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the long March
Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the Chinese military.
The Mao took his Communists through China away from attacks to stop them.
Mao marched almost 6000 miles. -
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One hundred flowers campain
Mao made an unusual request.
He called for the nation's intellectuals and asked them to engage in open criticism of the Party.
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The great forward
The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy.
One that, by 1988, would rival America.
Forced farmers to work in “communes” instead of for themselves -
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The cultural revolution
Mao staged public rallies involving thousands of young supporters.
He calculated correctly that the young wouldn't remember much about the failure of the Great Leap Forward and the millions of deaths. -
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Mao death
Mao died from complication of Parkinson's disease on September 09, 1976, at the age of 82, in Beijing, China.
