Revolution

**Essential Questions:**
== **1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? == The people themselves .The people should decide, or someone elected by the people

 2. What makes people comply or reject?
It's situational but its usually to do with how the change will affect them

.When a leader does something bad then its rejected, but if the majority agree then its a comply.

 3. What makes a revolution successful?
Numbers and persistence and having a realistic goal

.If they're persistent and hard headed, also if they know what they want.

 4. Who are the winners in a political revolution
The people, it causes the government to change

.depends on the the size of this change

 5. What causes change in a society?
.Decisions from political leaders

Revolution:

An uprising against a government or a group of people in order to achieve freedom and equality a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. Wars, strikes, stubborn, unfair, equality, sabotage.
 * ===**Define it in your own words:**===
 * ===**Look up a definition of the term:**===
 * ===**What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions**===



1.Equality 2.Justice 3.Liberty I feel as though that would be Equality do to the fact that without it race/religion/gender would define our quality of living or level of education.
 * **Rank**, **which of the three concepts discussed**
 * **Which do you feel is the most important and why?**


 * Fever Model of the American Revolution**

What is the message of this political cartoon?

The message is that just because something is equal doesn't mean its fair, everyone has their own needs in order to put them on the same level as someone else.

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1. From the late 1800s to the 20th century, what were some of the "underlying" cause of unrest in China (Incubation period) corruption, peasant unrest, ineffective government as well as an increase in population. The poor far outweighed the wealthy. as well as the Opium war. There where tremendous amounts of famine killed millions of Chinese. 2. What changes occurred in China after the revolution of 1911? The Quing Dynasty was overthrown by Sun Yat-Sen very little changed but there was an attempt to westernize china. Because of this western influence many cities did become wealthy but only a few Chinese Elites benefited from this. 3. Explain the role of the Nationalists and Communists in the Chinese Government Nationalists controlled the south with their government while the Communists controlled the north. 4. Highlight the role of Mao in China Mao's role was to be the leader of china as well as equalize all of china so there would be no difference in social classes. He also attempted to raise food production in china with "The Great Leap Forward" but that ended badly as all the peasants became overworked and started to melt down their belongings for makeshift farm tools. He also got rid of any intellectuals who had a negative opinion on communism. Then he wanted to get rid of "The Four Olds" by creating the Red Guard who where there to rid china of any impure communists. Created the people liberation army. No more private ownership of businesses and took away landowners land. Burnt churches and Synagogues.

=China Under Mao=
 * Estimates 50-77 million people died during the reign of Mao Zedong
 * China did not make the airplane
 * China was dictated by Dynasties ruled by Emperors
 * Chinese rebels forced out the Chinese emperor in 1911
 * Chinese civil war started in 1927
 * in 1949 china was communist
 * china renamed "The Peoples Republic of China"
 * Mao wanted to rid china of any social inequality
 * Mao changed the focus from Agriculture to Industry causing a famine
 * this lead to the death of 30-45 million deaths
 * Red Guard was created to challenge china's elites
 * Mao died in 1976
 * Europeans became interested in china when the want for goods increased
 * 1949 civil war ended giving communists all the power

Summary: During Mao's rule he attempted to help the new Peoples republic of china. This lead to the death of over all 50-75 million people. He wanted to rid China of any social inequality, this itself killed 3-6 million people along with the Red Guard which was created to challenge China's elites. Then when he shifted china's focus from agriculture to industrial focus he killed 45 million people due to an inefficient production of food with the conjoined farms. He died in 1976.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.


 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan// **

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. Once a population has set a goal its hard to stop them, you have to hope they make the right decision along the way. You must have the people on your side for a successful revolution.
 * — From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes. The imbalance between the upper and lower class.
 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." communist have to lead with force. Whoever controls the military it is them who will rule.
 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— From //Problems of War and Strategy// **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?

He might define it as a large gathering of the lower class to over throw the upper-class men in order to reach ta state of equality. It most definitely involves violence

I do agree with his quotes, they all hold truth to them. In the first quote he makes a lot of sense when he writes that revolution is not something that can be refined and controlled its an act of violence. And his second quote when he explains its not about just having numbers but putting those number to use in the form of moving them out into combat.
 * __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes) **__

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