Mao+Zedong

One of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong led a brutal reign on the Chinese people.

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 in the small village of Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China. His father had risen from poverty and became a wealthy farmer. He recieved some of his schooling from his village but left home at the age of 17 to attend middle school in the capital of his province, Changsha. In 1921, at the age of 28, he founded the Chinese Communist Party in Shaghai, China. Seven years later, he formed up a group of peasents to cerate a peasant army to fight Jiang Jieshi and his Kuomintang clan. In 1930, the Kuomintang executed his first wife. He then founded a Communist Republic in 1934. When the Japanese attacked China, he made amends with Jiang Jieshi, teaming up to fight those darn Japanese. When the war against the Japanese ended in 1946, he and the Communists continued their fight against Jeishi and the Kuomintang. This time, however, Jiang fled to Taiwan. Later on in 1950, Mao intervened in the Korean War. Moa later on announced his "Great Leap Forward" plan in an attempt to indutrialize China. He later died in 1976 as one of the greatest leaders in Chinese history.