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