Revolution

**Essential Questions:**
==**1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? == The people that live in the country.

 2. What makes people comply or reject?
It depends on whether it benefits them or if its for a greater good.

 3. What makes a revolution successful?
Organization and effort makes a revolution successful.

 4. Who are the winners in a political revolution
In a political revolution, the winners are those who are in power or have large support system.

 5. What causes change in a society?
Change is caused by time and experience.


 * Revolution: **


 * ** Define it in your own words: **

is a an effort by a person/ group to make a change against a larger system.


 * ** Look up a definition of the term: **

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.


 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions **

- War

- Violence - Protests



3.Justice - Gives you the security of being treated properly.
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Some people who are under-advantaged need an a little boost to be equal with other around them.

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Copy and paste questions on History of China into your wiki:

1. From the late 1800s to the 20th century, what were some of the "underlying" cause of unrest in China (Incubation period) There was a lot of corruption within the government. -tremendous amounts of famine -increase in population

2. What changes occurred in China after the revolution of 1911?

==== Due to increased western influence and increased trade, many cities did become wealthy ====

-Sun Yet Sun -ended 200 years of the chinese dynasty -tried to westernize China. -Wealthy benefited not poor

3. Explain the role of the Nationalists and Communists in the Chinese Government They wanted to rid China of foreign influence. It was similar to the purification of Cambodia. - 1927 they were one group -rid China of foreign influence -Nationalists -Chung Hia -Communists- Mao Ze Dung Nationalist leader hated communists, because they posed the biggest threat.

4. Highlight the role of Mao in China Led people on a march, many who made the long march became ranked at positions such as lieutenants - He controlled northern China - He caused major changes in: ideas, customs, cultures and habits - Red guards had to speak on what good communism is. He wanted to identify the intellectuals so he could kill them. - He killed millions of Chines people because his plan didn't work - He died in 1976


 * Based on the video and your notes, what impact did Mao have on China ** ?

Mao Zedong and the CCP had a positive affect on China because they mobilized the people and rid China of the corrupt and brutal dictator Jiang Jie-shi and the Nationalists. He modernized China and largely made it what it is today. He's a good leader in that respect, however it is obvious to many political theorists that the end does not justify the means. Many were killed in the attempt to get China moving. It was largely communist, though has been shifting as of lately. Regardless of his communist views, Maoism is still a force today, one that cannot be shunned simply because it is communist.

=__China Under Mao Video Notes __=

- the airplane was not an achievement of China
- China was ruled by dynasties - Dynasties were ruled by empeorors - Isolationism is a policy of a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. - Europeans forced Chinese governments to trade - Mao Zedong forced western influences out of China - Chiang Kai-Shek supported by the U.S. - 1949 Civil War ended and communists gained control of China - Nationalists fled to Taiwan and formed Chinese republics - Intellectuals were persecuted - 3-6 million debts were caused by Mao's regime - Food production fell under Mao's rule - Intellectuals forced to country side to do hard labor - 50-75 million people died under Mao - He created the Red Guard


 * Summary:** Many countries had a sphere of influence in China. Mao and Shek worked to rid the country of these influences. Nationalists opposed Communists and vice versa. A civil war broke out in China between the two groups but the Communists came out victorious. Communists had complete control over China. Mao had intellectuals killed and rewired the peoples' habits, customs, culture, and ideas. Some intellectuals were allowed to live and were forced to do hard labor, in the rural side of China. Mao then died of natural causes. Under his regime, 50-75 million people died.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.


 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan// **

A revolution requires more than just mediocre effort; it gets violent and one would have to be willing to put their life on the line for it. Mao describes revolution as an act of violence rather than a positive event.

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">— From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **

The revolutionary war requires the participation of the people; without them the war doesn't mean much. Revolution is only possible with the support of thousands of people

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">— From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **

War is based on self-determined ideologies and they keep on appearing due to the inequalities between people. Mao didn't believe in haves and have nots.

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">— From //Problems of War and Strategy// **

// For you to gain political power, you have to be able to pose a threat to those who oppose you. //

Mao Zedong defines revolution as an act of war by the people in an attempt to overthrow its government; it can only be achieved through severe violence. - must be controlled by force
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">I agree with his quotes to a degree but I feel as though revolution is more than just war. It is change to better a system that is flawed. In some cases, it can lead to violence but not always. Instead, Mao believed that, "A revolution [was] an insurrection." I agree with his idea that revolution isn't a "dinner party or like painting a picture."
 * __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes) **__

= [|"The Tank Man"] =



=__There are only pictures in this video__=

What do you see in the video? - a lot of technology - the dam - advertisements - modern buildings - waterfalls

What is missing? - People - no rural areas - no voice of the people