Mao's China (Edexcel AS)

Created by: Charlie jeal
Created on: 12-05-13 14:39


	Date/period	Event(s)
	1949	People's Republic of China was established.
	1949 - 1976	Number of women workers quadrupled. Literacy rates rose from 20 to 70 per cent
	1950	Start of the authorities' campaign against religion. New marriage law. Mao visited Moscow Sino-Soviet treaty
	1950 - 1953	Korean War
	1951	'Anti-movements' launched
	1952	Political parties, other than the CCP, banned
	1952 - 1956	China's first Five Year Plan
	1953	Death of Stalin
	1954	The fall of Gao Gang and Rao Rushi
	1955	Reform of the Mandarin language
	1956	Collectivisation began Beginning of de-Stalinisation
	1957	Mao attended Moscow Conference One Hundred Flowers Campaign
	1958 - 1962	The second Five Year Plan (The Great Leap Forward) Widespread Famine across China
	1958	Mao gave up presidency of the PRC CCP condemnation of the family as the basic social unit Khrushchev met Mao in Beijing
	1959	Lushan Conference Tibetan rising
	1961	Soviet advisers withdrawn from PRC
	1962	Panchen Lama's report Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping appointed to tackle the famine Mao temporarily withdrew from public life Sino-Indian war Cuban Missile Crisis
	1963	Mao's Little Red Book became a standard Chinese text The Diary of Lei Feng published Mao attacked Soviet policy of coexistence with the West
	1963 - 1975	Vietnam War
	1964	China produces its own atom bomb Khrushchev dismissed in USSR
	1965	The play "The Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office" came under attack
	1966	Creation of the CCRG (Central Cultural Revolution Group) Mao reappeared in public First Tiananmen Square rally Liu and Deng dismissed
	1966 - 1976	The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
	1967	China produces its own hydrogen bomb
	1967 - 1972	'Up to the mountains and down to the villages' campaign
	1968	Soviet crushing of Prague spring
	1968 - 1971	'Cleansing the class ranks' campaign
	1969	Lowest point in Sino-Soviet relations
	1971	Lin Biao killed in a plane crash PRC replaced Taiwan in UN
	1972	'Criticise Lin Biao and Confucius' campaign began Visit of US President Nixon to China
	1973	Liu Shaoqi died in prison Deng Xiaoping brought back into government One Million Barefoot Doctors trained
	1976	Death of Zhou Enlai Tiananmen incident in Beijing Death of Mao