Mao's China
1949–1976 · Event
Mao Zedong's rule of the People's Republic of China, from its 1949 founding through the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution to his death in 1976.
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- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
Around 1949
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)