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Chen Yun dismissed

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1966

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Lin Biao’s death (plane crash)

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1971

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Gao Gand committed suicide

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1954

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Peng lost power after criticising the Great Leap Forward

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1959

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5
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Suppression of Counter Revolutionaries launched

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October 1950

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Three antis

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1951

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Five antis

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1952

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8
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PLA had more than 5 million men by…

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1950

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9
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PLA members cut by 50% between…

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1950-57

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10
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CPC membership 11 million by…

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1956

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Hundren Flowers Campaign

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February 1957

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Khrushchev attacked STalin in the ‘secret speech’

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February 1956

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13
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Anti Rightist Campaign begins

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June 1957

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14
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Agrarian Reform Law Law

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1950

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15
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Mutual Aid Teams introduced

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1951

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Agricultural Producers Cooperatives introduced

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1953

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17
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APCs made compulsory

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1955

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18
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Advanced APCs set up

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1956

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19
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90% of families are in APCs by…

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1956

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20
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First Five Year Plan

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1952-57

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21
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Chinese economy stabilised

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1952

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22
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10,000 Soviet advisers sent to help China

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1952

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23
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Treaty with USSR for 5 year loans

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1950

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Khrushchev offers to help with building China’s atomic weapons

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1955

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National expenditure increases from 7,000 million to 30,000 million between...
1952 and 1957
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Great Leap Forward
1958-61
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Great Famine
1959-62
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Backyard furnaces failed by...
1959
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Peng Denuai tries to warn Mao of reality of the famine
July 1959
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Split with USSR
1960
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96% of Chinese people literate by...
1976
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Marriage Law
1950
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Maternity benefits introduced
1951
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Almost 50% of doctors and 30% of engineers are women by...
1970
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Mao stepped down as President
1959
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Liu and Deng given higher roles in the party and left in charge of politics and the economy
1961
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Grain production gone back to the level in 1957 by...
1965
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Production was double the 1957 figure by...
1965
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Socialist Education movement
1963
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Wu Han trap
1965
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Tiananmen square (more than 1 million Red Guards at a mass rally attacking the four olds)
18th August 1966
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Liu died in prison
1970
43
the Cultural Revolution
1966-71
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Mao discovers Lin's supposed planned coup
September 1970
45
130 million youths stopped attending schools between...
1966 and 1970
46
Money invested in education only 6.4% of total budget
1952
47
31 Western schools/universities removed between...
1951 and 1952
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Patriotic health movements
1949
49
Over 1 million new doctors trained as barefoot doctors in..
1973
50
State invested only 1.3% of budget into health
1952
51
Tibetan rising
1959
52
The PLA cut to 2.5 million (halved) by...
1957
53
Mao used Politburo meeting to accuse Gao and Rao of attempting to build independent kingdoms in...
December 1953
54
Mao slows down pace of change (rash retreat) | then Mao speeds up pace of change (rash advance)
1953 | 1954
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'Rapid collectivisation' begins
1955
56
Launch of the third 5 year plan
1962
57
9th Party Congress (confirmed the purge of Liu and Deng and elevated Lin Biao)
1969
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Soong Ching Ling elected to vice-chairperson of the Central People's Government
1949
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Electoral Law, allowing women to vote
1953
60
16 million women had learnt to read by...
1958
61
70% of women were engaged in agricultural work by..
1957
62
Pinyin alphabet introduced
1955
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26 million children started receiving primary education in..
1950s
64
PLA took 40% of state budget in
1952

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