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Changes in the political system

The PLA (actions taken or changes to the armed forces).

Terror and Repression (including purges of the Party)

Agricultural Policy

Industrial Policy

Social Policy (Gender, health care, education, culture)

Result for Mao’s control of China?

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46-49 civil war

1949

-Mao comes to power.

-New structure of government (3 components)

Red Army re-christened People’s Liberation Army.

People’s Republic of China formed.

1950

-Unification campaigns to take hold of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Guangdong

-Laogai camps started to appear

- Suppression of Counter-revolutionaries campaign

-Land reform movement began.
-Start of campaign against religion.

-New marriage law

-Resist America & Aid Korea campaign begins

Korean war.

1951

First APC (agricultural producers’ co-operatives) established.

-Land reform movement ended
-“three anti-movement”

-Begin cautiously to promote collectivisation

1952

All Parties except the CCP had been destroyed

-“five-anti movement”

-Land reform completed

- Mao begins to work on health; posters etc.

Both “antis” tightened his grasp on China

1953

First Five Year Plan

End of Korean war

1954

Gao Gang and Rao Rashi

1955

Anti-Hu Feng campaign (to purge intellectuals)

-Reform of the Mandarin language

-Stop, Contract, Develop campaign

1956

Krushchev’s secret speech

1957

Hundred Flowers Campaign & almost all intellectuals eradicated

End of First Five Year Plan

1958

-Formal start of the Great Leap Forward (January)
-Sputnik commune created

-Four Noes campaign

Formal start of the Great Leap Forward (January)

1959

Lushan conference.

Purge of Peng Dehuai

Tibetan rising. Dalai Lama exiled.

1960

End of the Great Leap Forward.

End of the Great Leap Forward.

Mao was pushed to the back…