COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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intellectuals
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peasants
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party leaders
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foreign capitalists
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1966, Mao broke with Liu Shaoqi (right), then serving as President of China, over the work-teams issue. Mao’s polemic Bombard the Headquarters was widely recognized as targeting Liu, the purported “bourgeois headquarters” of the party.
Detailed explanation-2: -The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the 18 August rally, the Cultural Revolution Group directed the Red Guards to attack the ‘Four Olds’ of Chinese society (i.e., old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas). For the rest of the year, Red Guards marched across China in a campaign to eradicate the ‘Four Olds’.
Detailed explanation-4: -He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University as a librarian and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927.