Mao - Timeline Flashcards

1
Q

Chen Yun dismissed

A

1966

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2
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Lin Biao’s death (plane crash)

A

1971

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3
Q

Gao Gand committed suicide

A

1954

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4
Q

Peng lost power after criticising the Great Leap Forward

A

1959

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5
Q

Suppression of Counter Revolutionaries launched

A

October 1950

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6
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Three antis

A

1951

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7
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Five antis

A

1952

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8
Q

PLA had more than 5 million men by…

A

1950

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9
Q

PLA members cut by 50% between…

A

1950-57

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10
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CPC membership 11 million by…

A

1956

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11
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Hundren Flowers Campaign

A

February 1957

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12
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Khrushchev attacked STalin in the ‘secret speech’

A

February 1956

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13
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Anti Rightist Campaign begins

A

June 1957

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14
Q

Agrarian Reform Law Law

A

1950

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15
Q

Mutual Aid Teams introduced

A

1951

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16
Q

Agricultural Producers Cooperatives introduced

A

1953

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17
Q

APCs made compulsory

A

1955

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18
Q

Advanced APCs set up

A

1956

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19
Q

90% of families are in APCs by…

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1956

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20
Q

First Five Year Plan

A

1952-57

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21
Q

Chinese economy stabilised

A

1952

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22
Q

10,000 Soviet advisers sent to help China

A

1952

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23
Q

Treaty with USSR for 5 year loans

A

1950

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24
Q

Khrushchev offers to help with building China’s atomic weapons

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1955

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25
Q

National expenditure increases from 7,000 million to 30,000 million between…

A

1952 and 1957

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26
Q

Great Leap Forward

A

1958-61

27
Q

Great Famine

A

1959-62

28
Q

Backyard furnaces failed by…

A

1959

29
Q

Peng Denuai tries to warn Mao of reality of the famine

A

July 1959

30
Q

Split with USSR

A

1960

31
Q

96% of Chinese people literate by…

A

1976

32
Q

Marriage Law

A

1950

33
Q

Maternity benefits introduced

A

1951

34
Q

Almost 50% of doctors and 30% of engineers are women by…

A

1970

35
Q

Mao stepped down as President

A

1959

36
Q

Liu and Deng given higher roles in the party and left in charge of politics and the economy

A

1961

37
Q

Grain production gone back to the level in 1957 by…

A

1965

38
Q

Production was double the 1957 figure by…

A

1965

39
Q

Socialist Education movement

A

1963

40
Q

Wu Han trap

A

1965

41
Q

Tiananmen square (more than 1 million Red Guards at a mass rally attacking the four olds)

A

18th August 1966

42
Q

Liu died in prison

A

1970

43
Q

the Cultural Revolution

A

1966-71

44
Q

Mao discovers Lin’s supposed planned coup

A

September 1970

45
Q

130 million youths stopped attending schools between…

A

1966 and 1970

46
Q

Money invested in education only 6.4% of total budget

A

1952

47
Q

31 Western schools/universities removed between…

A

1951 and 1952

48
Q

Patriotic health movements

A

1949

49
Q

Over 1 million new doctors trained as barefoot doctors in..

A

1973

50
Q

State invested only 1.3% of budget into health

A

1952

51
Q

Tibetan rising

A

1959

52
Q

The PLA cut to 2.5 million (halved) by…

A

1957

53
Q

Mao used Politburo meeting to accuse Gao and Rao of attempting to build independent kingdoms in…

A

December 1953

54
Q

Mao slows down pace of change (rash retreat)

then Mao speeds up pace of change (rash advance)

A

1953

1954

55
Q

‘Rapid collectivisation’ begins

A

1955

56
Q

Launch of the third 5 year plan

A

1962

57
Q

9th Party Congress (confirmed the purge of Liu and Deng and elevated Lin Biao)

A

1969

58
Q

Soong Ching Ling elected to vice-chairperson of the Central People’s Government

A

1949

59
Q

Electoral Law, allowing women to vote

A

1953

60
Q

16 million women had learnt to read by…

A

1958

61
Q

70% of women were engaged in agricultural work by..

A

1957

62
Q

Pinyin alphabet introduced

A

1955

63
Q

26 million children started receiving primary education in..

A

1950s

64
Q

PLA took 40% of state budget in

A

1952