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Postwar Japan

Rebuilding a war torn nationDemocracy and demilitarization

New Constitution 1947

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Resumption ofthe Chinese Civil

 War

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Chiang Kai-shek

MadameChiang(Soong Mei-ling)

GeneralJoseph

Stillwell

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Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin Roosevelt, and

Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference 

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What were theproblems of the

NationalistGovernment?

Corruption, demoralizationand hyperinflation

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“[Nationalists in China failed

because] the almost

inexhaustible patience of theChinese people in their misery

[had] ended. They did not

bother to overthrow this

government. There was really

nothing to overthrow. Theysimply ignored it through the

country.” –  Secretary of State

Dean Acheson

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Proclamation of thePeople’s Republic of

China (PRC) (October 1,1949)

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Mao Era (1949-1976)China under communism

Legacy of Mao

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 “For Mao is arguably the greatest mass murderer of theTwentieth Century, perhaps in history. He easily

eclipses his fellow left-wing monsters Pol Pot, Hitler,

and even Stalin in the sheer number of corpses he left inhis wake.

Unlike the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler, the Soviet Union ofJoseph Stalin, and the Democratic Kampuchea of Pol

Pot, the People’s Republic of China of Mao Zedongsurvives to the present day, its ruling party intact, itssystem of government largely unchanged. The myths

and lies that continue to prop up Mao’s image alsobolster the claims of the People’s Republic of China itself

to political legitimacy. The current Communistleadership proudly declares itself to be Mao’s heirs,

maintains his Leninist dictatorship, continues hismilitary build-up, and cherishes his grand ambitions.

The ghost of Monster Mao haunts us still.” – Steven W.Mosher 

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Great LeapForward (1958-

1960)Rapid industrialization

Collectivization of agricultureState commune

30 million perished in famine

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Great ProletarianCultural

Revolution(1966-1976)

Red Guardscleansed“impure”elements of

Chinese society

Reign of Politicaland Social Terror

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Red Guards

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Mao and Che Guevara

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Richard Nixon Visits China

(February 1972)

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Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon

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Henry Kissinger (Sec. of State), Zhou Enlai, and MaoZedong

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Story of Koreain 20th century

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Kim Il-Sung (North Korea) and Syngman Rhee

(South Korea)

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Korean

 War

North invades South June 25,1950

UN “police action”  Defend and preserve South

Korea

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Clash between

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Clash betweenMacArthur and

Truman

Two years ofstalemate fighting

along 38th parallel

War ends on July

27, 1953

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  ftermath

Countries still divided at the 38th parallel

U.S. - 54,000 killed and over

100,000 wounded3 million Korean deadSouth Korea – solid U.S.

ally/economic powerNorth Korea – totalitarian

state/global threat

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