath my armpits. It was knotted in such a way that a slight movement of my hands would cause intense pain. This struggle session lasted for two hours. Afterwards, they untied me and handcuffed me instead. The handcuffs became a part of me for the next one hundred days and nights....”
• You Xiaoli was standing, precariously balanced, on a stool. Her body was bent over from the waist into a right angle, and her arms, elbows stiff and straight, were behind her back, one hand grasping the other at the wrist. It was the position known as "doing the airplane." Around her neck was a heavy chain, and attached to the chain was a blackboard, a real blackboard, one that had been removed from a classroom at the university where You Xiaoli, for more than ten years, had served as a full professor. On both sides of the blackboard were chalked her name and the myriad crimes she was alleged to have committed.... The scene was taking place at the university, too, in a sports field at one of China's most prestigious institutions of higher learning. In the audience were You Xiaoli's students and colleagues and former friends. Workers from local factories and peasants from nearby communes had been bused in for the spectacle. From the audience came repeated, rhythmic chants.... "Down with You Xiaoli! Down with You Xiaoli!“
• "I had many feelings at that struggle session," recalls You Xiaoli. "I thought there were some bad people in the audience. But I also thought there were many ignorant people, people who did not understand what was happening, so I pitied that kind of person. They brought workers and peasants into the meetings, and they could not understand what was happening. But I was also angry."
• Lin Biao; Mao’s chosen successor
Death of Mao
Death of Mao
Chinese Nationalism…..
Patriotic or crazy?