Mao's and Deng's china

DEng leaves seventh battalion

Mar 19, 1931

deng left seventh battalion, where he was fighting against kuomitang. Chiang Kai-shek's forces were superior, so their confortational strategy didn't work . he ran away and some time later, appeared in shanghai.

proclamation of PRC

Oct 1, 1949

DEng attended the proclamation of PRC in beijing., after what he was appointed to lead the liberation of southwest china.

mass execution

Nov 29, 1949

The start of mass execution of landlords and other "rightists", over 1 million were killed.

Sino-soviet treaty

Feb 14, 1950

sino-soviet treaty signed between Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong

Deng's speech

Jul 7, 1962

Deng talked about poeple's commune system and that it should take a bit of break, and the peasants deserved to own a land. in this speech he also said his famous words- '' it doesn't matter if it's white cat or black cat, it's good if it catches mice''.

Removal of Deng from party's leading power apparatus

Feb 2, 1976

Central Comitee discussed top-priority directive, and transferred Deng to work on external affairs.

Mao's opinion about Deng

Mar 3, 1976

Mao stated that Deng was rather internal then external problem.

Mao's death

Sep 9, 1976

Mao died, aged 82.

Chairman Deng

Jul 22, 1977

After Mao's death, deng was restored to his post as vice-chairman.

Tiananmen square

Jun 4, 1989

the soldiers, sent by government, opened fire to the peaceful demonstrators, as they fought their way to tiananmen square. it was due to the embarrassment and shame demonstrators caused the government while Gorbachev's visit, and partly because, that they were protesting against the ''holy communism'' of china.