Ib History Mao’s Cultural Revolution Notes

The great Proletarian cultural change * All over china was the campaign to destroy the old and build the new * Abolishing the four olds * The great deal crowding Beijing in 1966 carried the little red book and the monoamine oxidase badge * forcefully taken away anything old or has tralatitious values. * The children were taken into actions as well * Giving social advantages to the Red guards, mebibyte took advantage * The youth were educated of the revolutionary stories * Women had equal status in the revolution as men did Political figures such as Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei were persecuted and in the end dead * 1968 the red guards started to fight each other, the PLA joined different groups make increase in violence * Same year Sino-Soviet battle in XinJiang threatening Chinas national security, monoamine oxidase ordered to drop the revolution in the XinJiang Province * Later on that year he decided that the revolution has reached its primary goals, therefore declared the success of the revolution * Students were sent home, but when some university students continued to fight, PLA was sent in * monoamine oxidase restructured the government by forming the Revolutionary Committee which runs the country. Power struggle prosecute * 1966-1969 the dark time of the cultural revolution, half a million large number died from torture * Youths were raised without supervision caused social instability * A all generation, the realization that their loyalties earned them only manual labor jobs in agricultural China and that their supposed counter revolutionary targets were exonerated contributed to changing attitudes towards the companionship and its ageing leadership. Economy fell as most of the urban workers were struck in politics, as did agriculture and production * 1971, Lin Biao tried to assassinate Mao, the 571 incident. after(prenominal) failure he tried to escape on a monotonous which was shot down * 1972, Nixon came to China due to international p ressure in the UN as well as US political needs * adjoin tension with USSR, India, DPRK, North Vietnam, therefore needed the improved relations with US * Jan 1976, Zhou Enlai died Later on that year Zhu De died. September 9th, Mao died * Maos widow Jiang Qing with three other men were arrested for crime against state, and humming Guofeng would succeed Mao. Maos Impact Though his failure in the great leap forrad and the cultural revolution, he remained an moving-picture show in China, but was portrayed as a tyrant in overseas. * Heightened esthesis of nationalism was when the CCP defeated the Japanese, which laid foundation for the overall success in 1949 * He made China to stand up, which is why he remained an icon for most Chinese people * Economically, despite the setbacks from the great leap forward and the cultural revolution, China did develop hugely in economic arena during his rule. * Life expectancy reached 65 by the time of Maos death. * Women gained the same social s tatus as men did * Literacy rate increase