DO NOW: The following selections are from the Thoughts of Chairman Mao. For many years, Chinese
peasants and workers learned to read by studying the "Little Red Book," the name given to Mao's sayings by
westerners. Read the selections carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot
be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an
insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot  be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an  insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse Tung was a Chinese statesman, he was born in the city of Hunan in 1893, he was born into a family of rural workers. Where his childhood lived, school education was only considered useful to the extent that it could be applied to tasks such as taking records and others proper to agricultural production. Therefore, Mao Tse Tung abandoned his studies at the age of thirteen to devote himself entirely to work on the family farm.

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.