The cultural revolution and its impact 1956-76

Question 1

Cultural Revolution 1966-68

Answer 1

1966-68 red guards unleashed
attack on education capitalist roaders
August 1 mill go to Tianenem square in Beijing for rebel against authority

Question 2

Cultural revoltuion 1968-76

Answer 2

1968-1976 Mao realizes the violence has gone too far send PLA to break up the Red Guard
Schools reopen and RG newspaper shut down
Up the mountains down to the villages campaign for reeducation
17 mill sent to rural areas

Question 3

Purges

Answer 3

1968 2 mill arrested
Many committed suicide or tortured
Any family in West = labour camps
Capitalist roaders and raidcals
Campaign to purify the class ranks 1967-69

Question 4

The Red Guards

Answer 4

Attack on authority
All trying there best to impress mao
Little red book = bible
Aug 1966 Lin Bao intros 4 olds: old customs old habits old culture old ideas
Destroyed museums etc. broke into peoples homes ad destroyed anything old
Purge of the local gov challenge the CCP

Question 5

Impact of the cultural revolution

Answer 5

Maos position is strengthened
Party full of supporters highly suspicious
Education: Schools reopen in 1971
Literacy rates increase by 65% due to expansion of primary schools into ruaral areas
Social: 500,000 arrested and 2 million killed
Economic: 3 mill gov. officials gone and production decreases

Question 6

Effects of the Sino soviet split on Chinese economy

Answer 6

China rev. led by peasants
SU rev. led by industrial workers
1956 Kr denounces Stalin Mao not impressed
Mao wants ot walk on two legs
1960s Kr cricitices GLF
2 bill spent by China to get African Nations support
Brezhnev a revisionist
1969 Lin Bao calls the SU leaders social fascists
1970 Mao wants good relations with USA as a counter threat
1972 Nixon visits
NW no pointed at each other rather than at the West