 What country
was freed when
Japan lost
WWII?
 What is China’s
official name?
 Today I will be able to analyze China’s
road toward communism in the 1950s
by constructing a double bubble
thinking map.
 Chiang Kai-shek
 Opposed
communism for
20 years
 Led Chinese
against Japan in
WWII
 Very corrupt
Mao Zedong
Communist
leader
Helped peasants
to learn to read
and produce
more food
 US refused to send
soldiers
 Instead sent $2 billion
 Mao’s Red Army won
 Containment had
failed 
 Many Americans
claimed communists in
US government were at
fault
 Paranoia of communism is boiling
Pgs. 326-327
 Using a double bubble thinking map,
compare and contrast the leaders in
China’s civil war.