week 5

Hello everyone. I hope this week finds you and your family safe and healthy. I know it is getting increasingly more difficult to be home and stay focused.

Try to get fresh air every day (except today) and stick to a routine. Try not to sleep all day and stay up all night.

this week is a catch-up week. Please use the week the catch up on work. the quarter ends Friday April 17th

Extra Credit: 
if you are all caught up here is an extra credit assignment (this assignment is only for those who have handed in work during the past few weeks)

go to the website below.
1.  choose a topic
2. watch the 2 videos on the topic.
3. once done click discussion questions and answer the questions in a word document and email it to me.

You may pick 2 topics. Each topic has 2 short videos.

https://stosselintheclassroom.org/both-sides/

Week 4work

Hello!! I hope this finds you and your families safe and healthy. As always please reach out if you need anything or have questions. Miss you

So with spring break being canceled, we are working this week. Here are your assignments for the week. there are no notes to copy this week. I tried a new video method lets see if it worked lol. my videos on China becoming communist


 Watch all videos in the order they are listed.  all work will due Monday, April 13th. Remember you do not have to hand something in every day. the schedule is more for you to keep on pace.
I know Thursday and Friday are religious holidays for some of you so please take your time with work as always you can hand work in late.

Monday 4/6 watch my videos and read chapter Ch 33 section 2 questions and chapter 35 section 5. Answer the following questions. Please answer on a separate sheet of paper and email your work.  

Chapter 33 section 2 

1. Describe the situation in China that led to a civil war. 
2. Who is Mae Zedong? Who is Jiang Jieshi? 
3. Describe both the actions of the Nationalists and communists during WWII. 
4. Compare Mao Zedong and Jiang’s Jieshi. What were their goals for China?  
5. How did Mao’s use of money compare to Jiang’s? How will this help Mao and hurt Jiang? 
6. How was Mao able to gain the support of the peasants? Why is this important to his success? 
7. Why was China becoming communist in 1949 considered a huge defeat for America? 
8. Why do you think the West helping the Nationalists hurt their chances of success? 
9. Describe the Great leap forward. How was the Great leap forward a failure? 
10. Describe the conditions in China under the rule of Mao Zedong. 
11. Describe the actions taken by Mao during the Cultural Revolution. 
12. Why were intellectuals targeted during the Cultural revolution? 
13. Describe the impacts of the Cultural Revolution. 
14. Do you think Chinese peasants favored a communist takeover of china? Why or why not (use evidence from your readings) 

Chapter 35 section 5 

1. Describe the legacy of Mao. 
2. What was the ultimate result of Mao’s radical Communist policies? 
3. Who was Deng Xiaoping? 
4. Describe the Four Modernizations. (Were they successful? provide evidence) 
5. Were Deng’s Four Modernizations consistent with communism? Why or why not? 
6. How did economic reform lead to social and political demands for change? 
7. Describe what happened during the Tiananmen Square Massacre? 
8. How would you describe China’s record on Human Rights? 
9. Do you think the best way to prompt a political change in China is through engagement with the west, not isolation? 

https://youtu.be/RWocXNrH5qA

https://youtu.be/zC521aLrb2E

Tuesday 4/7 
complete the readings: (these will be under class materials in Microsoft Teams) The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution
place answers on a separate sheet of paper and email them to me

Wednesday 4/8 
Watch the following videos on Mao and Deng (create a 5 bulleted summary of each video they are short)

https://youtu.be/ujbapnrAKXA

https://youtu.be/A6XQKYnrlSA

https://youtu.be/Kk-GtTozRgc

https://youtu.be/7G0UXnXpABw

https://youtu.be/9c-hDzN7lX4

https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk

https://youtu.be/wNEW1Uh0lz0

Thursday 4/9
watch the videos below on the Korean War
create a 5-7 bulleted summary of each video

