chinas cultural revolution

  • victory in communist revolution

    victory in communist revolution
    mao declares victory in the communist revolution and established the peoples republic of china
  • articales introduces idea of a "cultural revolution"

    articales introduces idea of a "cultural revolution"
    articles in the state controlled papers introduced the idea of a "cultural revolution"
  • speech at the communist party

    speech at the communist party
    Mao officially launchesd the "cultural revolution" with a sppech at the chinese communist party
  • red guards overthrow

    red guards overthrow
    red guards achieved the overthrow of provincial officails and rplaced them with radicals
  • call for an end to the revolution

    call for an end to the revolution
    top level communist party officials called for an end of the cultural revolution, but mao continued to support it.
  • mao replaces cultural rev. officals with radicals

    mao replaces cultural rev. officals with radicals
    mao replaced pre- cultural revolution party officials with radicals who supported the revoluton.
  • mao orders teens to go to villages to learn from peasents

    mao orders teens to go to villages to learn from peasents
    on maos orders, the red guards were broken up in the rustificaton movement where indivisual teenagers were sent down to villages through out China to learn from the peasonts
  • mao declares victory

    mao declares victory
    mao declared victory of the cultural revolution and supported lin bao as his new successor
  • mao orders to get rid of the four olds

    mao orders to get rid of the four olds
    mao called for the red guards to destroy the four olds; old custom, old culture, old habits, and old ideas