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Kuomintang


 * __Describe the history of communist rule in China and how the country developed to its current global role.__**

Before WWII ended there was a power struggle between the nationalist and the communist. The Nationalist faction was lead by former ruler Chiang Kai-Shek and the communist faction was lead by Mao Zedong. Mao and his peasant army took control of Beijing, establishing Communism as the new government; Chiang retreated to the island of Taiwan. After the communist party was settled into China, they created a new consitution and silenced critics against their views. China was then turned into a totalitarian state to fix problems in the country and achieve their goals, including a redistribution of land and a call for industrialization of the country. Mao became a hero and an object of "worship," and he worked to make China self-sufficient and better for the people by building schools and expanding health care. Mao's death marking the start of the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, policies were changed; the economy obtained a longer leash from the government, allowing some private businesses and foreign investment into the system. The public, however, took the looser policies as a sign of democracy and began rallying for reform and rights. The Chinese government refused to change politically and reacted in a stern manner, causing several thousand causalities in the June 1989 Beijing Massacre.

__**//Works Cited://**__ H.G.S. Textbook - Pages 351 - 355