China Sections 5 and 6 up to and including the Great Leap Forward

Japan

Fought against the Nationalists and Communists

Led by Chang kai Shek

NAtionalist Party

Led by Mao ZeDong

Communist Party

Located in Northern China

Communist Party

Located in South China

Nationalist Party

Appealed to the Poor

Communist Party

Appealed to the wealthy/ urban

Nationalist Party

PLA army helped them win the civil war in 1949

Communist Party

Created the New Life Movement in Taiwan

NAtionalist Party

Totalitarian

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

Karl Marx

founder of modern communism

Shanghai Massacre

ordered by Chiang Kai-Shek. thousands of communists killed. April 1927. Nationalist-Communist alliance destroyed.

CCP

Chinese Communist Party

Communism

Extreme version of socialism with no social classes

Long March (1934-1935)

The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek. The four thousand survivors of the march formed the nucleus of a revived Communist movement that defeated the Guomindang after World War II.

USSR

China modeled their economy after

Collective Farms (Collectivization)

State run farms whose main goal was to feed the workers in the cities who contributed to the industrialization of the nation.

Great Leap Forward

Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years.