HW 6

1.) Mao's use of psychological warfare came in the dealings with forced starvation of the surrounded Nationalist troops. The lack of food was used as a way to convince the Nationalist troops to switch sides and join the Communists.
2.) The Communists themselves would describe themselves as a friend to the people and their beneficiaries, but many other sources describe them to be just as bad, if not worse than the Nationalists.
3.) People were encouraged to fight amongst themselves and turn in their neighbors for un-partylike activity, much as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia had.
4.) Drafts were instilled in order to increase the number of either soldiers or laborers as well as "drafting" women into the army as support troops and cooks.
5.) The only part of land reform that mattered to Mao was the removal of all prior Land lords by violent means in order to rally the people in one violent cause.
6.) Mao primary goal was to secure power rather than provide for the common welfare of the people. Had his goal been to provide for common welfare, Mao would not have used policies of starving innocent people to death in order to convince them to change allegiances.