The Cultural Revolution (In Our Time)
1966 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1966
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- The Troubles (1968)
- The Beatles (1960)