Mao Timeline
Updated 20 Feb 2021
IB HL Asia/Pacific History
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Created byHazel Tepper
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Emergence of the CCPDeath of Sun Yatsen, Chiang Kai-Shek became United front leaderThe White TerrorFutian IncidentZunyi ConferenceMao's rectification campaignsMao became "Chairman of
the Communist Central
Committee and Chairman of
the Politburo"Mao published "On
New Democracy"Japan's full-scale invasion of ChinaGMD turned on CCPGMD's Main Mistakes:
1) Disregarded Japanese invasion, let CCP to take credit
2) Betrayed CCP & was stubborn, lost support
3) Let corruption persist
4) V bad moral, dictatorial rule, repression = unpopular, proved Mao's point
5) Caused hyperinflation, damaged econ, increased taxes on peasants = lost both middle class & peasant support
6) Forced S & thinly spread, CCP able to control much countryside & N China
7) Sent best troops to Manchuria before controlling N & central China, lost ManchuriaCCP's Main Strengths:
1) Used guerrilla training to hold N China & rural areas
2) Secured control of N China, made incursions into cities
3) Popular support, effective propaganda, appealed to peasants
4) Created cult of leadership
5) Weapons from ex Russian occupation, GMD defectors
6) Lin Biao's mil expertiseMao proclaims peoples'republic of China100 Flowers CampaignPremier Zhou Enlai's Death4 Pests CampaignsLushan ConferenceMay 16 NotificationCultural Revolution
“Attack on four olds” - old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture
Led by Red Guards, made up of students loyal to Mao
Party officials, teachers and intellectuals were most at risk, being publicly
humiliated, beaten and in some cases murderedStudents sent to countryside for re-educationMao Yangtze SwimNixon Visit to ChinaMao's DeathSpeak Bitterness CampaignAgrarian Reform LawPeriods
First KMT CCP united frontNorthern
ExpeditionNanjing decadeJiangxi SovietThe Long MarchSecond united
front against
JapaneseCCP in YananJapanese OccupationSecond Civil WarFirst civil warAnti-Rightest campaignGreat Leap Forward
Second Five Year PlanCultural Revolution
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