Mao+Zedong

Mao Zedong was leader of China's Communist Revolution in 1927. He was a guerrilla warfare strangest, poet and politician, ruling China until his death in 1976. During his rule China's population almost doubled going to 900 million people, it is also believed that he killed 70 million in his period of control. In 1949 Mao began the "Cultural Revolution" in which he grew fearful of capitalism growing in the country. to counter this he began to strain the upper class so that the majority would be in charge instead of the elite few. In 1950 he sent the People's Volunteer Army in Korea resulting in the War in Korea. He began a land reform campaign that would result in the killing of 1,000,000 and a counter revolution campaign that would kill 800,000 people. In 1958 he started his second 5-year-plan to industrialize the country such as what Stalin did with Russia. September 7, 1976, Mao died in a hospital due to health issues.