Timeline

Question 0

1921

Answer 0

Communist Party of China (CPC) is established

Question 1

1893

Answer 1

Mao is born

Question 2

1934-35

Answer 2

The Long March - Mao leads communist forces in a break out from Jiangxi on a 12,500km trek to Yan’an

Question 3

1937

Answer 3

Communists and Nationalists form a united front against Japanese soldiers

Question 4

1941

Answer 4

Nationalist forces attack communists in the south of China

Question 5

1945 (4)

Answer 5

Japanese surrender after atomic bomb lands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Soviet troops occupy Manchuria (China)
Mao flies to meet Kai-sheik for peace under American auspices
Mao and Chiang reach agreement but fighting between Communists and Nationalists intensifies

Question 6

1946

Answer 6

Ceasefire (previously agreed) breaks down and civil war begins

Question 7

1948

Answer 7

Communist forces capture Manchuria

Question 8

1949

Answer 8

Communists defeat nationalists and establish the People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Question 9

1950

Answer 9

Start of Korean war
New marriage law gives more legal protection to women
Suppression of counter revolutionaries begins

Question 10

1951

Answer 10

Three-Antis campaign begins to eradicate corruption among party officials. It’s official targets were corruption, waste and obstructionist bureaucracy

Question 11

1952 (2)

Answer 11

Five antis campaign is launched to eradicate corruption among businessmen and mainly the bourgeoisie. It’s targets were bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts and economic espionage.
Any political parties other than CPC are banned

Question 12

1952 (part 2)

Answer 12

First agricultural producers cooperatives are established.

Question 13

1953

Answer 13

End of Korean war
Launch of first 5 year plan for industry
Purge of Geo Gang and Rao Shushi from the party leadership

Question 14

1955

Answer 14

‘Higher-stage’ Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives mark a decisive shift towards collectivisation of agriculture

Question 15

1957

Answer 15

Hundred Flowers campaign encourages intellectuals to criticise the party followed by an anti-Rightist purge of intellectuals

Question 16

1958

Answer 16

Mao launches the Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan for industry)

Question 17

1959

Answer 17

Purge of Peng Dehuai from party leadership

Question 18

1962 (3)

Answer 18

Launch of 3rd 5 year plan for industry
Start of power struggle between Mao and Liu Shaoqi/ Deng Xiaoping
Launch of the Little Red Book quotations by Chairman Mao

Question 19

1963

Answer 19

Launch of socialist education movement to spread Mao’s ideas and purge the party

Question 20

1964

Answer 20

China successfully tests its firsts atomic bomb

Question 21

1966

Answer 21

Mao launches the Cultural Revolution

Question 22

1967

Answer 22

January revolution in Shanghai results in the overthrow of Party Leadership by Red Guards. This is followed by February Crackdown in which PLA starts to suppress red guard violence

Question 23

1969

Answer 23

Cultural Revolution is officially declared to be over by Party Congress

Question 24

1971

Answer 24

Line Bao dies in an air crash after an unsuccessful attempt at a coup

Question 25

1972

Answer 25

American President Richard Nixon visits China to begin process of restoring normal relations between the two powers.

Question 26

1973

Answer 26

Anti-Confucius campaign is launched by the Gang of Four

Question 27

1976

Answer 27

Jan- death of Zhou Enlai
Apr- demonstrations against gang of four in Tianamen Square
Sept- Mao dies

Question 28

1952-1956

Answer 28

Chinas first 5 year plan

Question 29

1966-1976

Answer 29

Cultural revolution

Question 30

1958-1962

Answer 30

The Great Leap Forward

Famine as a result of the great leap forward

Question 31

Great Leap Forward (date)

Answer 31

1958- 1962

Question 32

Cultural revolution date

Answer 32

1966-1976