Mao's China

• CCP came into power


  1949
• PRC introduced


  1949
• Korean War


  1950-1953
• Marriage reform


  1950
• 3 anti's movement


  1951
• 5 anti's movement


  1952
• 1st Five Year Plan


  1953-57
• start of collectivisation


  1954
• peasant ownership


  1957
• Tiananmen Square built


  1957
• Great Leap Forward


  1958
• Great Famine


  1958-1962
• Lushan Conference


  1959
• power struggle


  1962 - 1966
• cultural revolution


  1966 - 1976
• August rally


  1966
• Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages campaign

  1967 - 1972
• Fall of Lin Biao


  1971
• Deng Xiaoping back in party


  1975
• Mao's death


  1976
• communism


  the idea that everyone within society is equal, everything is owned by the state and the state provides for everyone
• PRC


  People's Republic of China
• hyperinflation


  when there is too much money, things lose value
• CCP


  Chinese Communist Party
• Bureaucracy


  the attitudes of government officials and the bourgeiouse
• Rectification Campaign


  the red guard were sent to the countryside to learn to live like peasants
• PLA


  People's Liberation Army
• Struggle sessions


  humiliation attempt that people were forced into
• Yuan


  chinese currency
• collectivisation


  Peasants were forced to work on collective farms
• walking on two legs policy


  urbanisation and industrialisation at the same time
• utopian society


  perfect society
• Lysenkoism


  8 point programme on how to change farming
• politburo


  government
• Tiananmen Square


  main square in China - mass rallies of 1966 occured here and where Mao's body is
• gang of four


  group of four including Mao's wife who brought about lots of changes in the Cultural Revolution
• Wall poster campaign


  using universities to attack four olds
• the little red book


  book that had all Mao's rules in - given to red guard
• Great Leap Forward (1958)


  2nd five year plan that led to the Great Famine
• CPPCC


  Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference