Mao Tse-Tung

By: Alejandro Sánchez A.


Early Age


  • Dropped out to help in the farm.

  • Rural workers family.
  • Basic education focused in agricultural production.
  • Born in Hunan, China on 26th December 1893.

Progression

 
  • 1918: Graduated from Changsha's Education School.

  • 1911: Joined Nationalist Army for six months.

  • Worked in Peking University.

  • Developed his socialist spirit.

Socialist spirit


  • 1921: Participated in CPC foundation.

 
  • Farmer's misery -> Social change

  • 1931: First President Soviet Republic of China.

 
  • Conflicts with KMT + Chiang Kai -Shek.

 
  • 1934: "Long March".

 


Mao's Power


  • 1949 : CPC defeated KMT in the Civil War.

  • 1st October 1949: People's Republic of China  declaration.

 
  • Followed the Soviet Socialist Society Model.

  • 1957:  "Great Leap Forward".

 
  • 1959: Mao left China's presidency.

 

Mao's Power continues...


  • 1960: Rejected Peaceful Coexistance and Imperialism.

 

  • 1966: Red Book published.

 

  • 1966 - 1969:  Proletarian Cultural Revolution +                                                      Red Guard.

 

  • 9th September 1976: Mao died in Peking.

 


China after Mao



Sick man of Asia -> Second most important superpower worldwide


but...which was the PRICE?




-> Opposition tactically killed and                                               removed from his party.

-> Remained 27 years in Power.
...and most shocking...
-> Religion was transformed.



Mao Tse-Tung

By asanch41

Mao Tse-Tung

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