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Mao Declares Victory
[ Mao Zedong Information](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong)Mao declared victory in the Communist revolution and established the People's Republic of China. After over 2 decades of civil and international wars, China was finally a Communist Country. -
Cultural Revolution, and Red Guard Groups Emerged.
Video About the Cultural Revolution Articles in the state controlled papers introduced the idea of "Cultural Revolution", whcih is a program to weed out counter-revolutionary elements in Chinese society. Also, Red Guard Groups, made up of the Chinese Youth emerged in China. -
Mao Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mao officially launched the "Cultural Revolution" with a speech at the Chinese Communist Party. -
Red Guards Ordered To Destroy "Four Olds"
Mao called for the red guards to destroy old customs, old habits, old culture, and old ideas, he ordered this so that Cultural Revoultion will move along quickly. -
Red Guards Overthrow Provincial Party
Red Guards Achieved the overthrow of provincinal party commite officials and replaced with radicals. -
Top Level Communist Vote to end Cultural Revolution
Top- Level Communist party officals called for an end of Cultural Revolution, But Mao continued to support it. -
Mao Replaces Party Officals
Mao replace pre-Cultural Revolution party officials with the radicals that supported him. -
Red Guards Sent to learn from Peasents.
On Mao's Order, the red guards were borken up into "rustification movement" where individuals teenagers were sent down to learn from the peasents. -
Mao Declares Victory
Lin BiaoMao Declared victory of the cultural revolution and supported Lin Bao as his new sucsessor,