https://youtu.be/3lD-IuPURWM

https://youtu.be/-ZsqsvOGqzw

https://youtu.be/BBPwM1Takwg


Friday 4/10

Catch up day. use the day to catch up on any material you are missing

Readings in case you cannot see them on teams

The Great Leap Forward Period in China, 1958-1960  

Name___________________________Global II 

HW. Read and answer the questions 2 quiz grades 

Economic development under the People's Republic of China government started with about 150 development projects planned, financed and staffed by the Soviet Union. When political ideological differences between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev led to a split, the 15,000 Soviet engineers and staff on the development projects were withdrawn and the blueprints for the projects destroyed. China did not have the technological and financial resources to complete these projects on its own and Mao Zedong was made conscious of how vulnerable China was in depending upon outside aid, even from communist regimes.  

1. 1. Who helped China with their initial economic plans? 

2. 2. How would helping China benefit the Soviet Union? 

 It was then that the conviction developed with Mao that China would industrialize on its own, pulling itself up by its own bootstraps, so to speak. Mao was also aware that the first attempt to create a socialist economy was brought to a halt in the Soviet Union in 1921 when peasants reacted to confiscation of their grain harvest by declining to plant and produce as much grain. Mao was also aware that when Stalin began his five-year plans he collectivized agriculture in order to have control over what was planted and produced. Mao should have also been aware, although perhaps he was not, that the collectivization program in the Soviet Union was a great failure in terms of production and that a severe famine occurred. Nevertheless Mao called for the Chinese peasants to be organized into communes. This, in effect, took away the land that had been distributed to the peasants in the years immediately after 1949. The peasants had been urged to confiscate the lands of the landowners and distribute it to the peasants that farmed it. This land distribution program was extremely popular with the peasants and contributed to their support of Mao's Communist Party. But the peasants had the land for less that ten years before the State took it away from them.  

3. 3. Define a commune. 

4. 4. What is the purpose of a commune? 

5. 5. How did Mao’s plans for communes different from his original promise to the peasants? 

6. 6. Why do you think Mao took away the promise of land? How could this lead to problems for Mao? 

First, peasants were organized into cooperatives of 20 to 40 families. This was at the village level. Next, the cooperatives were replaced by county-wide collectives involving hundreds of thousands of people. In addition to calling for the creation of communes, Mao urged the peasants to build backyard blast furnaces to make iron and steel for tools. The peasants were supposed to melt down scrap metal to make useful items such as tools and utensils. In practice, the program worked backward with peasants melting down useful items to produce unusable masses of metal. This happened because the State exhorted the peasants to increase production from the backyard blast furnaces and when they ran out of scrap they started melting down anything they could find, including tools and utensils. Some of this destruction of useful objects to increase the production from the backyard blast furnaces might be attributed to enthusiasm but probably more of it was due to there being quotas of production from the furnaces that had to be met. Communist leaders at the local level faced with possible personal punishment for not meeting the quota or destruction of useful items of metal and of wood for fuel usually would choose to try to meet the quota. But the mixture of metals and the impurities in the fuel produced a metal that could not be formed into anything useful. The metal was too brittle.  

The more insidious consequence of the backyard blast furnaces and other nonagricultural projects of the Great Leap Forward was that they took labor away from food production and led to a shortfall in food. China was, as always in recent history, on the edge of subsistence and any decrease in food production means privation if not starvation.  

7. 7. Define blast furnaces 

8. 8. What was a consequence of the blast furnaces? 

To make matters worse the centralized control resulted in no one with the authority to change things being informed of the decline in food production. The commune leaders were under pressure to exceed past production and when production declined they did report it. They, in fact, reported what the higher authorities wanted to hear. Thus the policy errors that were leading to food shortfalls went on beyond the point when anyone could do anything about them. The central government made things even worse for the peasants by taking a share based upon the falsified production figures and thus leaving the peasants too little to survive on.  

