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Question	Answer
When was the revolution against the Qing dynasty?	1911
When was the Nanking decade?	1927-1937
When did the Japanese invade Manchuria?	1931
When was the Long March?	1934
When the the GMD and CCP form united front against Japanese?	1937
When was the Chinese Civil War?	1945-1949
When was the People's Republic of China established?	1st October 1949
When was the Agrarian Reform Law?	1950
When was the new constitution created?	1954
When was the 'Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries'?	March 1950-53
When was the Three Antis Campaign?	August 1951- July 1952
When was the Five Antis Campaign?	February-May 1952
When was the reunification campaigns in Xinjiang?	1949
When was the reunification campaigns in Tibet?	1950-51
When was the reunification campaigns in Gaungdong?	1949
When was the One Hundred Flowers Campaign?	1956-1957
When did Mao declare One Hundred Flowers Campaign?	2 May 1956
When was the turning point of Hundred Flowers campaign?	June 1957
When was the Korean War?	1950-1953
When was collectivisation?	1953-56
When were communes?	1958-62
When was the 4 pests campaign?	1958
When were backyard furnaces?	1958
When was the Great Famine?	1958-62
When was the First Five Year Plan?	1952-56
When was the Great Leap Forward?	1958-62
When was the Lushan conference?	July 1959
When were Liu Shaoqui and Deng Xiaoping put in charge?	1962
When was the Third Five Year Plan?	1962-65
When did Mao return from second visit to Moscow?	Nov 1957
When was the Cultural Revolution?	1966-1976
When was Han Rui Dismissed from the Office play?	1961
When was socialist education movement?	1963
When was Cultural Revolution group formed?	March 1966
When did Mao swim in Yangtze river?	July 1966
When was the first mass rally?	18th August 1966

Question	Answer
When was 4 olds campaign launched?	18th August 1966 (at mass rally)
When was the January Storm?	January 1967
When was the February Crackdown?	February 1967
When were revolutionary committees set up?	September 1967
When was the 'cleansing of the class ranks' campaign?	1968
When were Liu Shaoqui and Deng Xiaoping dismissed?	October 1966
When did Liu Shaoqui die?	12 November 1969
When was Lin Biao's fall?	12th September 1971
When was British embassy attacked in Beijing?	August 1967
When were PLA allowed to clamp down on Red Guards?	August 1967
When was the 'up to the mountains and down to the villages' campaign?	1968
When was Deng returned to power?	1973
When did Zhou Enlai die?	8th January 1976
When was anti-confucius campaign?	1973
When did Mao die?	9th September 1976
When were the Gang of Four arrested?	October 1976
When did Jiang Qing die?	1991
When was the Marriage Law?	1950
When were contraceptives made widely available?	1962
When was one-child policy introduced?	1979
When was pinyin introduced?	1955
When were mass uprisings in Tibet?	1959
When was Dalai Lama forced into exile?	1959
Name the members of the Gang of Four	Jiang Qing
	Zhang Chunqiao
	Yao Wenyuan
	Wang Hongwen
Name the 4 olds	Old customs
	Old ideas
	Old habits
	Old culture
Name the 4 modernisations	Agriculture
	Industry
	Science and technology
	National defence

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