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First got into power of the communist party China
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Beijing’s Tiananmen
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At the end of 1958 over 700 million people were placed into 26,578 communes each commune housed approximately 5,000 families
Sichuan and Gansu were amongst the first to suffer from the famine in 1958, -
Beginning of the regime
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Eastimated 40 million people died from starvation during this time
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decade-long period of political and social persecution. Encouraged by Mao, Red Guard soldiers began harassing, torturing and imprisoning and murdering Mao’s political rivals as well as intellectuals, scientists, artists, teachers and others who were seen as a threat to the Communist regime and labeled as “counterrevolutionaries (rebel kids)
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Deng Xiaoping comes to power and beginds economic reforms he puts 4 of the powerful comrades of Chairman Mao on trail to create political stability (including Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing)
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YUM! brand, Qianmen Beijing
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Beijing, it was the largest McDonald's restaurant in the world
700 seats
29 cash registers
1st day : served 40,000 customers
