History

 -began with the "New Culture Movement" in 1911 which urged modernism and change -Communists struggled with nationlists in the 1920's   -1920's-1930's Mao Zedong emerges as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and gains support of peasents -1937-1945 Communists and Nationalists join force to combat the Invadibg Japanese forces --1949 The Communiosts finnally take control of China and the country becomes a one party dictatorship -1958 -1976 Mao Zedong dies -late 1970's Deng Xiapong was China's new leader and strayed away from some of Mao's ideas (Deng eased some of of the government's strict controls and welcomed foreing investment in China) -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 challanged