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• China's population increase in the 19th century

  Doubled from 1/4 billion to 1/2 billion
• Chinese revolution against the Qing


  1911
• Republic of China formed

  1912
• Anti-government movements against the Paris Peace conference

  May 4th 1919
• CCP founded

  1921
• Alliance between the CCP and GMD to overcome the warlords

  1924-27
• Mao's response to Chiang Kaishek's attempted extermination of the CCP in 1927

  Autumn Harvest rising
• Mao killed 4,000 red army soldiers in the 'futian incident' in 1930
• The long march


  1934-1935
• Mao's code of conduct for troops


  • Replace borrowed articles, don't take liberties with women, don't kill prisoners of war
• The CCP grew from 40,000 to 1 million between 1937 and 1945
• Percentage of China that were urban industrial workers

  4%
• Percentage of China that were rural peasants

  Over 80%
• Japanese occupation of China began

  1937
• 'Rectification of conduct' campaign


  1942-44
• 60 communist party officials committed suicide rather than undergo public humiliation in the 'rectification of conduct' campaign
• Mao elected as Chairman of the Central Committee of the CCP

  1943
• 6 million soldiers died in the Chinese civil war
• Chinese civil war

  1945-1949
• Mao declared the PRC to have come into being

  1st October 1949
• Regions China was divided into


  6
• Major officials of each region in China

  • Chairman
  • Party secretary
  • Military commander
  • Political commissar
• Reunification Campaigns


  1950
• PLA armies were sent to Tibet, Xinjiang and Guandong in the reunification campaigns
• 1 million landlords were killed during the PRC's land campaign of the early 1950s
• 100 flowers campaign


  1957
• Slogan of the 100 flowers campaign

  'Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend'
• Jung Chang's perspective on the 100 flowers campaign was that it was a trick
• Lee Feigon's perspective on the 100 Flowers Campaign was that Mao had originally been genuine
• Mao's 5 year plan introduced

  1952
• Great Leap Forward


  1958-62
• 70,000 communes were created across China during the Great Leap Forward
• Around 40 million people starved to death between 1958 and 62
• Peng Duhai asked for action to be taken to stop the famine
• Cultural revolution

  1966-1976
• Motives for the cultural revolution

  • Fear of opposition
  • Age
  • Paranoia
  • Resentment
  • Ideology
  • Bureaucracy
  • International rivalry
  • Nationalism
• 'The Little Red Book' published


  1964
• There were 750 million sales of the little red book in the first 4 years
• It was announced that the CCP was infected with 'revisionism'

  April 1966
• Cultural Revolution launched

  18th August 1966