What led to China's Communist Revolution

What led to China's Communist Revolution

How did China become a communist country? What does it have to do with WWII? What is the situation today?

From 1911 to 1945, China experienced the following:

• A struggle against warlords VS. peasants

  
  

• An invasion by the Japanese.

• A civil war

Multiple Choice

China had many challenges just before WWI, all of the following EXCEPT

• War with Japan

• corruption within its gov't

• War with the USA

• a civil war

War with Japan was called Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

The war between China & Japan was started by Japan and ended in 1945 after the USA drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan

Multiple Choice

Context: I can guess that Sino is a term used for China and represents

• a Latin word for silk

• a roman word for sickle

Chinese military and political leader Chiang Kai-shek

• Led the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang, or KMT)

• He led China in trying to stop a revolution

Multiple Select

The leader of China that represented the anit-Communists was

• Mao Zedong

• President Xi Jinping

• Chaing Kai-Shek

Yellow River Dams were destroyed!

Chiang Kaishek destroyed these dams in June 1938 in an effort to slow down the Japanese advance on Wuhan. No warning was given. Thousands of acres and 4000 villages were flooded. An estimate of 800,000 of Chinese civilians died. It did hold up the Japanese advance for three months, but left many Chinese very bitter against the government.

Multiple Choice

The impact of Yellow River Dams being destroyed were all of the following EXCEPT!

• There was no warning and 4000 villages were lost

• It slowed the Japanese down but did not defeat them

• China won the war Sino-Japanese War

• It devastated millions of Chinese & turned them against the Chaing Kai-Shek gov't

Who were the Chinese Warlords?

Thees landlords had control over peasants and land. They were known to be extremely harsh and frequently using weapons to attack their own people, Mao Zedong called them devils.

Who were the Chinese peasants?

• in China before the Communist Revolution

• 80% of people who were extremely impoverished and mostly illiterate

Multiple Choice

The Chinese economy had a strong middle class before WWII.

• True

• False

Who was Mao Zedong?

(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists.

Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

Multiple Choice

The leader of the revolution for Communist China was

• Mao Zedong

• Chaing Kai-Shek

• President Xi Jinping

What about Taiwan?

• It is an Island where the Nationalists & Chiang Kaishek fled after their defeat in the Communist Revolution 1949

• Today China & Taiwan have a mutual agreement to maintain a middle ground that support both sides.

• The US is by far Taiwan's most important friend and ally.

• Today, it has its own constitution, democratically-elected leaders, and about 300,000 active troops in its armed forces.

Who is President Xi Jinping?

The most influential Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, he came to power in 2012, China is considered the second largest economy in the world today

Multiple Choice

Today, Taiwan would like to defeat China and reunite the country.

• True

• False