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Mao Zedong Dbq

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Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist and father of the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong grew up farming and had arranged marriage. He got his power by getting a lot of support from peasants from China. The communists were led by Mao Zedong. The Chinese communists got their power in 1949. Mao Zedong did not make a better society economically because he did not improve the quality of lives for people because there wasn’t enough jobs. He did make a better society socially because he improved living conditions, women got freedom after the law, and expanded education.

Mao Zedong didn’t make a better society economically because he did not improve the quality of lives for people because there wasn’t enough jobs. Document 1 by Wang Xin a …show more content…

This document shows how living conditions and independence did not improve for landowners. Landowners only lost their land and homes. It wasn’t fair how low classes were able to make more money when landowners couldn’t have better living conditions. Document 9 by an unknown person who was an economist made a line graph for people interested in China’s GDP to see how China’s GDP was at that time. This line graph shows how the quality of people’s life wasn’t improving because there wasn’t any jobs for them. The economy was very weak since there wasn’t enough jobs. Factories didn’t improve either they stayed the same because of the value of the materials. People couldn’t afford things because since there wasn’t jobs they didn’t have enough money to be able to buy things. The Communist China notes talks about the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward began from 1958 and ended in 1960. During 1959 through 1961 about 50 million people died of starvation. Mao forced people to work and it …show more content…

Document 1 by Wang Xin a Chinese peasant who wrote this document for people interested in Xin’s life to talk about life in China during communist rule. This document shows how Mao helped poor people by giving them better living conditions. Also, he helped the poor people by giving them independence. Document 2 by Chow Qingli who was forced into marriage in China before 1950 wrote this document for people interested in China during the modern times to discuss women’s experiences during that time. This document shows how women got their freedom after the law gave them permission to marry whoever they wanted. Before things were really difficult for women because they couldn’t chose their own husbands. Mao helped them by making the law change and women could have all the freedom they needed. The Communist China notes talks about the reforms Mao did to the society. Mao expanded education for the lower class students. This made the society better because now everything was equal since everyone had education. Many kids got the chance to have a higher level of reading and writing. Children got the chance to have a better life and be able to learn new things. Document 7 by an unknown photographer took a picture for people interested in the Cultural Revolution to show that there was discrimination against Buddhism. Even though, there was discrimination against a

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