*Communist leader of China

*Came up with the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

*organized the Red guards

Goal: Increase farm and factory output

Methods: Communes and production quota

Results: Program fails and leads to low production and famine

Goal: Renew Communist loyalty and increase followers of Mao

Methods: Red Guards attack anyone who went againts Mao

Results: Economy slows, China becomes isolated, people fear arrest, civil War threatened

*Disrupted China's economy and educational systems

*Becomes leader of China after Mao Zedong dies in 1976

*Creates the Four modernizations plan to reform China's economy

*Moved China from a command to a mixed economy

*Leader of China during the Tiananmen Square Massacre

*Deng Xiaoping's economic reform plan

*The plan emphasized agriculture, industry, science and defense

*1989 Chinese students gather in Tiananmen Square to protest their lack of political freedom and their desire for deomocracy

*Deng has thousands of protestors killed and it is seen as a major human rights violation

*Chinese wanted to stop Great Britain from trading Opium

*British win the war, embarrassing loss for China

*Chinese are forced to sign a peace treaty called the Treaty of Nanjing

*Moral philosophy by Confucian

*followed by the Japanese until mao Zedong made it illegal

*Included filial piety and that idea that one should make the right decisions and do things out of love and respect

The idea that you are superior to someone

Ex. viewing foreigners as barbarians

*book written by Mao Zedong

*Was his thoughts on communism

*Replaced confucianism in China

*Pot Pot was the leader of the Communist guerilla group named the Khmer Roughe

*Under his leadership, the group killed over 3 million Cambodians in a reign of terror