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Birth
Mao Zedong is born in the Hunan Province. -
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Communism in China
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Chinese Communist Party
Mao is one of the founders of the CPC.
Becomes Hunan's representative in the Party -
Autumn Harvest Uprising
Mao commands peasants to fight the KMT
They get f***ed by the Nationalists and retreat to Jiangxi -
The Long March
Communists had to March so that they did not fall victims of the KMT.
It lasted 368 days.
9,000 km were marched. -
Mao seizes power
After defeating the KMT, Mao seizes power and starts the People's Republic of China -
Invation of Tibet
Mao said Tibet was poisoned by religion.
Raped women and murdered the population -
Malin <3
Mao and Stalin make a Sino-Soviet pact for alliance and cooperation. -
First 5 Year Plan
Industry needed reforms
Steel, coal, iron production -
Hundred Flower Campaign
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, and a hundred schools of thought contend.”
Communist indoctrination; learn from Stalin's mistakes. -
Great Leap Forward
"Whoever could use chopsticks can operate a machine"
-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 -
Lil' Red Book
Mao's thought was compilated in the Little Red Book, quotations of Chairman Mao, which held "the absolute truth and was not to be revised". -
Great Proletarian 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
-Wanted to purge the economy and revive relvolutionary spirits, remove capitalists and revisionists.
-Put in motion by Mao, but enforced mainly by students (Radicals) -
Lin Biao dies
After falling from Mao's grace (lol), he suspiciously dies in a Plane Crash in Mongolia.
Lin Biao was the Defense Minister -
China enters the UN
Deng Xiaoping is the spokesman -
Zhou Enlai dies
He was suppoed to be Mao's successor but he was very ill with cancer and died before him. -
Mao Dies
He died -
Gang of Four Overthrown
They had been struggling for power.
-Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen
They get arrested
