Mao's China
People's Republic of China formed
1949
CCP
Tiananmen square
Land reform laws
1946
Anti campaigns
Land taken from the land lords and given back to peasants
Speak bitterness campaigns
Publicly humiliate the land lords
Punish and wipe out the land lords as a class
2-3 million people killed
Red guard
1953 - all land was put in collective farms
Slow transition
caused famine
50 million people died
Allowed Mao to have monopoly over supplies
CCP starting to take control
Showing signs of communism
Hundred flowers campaign
First five year plan
Second five year plan
Structure of the government
Mao was head
Great leap forward
Cultural revolution