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Mao Zedong <3

  • Birth

    Birth

    Mao Zedong is born in the Hunan Province.
  • Period: to

    Communism in China

  • Chinese Communist Party

    Chinese Communist Party

    Mao is one of the founders of the CPC.
    Becomes Hunan's representative in the Party
  • Autumn Harvest Uprising

    Autumn Harvest Uprising

    Mao commands peasants to fight the KMT
    They get f***ed by the Nationalists and retreat to Jiangxi
  • The Long March

    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

    Mao seizes power

    After defeating the KMT, Mao seizes power and starts the People's Republic of China
  • Invation of Tibet

    Invation of Tibet

    Mao said Tibet was poisoned by religion.
    Raped women and murdered the population
  • Malin <3

    Malin <3

    Mao and Stalin make a Sino-Soviet pact for alliance and cooperation.
  • First 5 Year Plan

    First 5 Year Plan

    Industry needed reforms
    Steel, coal, iron production
  • Hundred Flower Campaign

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    China enters the UN

    Deng Xiaoping is the spokesman
  • Zhou Enlai dies

    Zhou Enlai dies

    He was suppoed to be Mao's successor but he was very ill with cancer and died before him.
  • Mao Dies

    Mao Dies

    He died
  • Gang of Four Overthrown

    Gang of Four Overthrown

    They had been struggling for power.
    -Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen
    They get arrested