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#1) “The Great Leap Forward”
#2) “The Cultural Revolution”
#3) “The United States Gets Involved”
#4) “Man on Moon”
#5) “Berlin Wall Goes Up”
- In 1966 Mao urges china’s young people to ‘learn revolution by making revolution.’
- In 1960 and 1962, the negative effects of the Great Leap Forward were studied by the CPC, and Mao was criticized in the party conferences. Moderate Party members like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping rose to power
- Mao then lead him to initiate the cultural revolution in 1966
- Communist dreams led to mass death
- One of the most influential periods of Chinese history
- Mao passed in 1976
- After his death central leaders disagreed over rural policies
#2) “The Cultural Revolution”
- By 1968 Mao admitted that cultural revolutions had to stop and army was ordered to put down the red guards
- The cultural revolutions goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
- The life of mind was considered useless and dangerous so the red guards shut down colleges and schools
- Intellectuals had to purify themselves by doing hard labor in remote villages
- Thousands were executed or imprisoned
- Chaos threatened farm production and closed down factories
- Zhao Enlai, Chinese communist party founder began to restore order
#3) “The United States Gets Involved”
- In August 1964, president Lyndon Johnson told congress that north Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked two us destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
- By late 1965 more then 185,000 U.S. soldiers were in combat on Vietnamese soil
- By 1968 more than half a million U.S. soldiers were in combat there
- During the late 1960s the war grew increasingly unpopular in the United States
- President Richard Nixon began withdrawing us troops from Vietnam in 1969
#4) “Man on Moon”
- July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon
- This occurred four days after launch from Cape Canaveral
- As he put his left foot down Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
- His first few minutes on the moon were for picture taking
- He got many soil samples while he could in case the mission had to be shortly aborted
- President Kennedy's speech to Congress, on May 25, 1961 expressed that the United States was falling behind the Soviet Union in technology and prestige
- On July 16, 1969 the Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center
#5) “Berlin Wall Goes Up”
- August 13th , 1961 Germans shut off the escape route for thousands of refuges from the East
- Also known as Berliner Mauer
- The first two versions of the wall were replaced by the third version in 1965
- August 31st of 1960 east Germans closed the west Berlin border to check flow of refuges
- August 13th of 1961 the Berlin wall was erected
- The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany
- Its destruction was celebrated around the world