Mao took advantage of the outbreak of the war to take extreme measures in China such as:

Great Terror against counter-revolutionaries
- Three antis and five antis
- Justified by the threat to national security
Local leaders were given key roles in organizing the terror
- Ordinary workers denounced unpopular colleagues
Party’s aim was to force foreigners to leave the country
- Americans branded as counter-revolutionaries
- Christian missionaries treated harshly
- Russians remained
Propaganda against the Americans
- Mass meetings in work´places and schools
- Press focused on anti-American sentiment
- Student demonstrations on which anti-American slogans were chanted
  - Participants often did not know about the dangers of capitalism or why was the war fought but there was persecution of people who refused to protest, which ensured mass participation
- People forced to join PLA
Donation of money and goods to help to finance the war
- Farmer’s crops were taken compulsorily
- Taxes raised
Claim that America was using germ warfare against China
- Widespread fear
- “Planes dropping cylinders placed with erm infested insects
  - Exhibition to show evidence of claims organized by Party
  - Russians declared Chinese claims false
- Use of paranoia to justify a campaign to kill the “five pests” (flies, mosquitoes, fleas, bedbugs, rats and dogs)
  - Dogs are seen as a health hazard
  - Keeping pets symbolized bourgeois decadence

	Created by Giselle Rosales over 5 years ago

IB History SL (China) Note on Korean War Effects on China, created by Giselle Rosales on 05/02/2019.