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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.