Rise+of+Communism+in+China

Timeline


 * -Communists struggled with nationalists in the 1920's


 * 1920's-1930's Mao Zedong emerges as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and gains support of peasants


 * -1937-1945 Communists and Nationalists join force to combat the Invadibg Japanese forces


 * --1949 The Communists finally take control of China and the country becomes a one party dictatorship


 * -1958


 * -1976 Mao Zedong dies

(Deng eased some of of the government's strict controls and welcomed foreing investment in China)
 * -late 1970's Deng Xiapong was China's new leader and strayed away from some of Mao's ideas
 * -1989 students in Bejing and elsewhere organized huge rallies to demand political freedom
 * *Bejing massacre- government of China shot and killed and wounded thousands of people at the protest rallies, this showed the government did not want their authority to be challenged


 * China continues to implement reforms and is moving more and more towards a more capitalistic economy