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mao declares victory in the communist revolution and established the peoples republic of china
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articles in the state controlled papers introduced the idea of a "cultural revolution"
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Mao officially launchesd the "cultural revolution" with a sppech at the chinese communist party
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red guards achieved the overthrow of provincial officails and rplaced them with radicals
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top level communist party officials called for an end of the cultural revolution, but mao continued to support it.
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mao replaced pre- cultural revolution party officials with radicals who supported the revoluton.
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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
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mao declared victory of the cultural revolution and supported lin bao as his new successor
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mao called for the red guards to destroy the four olds; old custom, old culture, old habits, and old ideas
