1. 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 ( )
Private ownership abolished
Agriculture suffered “Giant Step Backward”
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ( )

2. Red Guards and “Anti-Revolutionary” Leaders

3. Cultural Revolution Poster

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

5. Tiananmen Square, June 4th 1989
Deng’s “Crackdown” on revolutionary movements