Aim: How did China become a communist country?

Do Now:
1. How did China lose Hong Kong island in 1842?

2. Who were the Boxers?

3. Describe Confucianism

4. What is communism?

5. Explain how Cold war politics will help China become communist.

Notebook file

Notes
I. Nationalists supported by? vs.  Communists supported by?
a. Civil war begins after WWII
b. Communists win and establish the People Republic of China in 1949.
II. Communism (Karl Marx)
A.    Goals
1.    For all to be equal under law and economically
2.    No Individual ownership
3.    no private business
4.    government owns everything
5.    Free medical and cheap housing.

II Changes Made
a.    Land Redistribution
1.    Peasants for communism
b.    Government controls information
1.    No Freedom of Speech , press- still today google censors information
2.    Against Confucianism
c.    Birth Control
d.    Modernization
1.    Schools built
       2. Military strength
e.    Totalitarian State