Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Alex_A65

  • Communists Win

    Mao declared victroy in the communist revolution and established the peoples republic of china.

  • news introduces the cultural revolution

    Articles in the state controlled papers introduced the
    idea of a “Cultural Revolution.”

  • cultural revoluion is launched

    Mao officially launched the “Cultural Revolution” with a
    speech at the Chinese Communist Party

  • red gaurd told to to distroy the "old four"

    Mao called for the Red Guards to destroy the “Four
    Olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old
    ideas.

  • Red guard overtrhow provincial party

    Red Guards achieved the overthrow of provincial party
    committee officials and replaced them with radicals.

  • Commumist party trys to end cultural revolution

    Top-level Communist Party officials called for an end of
    the Cultural Revolution, but Mao continued to support it.

  • Moa replaces pre-cultural revolutioin officals

    Mao replaced pre-Cultural Revolution party officials with
    radicals who supported the revolution

  • Red guard id broken up

    On Mao’s orders, the Red Guards were broken up in the
    “rustification movement,” where individual teenagers
    were “sent down” to villages throughout China to “learn
    from the peasants.”

  • Mao declares victory

    Mao declared “victory” of the Cultural Revolution and
    supported Lin Biao as his new successor.