Chinese Cultural Revolution Timeline
Rise/Fall of Lin Biao
Great Leap Forward
Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee.
Top Party Leaders want to stop revolution
January, 1958
August, 1996
January and February, 1967
In April 1669, the ninth party congress met and declared Lin Biao as Mao Zedong's successor and the military had tightened the grip on the society but Biao had some opponents like Mao and Zhou Enlai but eventually Lin died in 1971 but Lin had convinced many chinese people they were being tricked by Mao.
Mao Zedong wanted to change China from an agrarian society into a modern communist society and the CPC wanted to make China able to compete with other industrialized nations within a little, 5 year plan so they created the Great Leap Forward
During August of 1996, the Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Comity was held and Chairman Mao formally launched the revolution.
This movement began to overthrow the party committees and replacing them with people who agree with Mao Zedong's ideas and many of China's leaders called for an end but the movement just escalated again
End of Revolution
Red Guards Relocated
Revolution Begins
What Mao Zedong did over next few months
May 16, 1966
August, 1967
In 1994, many of the radicals were rising in power and they didn't want to go back to Mao's old ideas but Mao tricked the people using propaganda posters, eventually Mao Zedong died and the cultural revolution ended.
Mao Zedong determined to rebuild the Communist party so he could try to take control and the military soldiers/officers took over factories, schools and they forced the Red Guards in Urban areas to more rural areas and it scattered the forces (Down to the Countryside movement)
The Chinese Cultural Revolution begins because the Chinese Communist Party wanted to bring back the communist revolution
After the Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee, Mao Zedong decided to cancel schools and he convinced the Red Guards to attack the old traditional values or the Four old's (Old customs, culture, habits, and ideas.)