Mao's China, 1949-58
- Tradition in China gave new rulers “Mandate from Heaven”
- Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
- The First Plan ( 5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
- Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC’s (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
China's Involvement in Korean War 1950-53
- As U.N. troops got close to the Yalu River China sends almost a million troops
- They drive the U.N. troops almost off the pennisula
- Protect Communism in the north of Korea, which remains to this day