HIST 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mao Zedong, Communist Party Of China, Douglas Macarthur
Document Summary
Embracing defeat: took their failure as an opportunity for change. Ruins of hiroshima (aug, 1945: atomic bombs dropped, incendiary bombs, burned wooden bridges, japan reduced to nothing. Pop culture effects: the american occupation brought in consumer goods, japanese sponged their culture, social liberation which never existed before. United states who wanted to keep them as allies. Japan as usa bastion in the pacific: long term agreements on bases in japan, military staging areas, trade agreements. China under mao (documentary: the build-up to the chinese revolution of 1949 and the first decade of the people"s. In debt to landowners, landless labourers, elites ruled over, low wages. Self governing country but taken over by military dictatorship. Discrimination, poverty, dominated by other nations taking over. Mao zedong chairman of the chinese communist party (d. 1976) Mao wanted to improve the quality of living but was defeated. Mao wanted a communist state and offered land ownership to the peasants working in those lands.
