purely dates :)

• what happened in 1949?

  1. Communist Red Army defeats the Nationalists in a civil war. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is established on October 1.
• what happens in 1950 in China?

  1. Signing of Sino-Soviet Treaty.
  2. China enters the Korean War.
  3. Marriage Law was promulgated, providing freedom of marriage and divorce.
• what happened in 1951 china?

  1. Basic land reform completed after a five-year campaign. All land deeds destroyed and land redistributed (roughly two million landlords executed).
• In 1951 --> Basic land reform completed after a five-year campaign. All land deeds destroyed and land redistributed (roughly two million landlords executed).
• In 1953 


  Korean War armistice.

  Inauguration of PRC's First Five-Year Plan, relying on Soviet model of industrial development.
• Hundred Flowers Movement and the Anti-Rightist campaign is from 1956-1957
• in 1961-1965

  • Lin Biao, defense minister and one of Mao's allies, leads campaigns to increase political consciousness in the military by stressing the study of Mao's thought. --> The Little Red Book
• 1966-1969

  1. Mao leads the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," to attack the Party bureaucracy that was frustrating his initiatives and to revive revolutionary commitment.
  2. Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are purged
• 1969


  Lin Biao succeeds Mao as "closest comrade-in-arms and successor"
• 1971


  Lin Biao is executed after supposed coup