The Cold War in ChinaBy: Bryan Ho-On

Racheed ManiAdam Wilson

Why was China affected? China's had the largest

population, and was powerful nation.

China became Communist People’s Republic of China in 1949 under Mao Zedong.

Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek were defeated and expelled.

USSR would therefore support Communist China and a common relation would grow, against the US.

The US felt Threatened

Point of time during the world: you were either Communist or Capitalist.

Effects of the Cold War on China

Short Term/Immediate Effects-

Pushed forward as a Communist nation through Soviet help.

Sino-Soviet Split 1956- Chinese divergence from the USSR politically, owing to Mao’s contrasting Communist ideology.

Increased Nationalistic movement under Mao Zedong:

- The Great Leap Forward- making maximum use of labour and collectivization of agriculture to transform China into a powerful world industry.

-Mao eager to show he could undertake significant economic implementations, after criticism by USSR. Futile attempt.

-Failed by 1962- 30 million dead

Hundred Flowers Movement

“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”

Short Term effects (Cont’d)

1966 Cultural Revolution, in an attempt to instill revolutionary fervor into the coming generation of Chinese people to prevent stagnation seen in the USSR, as well as to bring the end of the Four Olds.

Led to the purge of over 3 million, and the loss of over 500,000 Chinese lives.

Restoration of relations with the United States under Nixon since the Sino-Soviet Split

Open door Policy- 1978

Long Term Effects As PRC and USSR split, relations

between the US and China improved.

Nixon thought it would be beneficial to be in good relations with China, for the fight against communism and against the USSR would improve.

The increasing development of relations led to the US adding the PRC to the UN in 1971, where they remain today, along with being one of the Veto nations.

The Nationalists based in Taiwan claimed they were the only legal Chinese Authority and were expelled from the UN .

The relations with both the US and USSR have paved the way for modern-day China.

China adopted somewhat capitalist principles

There are more and more private entrepreneurs in China today.

China is one of the world’s rapidly developing nations.

Still maintains some aspects of Communism: It is still run by the CPC (Communist Party of China), a single-party state.

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