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Summary Communist China
Mao's rise to power and creation of the CCP and communist China. Explores the insights of his policies that allowed his maintenance of power and consolidation throughout a big part of the 20th century.
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Mao’srise to
power
, Timeline:
1911: Collapse of the
ruling Qing Dynasty.
1921: Mao Zedong
becomes one of the
founders of the CCP
1924: Formation of
the First United
Front
1927: Shanghai
Massacre, the
1945: Japan ‘White Terror’
defeated at the end
of Second World
War 1937: Japanese
occupation of China
1946-49: Civil war
between the CCP
and the Nationalists
1949: Communist
victory and Mao
declares the PRC
1950: ‘Campaign to suppress
counter-revolutionaries’, anti-
religion campaigns begin and
China enters the Korean War 1952: The First Five Year
Plan. Political parties other
than the CCP are banned.
1956: Collectivization
began
1957: the Hundred
Flower Campaign
1958: The Great Leap
Forward
1958-61: The Soviets
denounce Mao’s Great
Leap Forward and the
famine that ensures
1966: Mao launches
the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution
1971: PRC replaced
by Taiwan in the
United Nation
1976: Mao dies
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