Cultural revolution

By b4F

  • Mao finding red guards

    told students to hunt down revisionists and socialistic people

  • Issue of the "May 16 Crcular"

    Issued by Politburo to drive out people who sneaked into the ccp, government or army

  • Writing of the first dazibao

    A teacher from Beijing University wrote a Marxist dazibao which criticized university administrations and professors

  • First group of red guards

    First group of red guards were formed at Beijing university

  • Mao writes dazibao

    the dazibao encourages people to criticize the ccp leaders.

  • Passing of the sixteen point directive

    the document supports mao on economic policies and the formation of the red guards

  • red guard rally

    around 13 million red guards held their first rally at Beijing under the Tiananmen square

  • Escalation of violence

    The red guards continued to ransack houses destroy and confiscate things tied to the four olds.

  • Spread of Mao propaganda

    Lin Biao and Jiang Qing promoted Mao's cult of personality, propaganda can be seen in homes and walls on the street

  • Dismiss of red guards

    Mao didn't want China to continue to disintegrate so he ordered the pla to dismantle the red guards

  • Formation of the ninth congress

    Made up of people who survived the revolution, Mao claims that the cultural revolution ended that meeting, but the damage continues

  • lin biao's attempts to assassinate mao

    Mao got suspicious of Lin when he continuously requested to get promoted, then he was accused of attempt assassination.

  • Criticise Lin biao crticise Confucius campaign

    Jiang Qing created this campaign to blame all mistakes made in the cultural revolution on Lin Biao, but that eventually failed.

  • End of cultural revolution

    The arrest of Jiang Qing and his followers marked the end of the cultural revolution.

  • Death of Zhou Enlai

    He was a well-respected leader in China, many people went to Tiananmen Square to pay their respect while criticizing Jiang Qiang. I riot then happened with his supporters.

  • Death of Mao

    mao was hospitalized and hua guofeng takes chairman of the ccp.