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NATO. Use page 814 to answer the following questions What is NATO? When was NATO founded? Why was NATO founded?. China Becomes Communist. A civil war took place in China from the end of WWII until 1949
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Use page 814 to answer the following questions • What is NATO? • When was NATO founded? • Why was NATO founded?
A civil war took place in China from the end of WWII until 1949 • The two sides (Nationalists and Communists) had avoided conflict with each other while fighting the Japanese • After WWII, the Communists under Mao Zedong fought the Nationalists, who were led by Chiang Kai-Shek and were in power • The US supported the Nationalists • In 1949, the Communists took control of mainland China and the Nationalists fled to Taiwan
Readings Guiding Question: Was Mao Zedong or Chiang Kai-Shek a better leader for China? • Read the biography of Mao Zedong and underline or highlight anything that can help you answer the guiding question • Write a 40-60 word summary of what the biography of Mao Zedong has to say about the guiding question
Readings Guiding Question: Was Mao Zedong or Chiang Kai-Shek a better leader for China? • Read the biography of Chiang Kai-Shek and underline or highlight anything that can help you answer the guiding question • Write a 40-60 word summary of what the biography of Chiang Kai-Shek has to say about the guiding question
Readings Guiding Question: Was Mao Zedong or Chiang Kai-Shek a better leader for China? • Read page 816 and take notes on anything that can help you answer the guiding question
SCR Practice Guiding Question: Was Mao Zedong or Chiang Kai-Shek a better leader for China? • Write a thesis answering the guiding question
Posters • You will take on the role of political activists in the US in 1948 and create posters trying to convince the American people to support either Mao Zedong or Chiang Kai-Shek • decide which side you want to support • Create a poster containing both images and text