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Birth
Mao Ze Dong was born on December 26, 1893, in Changsha Fu -
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Civil War
The Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Chinese communists was over who would control the mainland of China -
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The Long March
Mao lead around 100,000 of his fellow Chinese communists the 12500 km to Shaanxi Province, fleeing from Kai-Shek's Kuomintang Army -
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Japanese Invasion
The Chinese Civil War was interrupted in 1937 by the Japanese who were invading China from the East with brutal force. The Rape of Nanking was a tragic and horrific event in which Japanese troops tore their way through Nanking, raping women, looting and pillaging property and murdering civilians. All of China united to fight the common enemy, and defeated them in 1945. -
People's Republic of China
As a result of the civil war, the Chinese communists exiled the Democratic Nationalists, and made the mainland of China the People's Republic of China -
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First Five Year Plan
The First Five Year plan was a plan to rebuild China's fallen economy by setting major goals for industries and and priority areas of production. -
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Hundred Flower Campaign
In May 1956, the Chinese government began to lift restrictions on Chinese intellectuals giving them greater freedom of speech and encouraging them to criticize the governmental policies until the government thought it had gone too far and began disrupting the lives of those who continued to speak freely -
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was a plan implemented by Mao Zedong. This plan suggested that the Chinese government take over land and worked it in agricultural communes. During the Great Leap Forward, human quality was mistaken, therefore putting farmers into factories and engineers into the rice fields. -
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Cultural Revolution
When Mao noticed an increase in capitalistic ideas in his communist China, he launched the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution involved the persecution of Chinese intellectuals, with the offenders either being executed or sent to re-education camps where they were brainwashed -
Death
Mao Ze Dong died of a heart attack on September 9, 1976, in Beijing China