In addition to the decline in food production due to the diversion of effort away from agriculture there was losses in food production because of the erroneous policies promoted by the State. One of these idiocies was close planting. If two plants are set too close to each other there is not enough nutrients in the soil to feed both and both die. The State promoted close planting of grain to increase productivity. The initial growth of a plant derives from the nutrient stored in the seed itself. With close planting the initial germination produces spectacular results, but when the growth of the plant has to depend upon nutrients drawn from the soil the close planting produces failures. During the Great Leap Forward there developed a competition for creating the most striking demonstrations of close planting. The record was probably the case which produced a famous photograph of children standing on top of a wheat field that could hold their weight.  

9. 9. What was the result of the communes on food production? 

Some tried to communicate to Mao the failures of the Great Leap Forward but were denounced as traitors. Marshal Peng Dehuai who commanded the Chinese troops in the Korean War was one of those denounced and branded as a counter-revolutionary by Mao.  

10. 10. What happened to anyone who spoke out against Mao? 

Famine ensued and was particularly severe in some areas. The people in these areas were forbidden to leave their area and so were doomed to starvation. Altogether about thirty million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by the shortfall in food production but this was a result of the bad policies and centralization of power in the central government. It was made worse by the refusal to admit the problem. During the time peasants were starving in the countryside the government was shipping to grain to the Soviet Union to repay loans. Some grain also rotted in warehouses in the cities where it was taken from the communes.  

11. 11. Identify the ways the Chinese government mismanaged grain. 

  

12. 12. How did the Chinese government mismanagement of grain affect the peasants? 

This famine was kept secret from the outside world until China began opening up to the outside world and demographers began analyzing the population statistics.  

13. 13. Why would Mao keep the famine a secret from the rest of the world? 

When Mao finally accepted the fact that the Great Leap Forward had failed he left the task of achieving an economic recovery to Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai. In 1966 Mao sought to return to absolute power again. The power struggle took the form of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). It was a social and economic disaster for China but it was brilliant guerilla warfare on the part of Mao. Mao may have been a fool in matters of economic policy but he was a genius in guerilla warfare.  

14. How did Mao attempt to regain power after his failed economic policies? 

Name__________________________________Date_____ 

Communist ChinaPd___ 

Cultural Revolution 

 

 

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a ten-year political campaign - a social experiment aimed at rekindling revolutionary fervor and purifying the party. Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing, directed popular anger against other members of the party leadership. While others were removed from office, Mao was named supreme commander of the nation and army. Ideological cleansing began with attacks by young Red Guards on so-called "intellectuals" to remove "bourgeois" influences.. Millions were forced into manual labor, and tens of thousands were executed. The result was massive civil unrest, and the army was sent in to control student disorder. Four leading radical figures played a dominant political role during the later years of the Cultural Revolution. Hardliners Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's fourth wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen appeared likely to seize power Gang Of four). At the 1977 11th Party Congress, the Cultural Revolution was declared officially to have ended with the arrest of the Gang of Four. Several weeks after Mao's death in September 1976, they were instead arrested and blamed for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Sentences for their "anti-party" deeds ranged from death (later commuted to life in prison) to 20 years in prison.  

Red Guards or hong wei bing militants were people in their teens and 20s who supported the shake-ups within the Communist Party in the Cultural Revolution. Clutching the Little Red Book of quotations from Chairman Mao, they terrorized "closet capitalists". As Mao urged workers to turn on their managers, he also encouraged students to turn against their teachers. Anyone who held a position of authority was at risk - from CCP figures to influential university professors accused of putting "technical expertise" ahead of "correct political thinking". Entire schools were closed by units of Red Guard students, and the movement soon spread from the classroom out onto the streets. Chinese people who were between the ages of 15 and 25 during the period of the Cultural Revolution are now referred to as the "lost generation", having missed out on a proper education.  

1. Summarize the Cultural revolution 

 2. Why would Mao call for the Cultural Revolution? 

 3. How are the red Guards helpful to Mao’s regime? How the Red Guards harmful to Mao’s regime?

4. What does the punishment of the Gang of Four demonstrate?