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Childhood
-Born Dec 26th, 1893 in Hunan Province -By 17 Mao recognizes famine in the province -Served in 1911 Chinese Revolution in the Revolutionary Army -1921 Mao is introduced to Marxism while working at Peking University -
Communist Party of China
-Mao is one of the founders of the CPC -Follows the ideas of Lenin and the Russian Revolution -Attends 1st National Congress meeting as a Hunan representative -
Autumn Harvest Uprising
-Mao takes an army of peasants to fight Kuomintang and Hunan landlords -Defeated by Kuomintang, the Nationalist Party (KMT) -Retreated to Jiangxi -After defeat Mao and other leaders start using guerilla tactics to fight back -
Yang Kaihui
-Mao's first wife -Joined Communist Party of China in 1921 -Kuomintang members captured her and Mao Anything, their son in October 1930 -Anything was forced to watch the torture and murder of his mother -
The Long March
-Chiang Kai-Shek, KMT leader, attacks the Communists -87,000 soliders retreat to Hunan from Jiangxi -In 1935 Mao gains control of the Red Army's retreat- 368 days
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"Dixie Mission"
-The United States Army Observation Group -First official relations between the US and the CPC -Stayed four years in Yan'an -US wanted information on Communist areas -
People's Republic of China
-Announced on October 1st, 1949 -led by CCP -Mao is Chairman -4.9 million members -Workers, peasants, lower-middle class, national-capitalists -90% peasants "People's democratic dictatorship" -
The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and mutual Assistance
-Soviet Union recieced rights, like a naval base, in exchange for
Military support, weapons and econmoic and technological assistance
-China joined Socialist nations against Japan and the US -
Invasion of Tibet
-Negotiations with the Dalai Lama were denied -Mao claimed Tibet had been poisened by Religion --10,000 killed during invastion -87,000 Tibetans killed in resistance -China declares martial law -More than 250,000 Tibetans are put in prison or labor camps -Women raped -Children beat with whips and electric wires -Tortured, biten by dogs and burnt with cigarettes -
First 5 year plan
- Industry needed reforms
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Hundred Flowers Campaign Movement
-6 weeks period -Mao encouraged criticism of CCP to help 5 year plan success -Mao felt threatened by the criticism -About 300,000 people who criticized the CCP were labeled rightists -Intellectuals were placed under more strict control as a result of the movement -
The Great Leap Forward
-Modernize agriculture and industry -700 million people placed in communes, 5,000 families in each one -Citizens had to give up their tools and animals, worked for the commune not for themselves -Propaganda was played over speakers and was plastered everywhere -Factory injuries were common -Aproximately 20 million people died -15 million due to starvation -About 9 million died in 1960 -Commune leaders were prisioned if they complained about the workload -
Mao's Little Red Book
-Important source of knowledge -About 427 quotes of Mao's -In every home, school, hotel, factory and university -5 billion copies printed during The Cultural Revolution- 50 different languages
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Red Guards
-Students and young people -Used in support of Mao -Attacked "the Four Olds"
Ideas, cultures, manners, customs -Anyone with Western or traditional things- Destroye books, clothing, art, music, temples
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The Cultural Revolution
-Mao feared the Russian revolution was going bad so he feared for China- He wanted new leaderrs, to fix the CCP and to change education and health policies
- Political leaders were removed from power, they also tried stopping the movement
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Death
-Mao Zedong dies September 9th 1976 Due to ALS -Succeedor Liu Shaoqi denounces Great Leap Forward -Mao honored for uniting China, creating a Republic of China and leading one of the greatest social revolutions in history -Peasentry revolutionary potential theories and foreign policy basics still influence China today -Mao is also responsible for one of the worst genocides of the 20th Century -40-70 million dead between Tibet and China
