Mao Tse-Tung Biography and Timeline — Page 5

Negotiations

The armistice negotiations reach an agreement over the "demarcation line"

Role range: 1950-1953 – 1948-1976

Persecution

The communists conduct mass trials against "counterrevolutionaries"

Role range: 1948-1976

China accuses the USA of using germ warfare in Manchurian Korea

China accuses the USA of using germ warfare in Manchurian Korea

Role range: 1950-1953 – 1948-1976

Persecution

Mao orders the persecution of landlords which causes the deaths of about one million people

Role range: 1948-1976

Economy of China

The communist party launches the first five-year plan with the aims of industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, and political centralization

Role range: 1948-1976

Five Year Plan

The communist party launches the first five-year plan with the aims of industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, and political centralization

Role range: 1948-1976

Partition

Korea is permanently partitioned across the DMV (55,000 USA soldiers, one million south Koreans, one million Chinese soldiers, two million North Koreans have died

Role range: 1948-1976

Rule of Korea

Korea is permanently partitioned across the DMV (55,000 USA soldiers, one million south Koreans, one million Chinese soldiers, two million North Koreans have died

Role range: 1948-1976

Great Leap Forward

The Greatt Leap Forward, an attempt to economically regenerate China

Role range: 1948-1976

Mutual Defence Treaty

A mutual defense Treaty between the USA and Taiwan is agreed

Role range: 1948-1976

Rule of Taiwan

A mutual defense Treaty between the USA and Taiwan is agreed

Role range: 1948-1976

Capture of Port Arthur

Russia withdraws from Port Arthur

Hundred Schools

Failed attempt to introduce freedom for philosophical & political diversity in China

Role range: 1948-1976

Co-operatives

During the "high tide of socialism" the communes are merged into co-operatives

Role range: 1948-1976

Hundred Flowers

Founds the Hundred Flowers Movement

Role range: 1948-1976

Ideoligical differences begin to appear between China & Russia

Ideoligical differences begin to appear between China & Russia

Role range: 1948-1976

Economy of China

Mao launches the "Great Leap Forward" (mass mobilization and collectivization of the farms to increase crop production and steel production

Role range: 1948-1976

Great Leap Forward

A call to increase production of steel, electricity & coal by as much as a 3rd each yr

Role range: 1948-1976

Peoples Communes

The co-operatives are merged into larger communes during the "great leap forward"

Role range: 1948-1976

Suppression of Lhasa Uprising

Chinese forces suppress the Lhasa uprising as the Dalai Lama escapes toward India.

Role range: 1948-1976

Treaty of Sino-Burmese

A Sino-Burmese Treaty is signed

Role range: 1948-1976

Nuclear Power

Communist China launches its first ballistic missile

Role range: 1948-1976

Border Settlement

Border friction takes place with Nepal

Role range: 1948-1976

Launches a newspaper campaign against Yugoslavia & Khrushcevs policy there

Launches a newspaper campaign against Yugoslavia & Khrushcevs policy there

Role range: 1948-1976

Withdrawal Negotiations

All Soviet Advisers are withdrawn from China

Role range: 1948-1976

China sends aid to Albania

China sends aid to Albania

Role range: 1948-1976

Economy of China

Communes are reorganised into "production brigades" after poor harvests in 1959-61

Role range: 1948-1976

Production Brigades

Communes are reorganised into "production brigades" after poor harvests in 1959-61

Role range: 1948-1976

Declaration of War

20th October-21st November, a border war between India & China

Role range: 1962-1962 – 1948-1976

Great Leap Forward

Between 16 million and 30 million people starve to death because of the 1959-62 famine caused by the "great leap forward" (the population of Communist China declined by 4.5%)

Role range: 1948-1976

Mao breaks with the Soviet Union

Mao breaks with the Soviet Union

Role range: 1948-1976

Alliance Mao Tse-Tung and North Vietnamese aggression

China supports North Vietnamese aggression

Role range: 1960-1975 – 1948-1976

Nuclear Power

China successfully tests its own atomic bomb, becomes the world's 5th nuclear power

Role range: 1948-1976

Nuclear Power

Communist China becomes the fifth nuclear power

Role range: 1948-1976

Red Guard

Orders the formation of a "Red Guard" of students to attack opposing party members

Role range: 1948-1976

Red Guard

Orders the formation of a "Red Guard" of students to attack opposing party members

Nuclear Power

China tests its first nuclear missile

Coup

Factional rivalry results in overthrow of the Communist Party hierarchy

Role range: 1948-1976

Capture of Shanghai

The Red Guard captures Shanghai & uses the Paris commune of 1871 as a model

Siege of Shanghai

The Red Guard captures Shanghai & uses the Paris commune of 1871 as a model