-
Birth
Mao Zedong was born in a poor provence in Hunan -
Period: to
Mao Zedong
-
School
Moa went to the public school in his village and went to a high school in Changsha -
Revolution
while at high school revolution broke out against the last of the Qing dynasty
joined the revolution but saw that their was no action and returned to school . -
After High School
after high school he graduated from a provincial teacher training college he then went to bejing and became a liberain assistant at the university of bejing -
Peasent Unions
During the 1920’s Mao spent all of his time organizing peasant unions in his native Hunan Province. -
Communist Party
he attended the Chinese communist party’s founding congress in Shanghai. When he saw these Marxis theories through the communists eyes he thought that the rebels were formed by the peasants rather than in an embryonic industrial working class. -
The start of the Red Army
at end of ten years ,with the Communists fighting for survival against Chang Kai-sheik's nationalist government. He lead the revoluation his title at his peak of power was the parties supreme leader and stayed that way between 1937 through 1945 Mao commanded the red army. it became a political as well as military organization. -
The First of the Wars to Come
In1945, Mao and his army fought a new enemy in Japan. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, Mao and his commanders refined the art of "people's war." Mao summed up the strategy in only 16 Chinese characters: "The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue." -
Tricking The Nation
He thought that they could win the trust of the nation by keeping civilized and not looting, raping or destroying anything. He thought that he could pass off the ideal military force or as he said “ swim among the people, as the fish swim in the sea” -
Over Powering the People
Mao and his forces were not gentile in establishing their regime in the first years hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions were imprisoned, tortured, or executed as land lords or capitlalist exploiters. At the end of the Sino-Japanese war Mao conquered japan, -
Murder of the People
during those same first years millions more were imprisoned or tortured for real or imaginary crimes against the revolution or simply having a privileged background -
Conquered
at the end of the Sino-Japanese war Mao conquered japan, following the defeat the Communist and Nationalists were still fighting but by now the tide was in favor of Mao.by the fall of 1949 the Nationalists and what was left of the army fled -
The Korean War
not even a year and the Korean war broke out presented Mao with difficult choices. between continue re-building china or facing the north Koreans to protect the northeastern boarder -
Going to Help
the main concern for china was to either to counterattack the U.S or to halt at the 38th parallel. In the fall of 1950 or continue to advance into north Korea, China had no choice but to enter the war.
on October 8 that same year the first day the U.S. troops moved into Korea, Mao ordered that the northeast boarded defence army be turned to a Chinese fig leaf, a trick for china to go to war with the U.S without formally avowing it saying that “they had to move immediately into Korean territory t -
A Death in the Family
The choice Mao made killed his twenty year old son -
The Good, The Bad, And the Great Leap Forward
or a long time in the years of and to come of 1950 it was pretty good for the life of the Chinese every man, but Mao was impatient for faster progress.
‘The Great Leap Forward’ of 1959-1961 was Mao’s own way of pushing china around into a prosperous modern city overnight unfortunately Mao was not taught in economics or technology, and was convinced that the sheer will and population of China would make the ‘great leap forward’ possible -
The Problems of The Great Leap
he plan had numerous follies but the worst was in agriculture. intoxicated by his own visions and seduced by crackpot theorists Mao turned all family farms to huge community plantations and absurdly highly increases in grain production. the results were disastrous (also from1959-1961)as many as 30 million Chinese died as a direct or indirect result of The Great Leap policies -
Spread of the Children
in 1966 Mao struck back with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution an event so irrational and bizarre that recorded history shows nothing else quit like it. Proclaiming “rebellion is justified” Mao urged China’s youth to rise up against the party bureaucracy; against the “four olds” old habits, old customs, old culture, and old thinking. at Mao’s call, brigades of youthful Red Guards spreading little books of Mao’s thoughts spread out to “make revolution” in schools, factories, and offices -
The Death of the Great Leap Forward
Within months (1966 still) the country was in chaos. Red Guard groups splintered into rival mobs,each determined to outdo the other in rooting out enemies and tearing down everything that symbolized incorrect thoughts or China’s past. teachers, intellectuals, and anyone suspected of insufficient revolutionary purity were paraded before howling mobs and forced to confess their misdeeds. savage beatings were common. many victims died under torture. constant physical and mental harassment. -
The Restart of China
after all that he did china still managed to pull itself together in two years often at gun point, but China had to pay for Mao’s mad fantasies: the educational system shattered for years, economic losses were awful, most of China's artistic legacy was destroyed. society was fractured.they used People’s Liberation Army units,but a mood of fear and uncertainty persist through the remaining years of Mao’s rule -
The End of a Dynasty
n June 28 1976 the disastrous Tangshan earthquake struck north china. Nearly a quarter-million people were killed. in Chinese tradition, such disasters were thought to signal the end of a dynasty. the government scorned such superstitions but to many the superstition was confirmed when...(next point) -
Death
Mao died on the 9th of September
