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People begin feeling upset about the Qing Dynasty's rule in China
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Chinese Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty collapsed.
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Starts to take over China
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Chiang Kai Shek the leader of the Chinese Nationalist party.
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The invasion of Najing caused destruction and left around 100,000 and prisoners of war
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throughtout the 1950 's and 60's the Chinese goverment did make a number of changes that benefitted women. Women were granted legal equaility to men. Women could take part in politics and had equal marriage and divorce rights. Mao also ended the centuries old practice of foot biding. Women were expected to work alongside men on collective farms and communes.
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In this plan Mao created communes (combined collective farms). Each commune had 30,000 workers that worked day and night to produce as much they could.
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he aim was to destroy the "four olds" of china old ideas, old customs, old culture, and old habits. To do this he created the Red Guard. Red Guard was a communist military police made up of committed young communist who went around the country cleansing Chinese society of impure communist. They destroyed churchs, books and temples.
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he was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping a more practical leader.
