Revolution

**Essential Questions:**
== **1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? == The people themselves should decide what is best for them. Individuals who are trained to lead them.

 2. What makes people comply or reject?
The way people are treated makes them comply or reject. When their rights are in jeopardy can make them reject. The people receiving what they want can make them comply.

 3. What makes a revolution successful?
The will of the people to be free from oppression makes a revolution successful. Masses of a population makes a revolution successful, a population with the same common goal.

 4. Who are the winners in a political revolution
The winner in a political revolution is the group that gets what they want. The people who get their governments to change can also be winners of a political revolution.

 5. What causes change in a society?
Political leaders are what cause (good and bad) change in a society. Technological and environmental changes can also cause change in a society.


 * Revolution: **


 * ** Define it in your own words: ** A revolution is an uprising or revolt of the people to rid themselves of an oppressive force and govern themselves/be free.

====An overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. ====
 * ** Look up a definition of the term: **

Attacks on official government buildings, attacks on government military forces, graffiti tags
 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolutions **

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1. Equality 2. Liberty 3. Justice I feel that that equality is the most important, because without equality, liberty is not as good as it seems for all human beings, and justice is not truly fair if not everyone is treated equally.

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What is the message of this political cartoon? The message of this political cartoon is that just because things are equal and the same, does not mean that they are fair for all of the people involved.

Chinese Revolutions summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10H79AfBqn1QZW07GJt83ejAaJeYyvGkMj4FNvKTvshQ/edit

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 meaning of this quote is that revolutions are not peaceful or formal, they are violent uprisings. One class overthrowing another

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The meaning of this quote is that the army of a revolution is the people itself; they are the ones overthrowing the government. A revolutionary war is contained of masses of people.
 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">— From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The meaning of this quote is that war, which has existed for centuries, is the most difficult way to solve a problem. A revolution is the highest struggle to solve. A struggle between haves and have-nots.
 * <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."

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The meaning of this quote is that the only way to be a successful Communist leader is to scare the people and threaten them. Whoever has the most power militarily is the one 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**__?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mao Zedong might define revolution as a violent conflict begun due to opposing classes in a society, between the people and the government. Classes also overthrow each other.


 * __**<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) **__
 * I do agree with the quotes of Mao, because there has not been a successful peaceful revolution (quote 1). The members of a revolutionary army are only the people of that nation (quote 2). War is the most difficult struggle to resolve, because it leads to incredibly high amounts of death (quote 3). And the only way for Communism to be successful is for the leaders to invoke fear in the people, which is why Communism does not work (quote 4). Revolutions must be controlled through force.

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What do you see in the video? What is missing?
 * Video on Modern China:**
 * There are only pictures in this video

I see pictures of cities and skyscrapers, dams, soccer stadiums, fountains, monorail trains, fancy modern buildings, and a Chinese flag. Shots of individual people and government buildings/officials, etc., are missing.