Powerpoint presentation

1. Tuesday, May 14th
HW: Read pages 1059-1063.
Answer questions 3, 4, and 5.
Aim: How did Deng Xiaoping’s economic
reforms influence China?
Do Now: Do you think the Great Leap Forward
and the Cultural Revolution increased or
decreased Mao’s popularity?

4. Chinese Grab Bag Modernization
-Industry
-Deng allowed some private
businesses to operate
-Agriculture
-Deng dismantled communes
-Leased land to farmers
-Food production increased
-Science and technology
- Defense and military forces
were improved.

5. How did the Four Modernizations impact China?
Positive Negative
+ Economy grew - Gap between rich
and poor widened
+ Standard of living - Crime
+ Foreign relations
and trade improved
Chinese demand greater political freedom

6. SUMMARY
Describe two ways in which
Deng Xiaoping’s methods
differed from Mao Zedong’s.

7. Aim: How did the Communist government react
to Chinese demands for greater political
freedoms?
Do Now: Why do you think the leaders of China
were willing to accept Western economic
reforms but not Western ideas about human
rights and political freedom?

9. Chinese demand greater political freedom
• In April of 1989, more than 100,000
students occupied Tiananmen Square.
The students protested for democratic
reforms.

11. Communist government reaction
• On June 4, 1989, thousands of armed
soldiers stormed Tiananmen Square.

12. • Chinese Red Cross – 2600 causalities
• Chinese government – 241 causalities
“The true number of deaths will probably never be known, and
it is possible that thousands of people were killed without
leaving evidence behind. But based on the evidence that is
now available, it seems plausible that about 50 soldiers and
policemen were killed along with 400 to 800 civilians.” –
Nicholas D. Kristof

13. “Tank Man”

14. • Brutal repression of the prodemocracy
movement left Deng and Communists in
control of China.