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Mao Zedong BIRTH
Mao was born in Shaoshan, a small city from Hunan. -
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MAO ZEDONG
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Mao en Pekín (1917-1919)
Mao moved to Beijing in 1917, accepting a job as a librarian. where he became one of the first Chinese communists. Mao was attracted to anarchism and Marxism. -
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Founding the Chinese Communist Party
Mao had begun teaching history at the Xiuye Primary School and organising protests against the Governor of Hunan Province. In Shanghai, Mao met an old teacher of his, a revolutionary and member of the Chinese Nationalist Party, which was gaining increasing support and influence.The Chinese Communist Party was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in the Shanghai French Concession in 1921 as a study society and informal network. Mao was involved in the movement for Hunan autonomy. -
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Chinese civil war
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party. -
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Mao becomes president
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Mao proclaims the people's republic of china
On October 1, 1949, at the end of the Chinese civil war, when the Kuomintang nationalists only controlled some cities in the south, the leader of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China from the Tiananmen Gate of the Forbidden City of Beijing. -
Mao Zedong’s death