China

By ttttiera

  • Mao Zedong

    Mao founded the Republic of China.
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    China

  • KMT forces retreat to Taiwan

  • New Marriage Laws

    New law bans polygamy and arranged marriages.

  • Korean War

  • Agriarian Reform Law

    the land of land lords and wealthy farmers is re-distributed to millions of peasants.

  • Five-Anti Campaign

    "The people must not be corrupt by capalist thinking." 5 antis- bribery, theft of state property, tax evasion, cheating on government contracts, and stealing state economic info.

  • Emergence of "Sino-Soviet Split"

  • Birth Control

    first mass mobilization for birth control has very little impact.

  • Anti- Rightist Campaign

    used by Mao to eliminate critical intellectuals.

  • Great Leap Forward

    triggers the largest famine in human history. 14 to 30 million casualties.

  • All land is collectivised

    farmers are organized into large People's Communes

  • 14th Dalai Lama

    head of the state for th Tibetan government.

  • Population growth peaks

    300 million babies are born

  • Socialist Education Campaign

    2 reasons- Mao's socialist dream of rural collectivation and the political rise of the party bureaucracy.

  • test of 1st nucleur bomb

  • Religion

    religious practice is condemned as feudalistic.

  • Destruction of "The Four Olds"

    olod ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

  • Cultural Revolution

    Red Guards and Authority grasped the power and drove China into severe confusion.

  • 1st satellite launch "Long March"

  • Maximum family size

    in cities allowed up to two children. in rural areas allowed 3 to 4 children

  • Mao died

  • Arrest of Gang of Four

  • Entrance examinations

    the national unified entrance examinations for universities is re-introduced.

  • Deng Xiaping

    wins the power struggle after Mao's death.

  • The 1978 Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China

    guarantees freedom of religion with a number of restrictions.

  • new "Birth Planning Small Leading Group"

    to strengthen family planning

  • "The Four Modernizations"

    goals to strengthen the feilds of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology.

  • strict one child family planning

  • New Criminal Codes

    legally banning torture and physical punishment of suspects.

  • Cultural Fever

    intellectuals identify China's "feudal" traditions are reasons for backwardness.

  • open forced labor camps for re-education

  • Tiananmen Incident

    gathered to protest against central authority

  • waves of protest in rural areas, concern the government

  • start of the "Three Gorges Dam" project

  • Death of Deng Xiaoping

  • Project Yangtze

    provides special funds to leading researchers

  • intensified anti-corruption activist

  • U.S, grants China permanant normal trade relations

  • Falun Gong members stage mass demonstrations in Beijing

  • China becomes a member of the World Trade Organization

  • "Fourth Generation" leadership installed

  • China shoots down weather satellites

    to demonstrate capability of destroying hostile spy satellites.

  • Yahoo

    accused of having provided information that led to imprisonment of civil rights activist in China.

  • KMT returns to power

  • Chongqing gang trials

  • largest automoblie market in the world

  • China joins super computing elite

  • Elders criticize censorship

  • China unveiles its new J-20 stealth fighter