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Nationalists were trying to escape the Chinese communists when they fled to Taiwan in 1949.
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Mao Zedong propsed a plan called the Great Leap Forward in 1958.
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The Red Gaurds, Chinese commuinist teenagers, began the Cultural revolution - a series of intense rallies in favor of communism - in 1966.
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The Khmer Rouge, "Red Rule", took place in Cambodia in 1968.
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The capitol of Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the communists in 1975.
