Second Communist System

China
In 1949 Mao Zedong, the leader of the communist party in China, won twenty year civil war against the Nationalist and he created The People's Republic of China, which was automatically accepted as a legitimate country to the Soviet Union. The next year, in 1950, China supported the communist party in North Korea during the Korean War and supplied them with tons of troops, which helped them fight off the United States and push them back to the border of North and South Korea when they entered the North. Mao believed that the poor people in China were the greatest supporters of the communist party. In 1958 he launched "The Great Leap Forward" which was a five year economic plan which created an intense labor intensive farming industry. After two years this economic plan was dropped because it caused an economic breakdown. They blamed the disruption to the agriculture for the millions of deaths due to starvation during the next harvest session. Later on in 1966, Mao created a political and ideological campaign called "Culture Revolution," it was a ten year plan to revive revolutionary spirits, but it causes massive social, economical, and political change. In 1976 Mao dies, and in 1977 Deng Xiaoping because the dominant leader, and he tried to put China through a far-reaching economic reform. From 1986 to 1990 China had a "Open-door policy" which opened China up to investments form other countries and promoted a market economy and private sectors. In 1989 troops opened fire on protesters who were camping out for weeks to try and get CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang back, who was forced for resign in 1987. The total amount of deaths was 200, and it caused an international outrage. Jia Zemin takes over the Communist Party general secretary in 1989 and later becomes President of China in 1993. During this time China and Russia signed a declaration restoring friendly ties. China wanted to intimidate Taiwan during their presidential election during 1995, so China tested their missiles and held military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. In 1998 Li Peng announced reforms having to do with the financial crisis which made the economy to decelerate. Thousands of state owned companies were reconstructed which resulted in share flotations and bankruptcy, in the end about four million civil service jobs were cut. In 2000, China tried to crackdown on corruption, and they did this by executing   a former deputy chairman of the National People's Congress for bribes. In 2003 Hu Jinao, the leader of the communist party, was elected for the president. In 2006 18 million people in China were affected with seemed to be the worst drought in 50 years. Later on in 2006 the government announced that the pollution in China was at a critical level which threatened peoples health and social stability. The next year, in 2007 China tested a missile in space by hitting an old weather satellite, which caused the United States, Japan, and other countries concern for the military buildup in China. Also in 2007 new labor laws were created after finding men and boys working as slaves in a brick factory. In 2008, five months before Beijing hosted the Olympics, the anti-China protested got worse and even violent, and they even get attention on a global level by delaying the torch rely. Also in 2008, China and Russia have signed a treaty having to do with border disputed that started 40 years ago during the Cold War. In 2008 hundred were killed or injured due to ethnic violence that broke out in the Xingiang region, the next year in 2009 six men were put to death for having to due with the ethnic violence. In 2010 a there was a growing fear for the United States that China will have a cyber attack on the United States. In 2011 China passed Japan and became the second largest economy in the world. In 2012 Bio Xilai is expelled from the communist party for abuse of power and corruption, he created the biggest scandal in years, and he also was guilty for killing Neil Hollywood, a British Businessman. On November of 2012 Xi Jinping takes over the Communist Party chief and is expected to become the president in March of 2013. A Tibetan monk was sentenced to death, and his nephew 10 year in jail, in January 2013 for forcing eight people to burn themselves to death. About 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, and it was in protest of the Chinese rule.

Communism in Cuba

A communist party was formed in Cuba in 1925 but didn't become the main power of Cuba till 1959 when it was taken by force. On January 1st 1959 Fidel Castro takes over the government. Eisenhower approved of a partial economic embargo on Cuba, with the exception of food and medicine in 1960 in hopes to get Castro out of office. Just a year later the U.S Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which created a total embargo on Cuba so the United States wouldn't trade with them at all. Castro wanted to get independence from the United States, and the Cuban government found out about a invasion that the United States was planning before it happened, so Cuban exile troops were left on the beaches and shot and killed. The USSR used Cuba to their fullest advantage after the United States had no power over it. The Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba so if needed they could accurately attack populated areas of the United States with these missiles. This is what started the Cuban missile crisis. In the end a Kennedy- Kruschev pact was signed and it guaranteed Castro to have power for thirty years, and then in 1966 the Cuban Adjustment Act was signed, which causes one and a half Cubans to flee from Cuba and into the United States. After the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the economy went down more than 40% because Cuba no longer got money from the Soviet Union. During this time, Castro started a new motto of 'Socialism or Death.' Some of the people in Cuba took the risk of going in the high seas to the United States in order to get out, and others thought that socialism is death. In July of 1993 the Cuban coast guards found a group of mainly women and child trying to flee the country and the coast guards used high pressure hoses to force them into the sea to their deaths, when the women begged to not harm their children. In November of 2001 Hurricane Michelle hit Cuba and caused a lot of damage to the island, and it had destroyed sugar mills and tobacco fields, which was the main source of Cuba's income at that point. This caused even more stress on Cuba's economy, and the United State's gave Cuba aid after this hurricane for the first time in years. In 2006 Fidel Castro gave the Presidency to his brother Raul while he recovered from a surgery, but in 2008 Fidel Castro retired giving Raul the title of President of Cuba. To this day Raul is still the President of Cuba, but he recently announced that he believed that a President should only serve two terms, and therefore he will step down from being President in 2018.