Key Dates

Question 1

Civil War in China

Answer 1

1946-49

Question 2

The establishment of the People’s Republic of China

Answer 2

1949

Question 3

The Korean War

Answer 3

1950-53

Question 4

Marriage Law passed

Answer 4

1950

Question 5

Tibet becomes part of the People’s Republic of China

Answer 5

1950

Question 6

Suppression of counter-revolutionaries campaign begins

Answer 6

1950

Question 7

Three Antis campaign

Answer 7

1951

Question 8

Five antis campaign

Answer 8

1952

Question 9

First Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives (APCs) established

Answer 9

1952

Question 10

Purge of Gao Gang and Rao Shushi

Answer 10

1953

Question 11

First Five Year Plan

Answer 11

1953-57

Question 12

‘Higher-Stage’ Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives introduced

Answer 12

1955

Question 13

Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 13

1957

Question 14

Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan)

Answer 14

1953-57

Question 15

Power struggle between Mao and Liu Shaoqi/Deng Xioping begins

Answer 15

1962

Question 16

Little Red Book published

Answer 16

1962

Question 17

Third Five Year Plan launched

Answer 17

1963

Question 18

Socialist Education Movement launched to purge the party and spread Mao’s ideas

Answer 18

1963

Question 19

China tests its first atomic bomb

Answer 19

1964

Question 20

Cultural Revolution

Answer 20

1966-69

Question 21

January Revolution in Shanghai

Answer 21

1967

Question 22

PLA begins to restore order

Answer 22

1968

Question 23

Official end of the Cultural Revolution

Answer 23

1969

Question 24

The succession crisis

Answer 24

1969-76

Question 25

Flight and death of Lin Biao

Answer 25

1971

Question 26

Visit of US President Nixon

Answer 26

1972

Question 27

‘Gang of Four’ launches Anti-Confucius campaign

Answer 27

1973

Question 28

Death of Mao

Answer 28

1976

Question 29

Death of Zhou Englai

Answer 29

1976

Question 30

Demonstrations against the ‘Gang of Four’ in Tiananmen Square

Answer 30

1976