Stalin Quiz and Introduction to China

Agenda 9/29:

1. Students took a quiz on Stalin.
2. Students began reading about Mao Zedong's rise to power in the Pearson text.
3. Students defined key terms and answered reading questions [below].

Reading Questions for Pearson Chapter 5, Section 1 (pgs. 143-156):

• What was Mao’s background and why is it significant?
• What was happening in China between the fall of the Qing dynasty and 1928?
• The CPC and the GMD fought both as allies, in a “marriage of convenience” and as enemies. Identify reasons for and explain the shifting relationship from the 1920s until the Communist victory in 1949.

• Make a t-chart. Title it “GMD weaknesses | CPC Strengths”. Complete the chart considering events from the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.

HOMEWORK:

Finish Reading Pearson 5.1. Come in prepared to discuss the reading questions.

China: Century of Revolution