Transcript Aim: Would you have supported Mao Zedong’s Communist Party?

Do Now:
Pair up with your partner & together
explain what the following quote means:
“The end justifies the means”
 In pairs, students read Letters A & B
 Answer the questions that follow each letter
 Fill out the graphic organizer explaining if the
accomplishments of Mao were positive or negative
Positive
Accomplishments
Negative
Accomplishments
Positive Accomplishments Negative Accomplishments
-Increased military power
- created atomic bombs
-Millions of new jobs for
Chinese people
-Built 1000s of miles of new
roads
- built new factories
-Workers received equal
treatment
-Gov’t took all private
property from the people
-Loss of personal rights &
freedoms
-People continued to be very
poor
-Gov’t used forced labor to
build China’s industries
-Mao ran China as a dictator,
the people had no say in the
government’s decisions
 Would you have supported the
Communist Party in China?
 Why?