1. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution

2. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution Eva

3. Location From 1966 May to 1976 October China

5. Causes 1 The Great Leap Forward: When Mao first took power, he created The Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward was a five year social plan that was used to transform China’s economy from an agricultural one into a more modern and industrialized economy.

6. Causes 1 However, things went very wrong. Mao also sought to utilize China's vast amounts of cheap labor to increase grain and steel production. Peasants were ordered to make steel and using all of their resources to do so. The massive effort to produce for steal resulted in decreased crop production, which led to famine, and effectively no usable steel.

7. Causes 1 Due to the fact that Mao was trying to modernize China, he led China into a famine and an estimated death toll of 20 to 30 million, resulting in an ultimate failure.

9. Causes 2 The Great Chinese Famine: The next prominent cause of the Revolution was the famine, which lasted for three years from 1958 to 1961. “The Great Chinese Famine” occurred because of the Great Leap Forward and the lack of farms and food. The adverse weather patterns, including droughts and floods, also played a role in the famine.

10. Causes 2 The famine was a result of Mao’s plan to change from an agricultural economy to more modern and it was a failure which resulted in an estimated 20 to 30 million people. When crop production decreased the death rate increased.

13. Causes 3 The Four Clean-Ups Movement: Mao also had the idea of “Four Cleanups Movement”. The goal of this movement was to purify politics and the economy. Mao was not very fond of his long-time colleagues because they began to ignore him.

14. Causes 3 Mao also believed that his colleagues were becoming their own “privileged branch”, therefore he wanted to replace them with younger people. Mao stated, ‘You learn to swim by swimming, you learn to make revolution by making revolution.’

15. Causes 3 The goal of the movement was to cleanse the politics, economy, organization, and ideology of China, and it was to last until 1966. This movement led straight into the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

17. Ways to kill There are at least 3 million people died violent deaths. Nearly two million Chinese were killed and another 125 million were either persecuted or “struggled against”(subjected to “struggle sessions”)

18. Ways to kill: 5 types The widespread phenomenon of mass killings in the Cultural Revolution consisted of five types: 1) mass terror or mass dictatorship encouraged by the government – victims were humiliated and then killed by mobs or forced to commit suicide on streets or other public places; 2) direct killing of unarmed civilians by armed forces;

19. Way to kill: 5 types 3) pogroms against traditional “class enemies” by government-led perpetrators such as local security officers, militias and mass; 4) killings as part of political witch-hunts (a huge number of suspects of alleged conspiratorial groups were tortured to death during investigations);

20. Ways to kill: 5 types 5) summary execution of captives, that is, disarmed prisoners from factional armed conflicts. The most frequent forms of massacres were the first four types, which were all state-sponsored killings. The degree of brutality in the mass killings of the Cultural Revolution was very high. Usually, the victims perished only after first being humiliated, struggled and then imprisoned for a long period of time.

22. The time span From August — December 1966 To 1972-1977

23. It's a Civil war.

24. Timeline I.“The Red Terror” (August — December 1966) II.“All-round Civil War” in China (January – December 1967) III. Killing for and by the New Organs of Power (1968-1971) IV. Endless Killing (1972-1977)

26. Death 40 years after it ended, the total number of victims of the Cultural Revolution and especially the death toll of mass killings still remain a mystery both in China and overseas. The average death is nearly 2.95 million.

28. Testimonies A father being tortured. He later hung himself. They thought he was an American spy. Because he had been in America, he was accused of being an American spy. What was the evidence? He had a radio. They said it was a radio-transmitter and someone actually saw him sending information.The father died in 1968. It was suicide, but it's the truth?

30. Political and Social "The great cultural revolution" started in 1966. China's liberation was in 1949. In this 17 years, chinese economy increased. At first, "The great cultural revolution" original idea is good. But a bid for power makes everything goes wrong. China regress.

32. Me Genocide is cruel and bloody. Peace is precious. Everyone should resistance to the Holocaust. Vote seriously.

33. Sources http://www.dictionary.com https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html http://chinacr.weebly.com/causes-of-the-genocide.html http://www.massviolence.org/chronology-of-mass-killings-during-the- chinese-cultural http://hist204.blogspot.com/2012/09/cultural-revolution-in-china.html https://team8- 3.pbworks.com/w/page/20049705/China%20%28Mao%20Zedong%27s%20 Cultural%20Revolution%29 https://www.google.com/search?q=Mao+Zedong%E2%80%99s+Cultural+R evolution&biw=1301&bih=641&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUK Ewixn_y5vcjLAhVJ- GMKHUeAAeEQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=2qvwpzsiyYnZpM%3A

34. Thankyou –Eva