The Chinese Cultural Revolution
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- Mao leader status weakens
- Mao gets revenge
- The red Guards
- Mao leader status weakens after the failure of the Great Leap Forward in attempt to make china more communist. The millions of death and crop failure portrayed a bad image on Mao
- Lin joins the party
- Mao proceeds to attack the current leadership in order to gain his power back. He starts what's known as the Chinese cultural revolution.
- urban to rural
- Mao shut down the nation's schools and gathered young students to form a group called the red guards. They fully supported Mao and expanded through china's mainland. They attacked senior citizens and pushed for a communist country.
- Lin goes down
- Lin became an impactful force in the cultural revolution. Mao assigned him to send army troops to restore order after the death of president Liu Shoaqi. But Lin had other plans and did his own thing.
- Urban members of the red guards were forced into rural environments and the movement went downhill. The economy had gone down and dropped 12%.
- After Lin pushed to do his own thing, he instituted martial law with the excuse of border clashes with soviet troops. This made Mao push away from him with the help from Zhou Enlai. However, Lin died in a plane crash trying to escape the Soviet Union.
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