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Mao ZeDong is born
Mao Zedong also known as Mao Tse-Tung was born on December 26, 1893 in the farming community of Shaoshan in the province of Hunan China to a peasant family. His parents were Mao Yichang (father) and Wen Qimei (mother). (Gale Database Encyclopedia Of World Biography) (Biography.com) -
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World War I begins
World War One began after the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the war was Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire vs Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States. Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States won in the end but the war took 16 million peoples lives. (History.com) -
Mao graduates from Hunan First Normal School
in 1918 at age 24 mao Zedong graduated from the Hunan First Normal School becoming a certified teacher, sadly that was the same year Maos mother Wen died at age 52. Mao didnt want to return homw so he went to beijing to try and find a job and became a librarians assistant. (Biography.com) -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression began when the stock market crash of October 1929 and caused 15 million people to become unemployed leaving the economy at an all time low. (History.com) -
World War II begins
World War 2 began because of Hitler and his want to have world domination so Hitler invaded Poland and caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany which started the deadliest war in history killing 45-60 million people. (History.com) -
Mao establishes the peoples republic of china
After Mao makes himself head of state he announces the existence of the peoples' republic of China, the people's republic of China was the climax of battles between Mao's communist forces and regimes of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek, the loss of China to communism was a big blow to the United States. (History.com) (Biography.com) -
Mao Launches "Hundred Flowers Campaign"
The Hundred flowers campaign was a movement that encouraged people to express their concerns and opinions on the communist regime and expected to receive a lot of useful ideas and mild criticism but received the exact opposite, Mao feared he would lose power so he abolished the movement and labeled hundred to thousands rightest and imprisoned thousands. (Biography.com) -
Mao Launches "Great Leap Forward Campaign"
the Great leap forward to try and increase agricultural and industrial population. It turned out to be a massive failure and a huge famine occured and caused over 40 million deaths in total becoming one of the worst manmade famine in history. (Biography.com) (Gale Database Encyclopedia of World Biography) -
Berlin Wall Is Built
August 13, 1961 barbed wire is strung between the border of east and west germany to stop people from fleeing the wall was built and was 12 ft high and 96 miles long and anyone who tried to cross was shot. (Gale database International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences) -
Mao loses power for a little due to the failure of "The Great Leap Forward"
The great leap forward was one of Maos biggest mistakes and as a result of its massive failure mao lost his power for about 25 years and his rivals took power. Mao wasent completely pushed aside though he just wasnt a central figure in leadership. (Biography.com -
John F Kenedy is assasinated
while riding with his wife in an open car through Dallas, Texas Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was one of the 4 only presidents to be assassinated while in office and he was only in office for 10036 days. (Gale Database Dictionary of American Biography) -
Mao Launches The "Cultural Revolution"
The cultural revolution was maos way of regaining power after his loss of it from the great leap forward the way he did it was in an autocratic way mao made up a crisis that only he could solve he said that bourgeois elements in China were aiming to restore capitalism so his followers formed the red guard which were made to "purge the undesirables" mao then reclaimed his power and closed chinas schools and send the students to the country to be re-educaited through labor. -
Mao Launches "Cultural Revolution continued
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1st man lands on the moon
The united states send a team of astronauts on the apollo 11 to the moon to win the space race during the cold war. (History.com) -
Mao met with Richard Nixon To erase tensions with the United States
Maos health was declining fast and he wasnt very well but he wanted to do one last thing and that was to meet with the United States President Richard Nixon to erase past tensions between the two countries . (Biography.com) -
Mao ZeDong dies
Mao died on September 9, 1976 in Beijing from Parkinson's disease at age 82 Mao made a huge mark on China in both a good and bad way. Mao was remembered as a great strategist and maintained power for most of his life and established himself as a world power. (Biography.com
