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The Chinese communists in Malaya initially tried to stir up anti-British sentiment but failed, so they took to violence and retreated to the jungles. From 1945-1948, the Malayan Communist Party was legal and used this time to influence workers, leading many strikes in 1946-1947. However, the workers grew tired of strikes that did not improve their conditions and realized the communist trade unions were not acting in their best interests.
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Potsdam ConferenceJuly 16 – August 2, 1945• Leaders agre.docx
Potsdam Conference
July 16 – August 2, 1945
• Leaders agreed that
Germany must be
defeated and de - Nazified
• Leaders disagreed over
post – war Germany and
Eastern Europe
• Britain and United States
wanted free elections
• Stalin feared anti – Soviet
governments in Eastern
Europe
Expansion of Communism
• Russia in 1917 due to revolution
• Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland and Romania following World War II
in 1945
• North Korea following World War II in 1945
• China in 1949 following World War II and civil war
• Cuba in 1959 following a revolution
• Vietnam in 1975 following the Vietnam War
Prelude to Russian Revolution
• By 1900, withdrawal of European investments in
Russia weakened industrial and economic
development
• Defeat in the Russo – Japanese War in 1905
devastated the Russian economy
• Worker strikes, peasant uprisings and military
mutinies spread across Russia in 1905
• Struggling industrial class resented the lack of
government action against unions and strikes
Bloody Sunday
• On January 22, 1905, in
St. Petersburg, around
3,000 workers marched
on the Winter Palace
• Imperial guards fired
upon and kill nearly 200
people
• Tsar Nicholas II was
blamed for the incident
• Initiated widespread
strikes and protest
Russia to World War I
• By 1907, political unrest led to the rise of new
political groups, including the Bolsheviks
• Widespread worker strikes stagnated industrial and
economic growth
• Unprepared for the outbreak of World War I
• Russian military was poorly led, armed, supplied
and trained
• By 1916, failures on the battlefield led to low
morale in the military and the populace
The Russian Revolution
• On February 23, 1917,
protest over food
rationing erupted in St.
Petersburg
• On March 15, 1917, Tsar
Nicholas II was forced to
abdicate and a
provisional government is
installed
• In July 1917, Bolsheviks
under Lenin rose in revolt
and gained power by
October
Vladimir Lenin
• Born on April 22, 1870,
in south central Russia
• Trained as a lawyer
• Execution of his brother
in 1887 made him anti-
tsarists
• Became involved with a
Marxist group in St.
Petersburg in 1893
Vladimir Lenin
• Arrested in 1894 for illegal political activities
• Exiled for three years to Siberia in 1897
• Lived abroad in Munich and London after exile
• Continued to print Marxist publications
• Fled to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I
• Returned to Russia after the February Revolution to
take control of the Bolsheviks
Lenin and Russia
• Established the Russian
Communist Party in
March 1918
• Established the Politburo
as the governing body of
the party
• Made reforms to gain
worker and military
support
• Ended involvement in
World War
Reforms of Lenin
• In October 1917, issued Decree on Workers Rights,
establishing an 8 hour work day
• Issued Decree on Popular Education
• On November 8, issued Decree on ...
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2. Fidel Castro was the communist leader of Cuba. He took power in 1959 and led Cuba until 2008. He is no longer alive.
3. In 1961, the US tried to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government, but the invasion was a failure.
4. An embargo is an official ban on trade with a particular country.
5. The Soviet Union had nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba in 1962.
6. The leader of the
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H12 ch 14_china_2013
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2) Despite American efforts to avert civil war, fighting broke out in 1946 and the communists gained control of China by 1949, forcing Jiang and nationalist leaders to flee to Taiwan.
3) Diplomatic recognition of communist China was slow, with the USSR providing early recognition while the US withheld it due to Mao's support for revolution abroad and involvement in
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