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The People's Republic of China
Mao declared victory in the Communist revolution and established the People's Republic of China -
Articles in the state controlled papers introduced the idea of a "Cultural Revolution"
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Mao's Red Guards
Red Guard groups, made up of Chinese youth, emerged throughout Ghina -
Mao officially launhced the "Cultural Revolution" with a speech at the Chinese Communist Party.
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Destruction of Four Olds
Mao called for the Red Guards to destroy the "Four Olds": old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas -
Red Guards achieved the overthrow of provincial party committee officials and replaced 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 Revoltuion party officials with radicals who supported the revolution
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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 for the peasants."
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Mao declared "victory" of the Cultural Revolution and supported Lin Biao as his new successor
