Who?: Mao Zedong (Mao Tse Tung)
Where?: China
When?: 1949-1976
What?: Leader of the Chinese Communists during the Civil War, he defeats Jiang and the Nationalists. Mao becomes the autocratic leader of Communist China from 1949 until his death in 1976.
How?:
Mao gained the support of China's large peasant population during the Civil War.
He attempted to modernize China during the Great Leap Forward
He attempted to renew the spirit of the Chinese Communst Revolution with the Cultural Revolution.
He wrote his ideas in his Little Red Book that his followers and Red Guard were required to read and carry as part of his "cult of personality".
Gave Chinese women equality
Redistributed land from the rich into state run communes.
Results:
1) China becomes a Communist dictatorship
2) The Nationalist are defeated and forced to flea to Taiwan
3) Chinese citizens sacrafice their natural rights for the good of the state.
4) Millions are killed, starved or jailed as China struggles to modernize itself after years of neglect brought on by imperialism, isolation and civil war.
Related Terms:
1) Commuinsm, 2) Totalitarian

Contriibuted By: Salaia DaCruz, Lauren Grecco & S. Asim Hussain,