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AS Level Edexcel History: Paper 1 Evidence
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- 1Mao's attitude towards women- Rebelled against his own arranged marriage
- Heard of incident in which bride cuts her throat in front of wedding guests in protest at her arranged marriage
- Very few significant government figures were women
- 'Women hold up half the sky' - 2Land reform impacts on women- Women gain property rights
- 3Communist Party mantra on women"Men and women are equal; everyone is worth his (or her) salt."
- 4Communist propaganda about women- Featured strong, working women serving the nation
- 5Impacts of cultural revolution on family- Breaks down family relationships for young people
- Respect for elders destroyed
- Surrogate family, the CCP, cuts the Red Guards off with the 'up to the mountains, down to the villages' campaign - 6New Democratic Youth League members by 19539 million
- 7Communist Youth League replaced NDYL1957
- 8Women's Federation numbers- 7.6 million members
- 9Life expectancy across period
- 10Mao's initial aims after taking power- consolidate party rule
- stabilise the economy - 11number of Households in APCs from 1955-195617 million to 75 million
- up to 63% of population - 12Mao quote about use of force'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'
- 13Struggle meetingsUsed in crackdowns such as Hundred Flowers, Land reform, Cultural Revolution
- forced people to confess infront of audience - 14PLA numbers in 19505 million (strong)
- 15Number of Chinese soldiers committed to Korean War2.3 million
(66%) - 16Mao retreats from limelight1962
Deng Xiaoping & Liu Shaoqi step in to take control, embrace some capitalism 'It does not matter what colour the cat is, as long as it catches mice' - 17Mao publicly returns1966 -
swims Yangtze river at age 73 - 18Cult of Mao1960s, while Mao absent
- 19Mao's Little Red Book1964
- given to PLA, later becomes secular bible used to settle disputes, 350 million copies distrubuted - 20Diary of Lei Feng1963
- diary of PLA truck driver describing his patriotic exploits, eventually killed by lorry
- probably fictional - 21Wu Han affair- 1961-65 play by Wu Han featuring brave official standing up to cruel emperor
- thought to be allegory of Peng Duhai's criticism of Mao during Great Leap Forward
- Lin Biao used this as excuse to crack down on suspected critics of Mao - 22'January revolution'1967
- militant urban workers overthrow local CCP officials and set-up peoples' commune
- taking cultural revolution too far - 23Local CCP response to threat of purging during CR- set up revolutionary committees with other cities, comprising red guards, PLA members, CCP officials
- 249th Party Congress1969
- Cultural revolution declared over and a great success
- Liu Shaoqi official removed - 25PLA dominance following CR- 86% of provincial 1st secretaries
- 66% of 'contrast???'
- 50% of politburo
- 45% of central comittee - 26Political consequences of CRMao removed many opponents - perhaps this was the intention, perhaps just bonus, and returned to limelight
- many old leaders replaced - 27Decrease in PLA numbers 1950-571950 - 5 million
1953 - 3.5 million
1957 - 2.5 million - 28yellow river water level down1950s
2/3rds
66% of land affected
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