Mao’s China Massive, pervasive policies of economic and cultural engineering First Five-Year Plan (1955) Infrastructure and heavy industry, not consumer goods Redistributed land from rich to poor, collectivized agriculture Boosted gender equality Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) Private ownership abolished Agriculture suffered “Giant Step Backward” Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

Red Guards and “Anti-Revolutionary” Leaders http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1924825_1951838,00.html

Cultural Revolution Poster http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95501455/

Deng’s Revolution Deng Xiaoping takes power in 1981 after Mao’s death Opened China to international affairs, finances, and values

Tiananmen Square, June 4th 1989 Deng’s “Crackdown” on revolutionary movements http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27404764