Early Life and Step Into Power
-Born to peasant farmers in a time in which China was suffering from poverty, government corruption & meddling international influences
-Left home to attend school
-Joined the revolutionary army in his late teens
-Graduated from a teacher's training school
-Married Yang Kaihui
1927 : Led a group of rebel peasants to the Jiangxi Province and built a guerilla army (Red Army) , gaining peasant support by redistributing land
1934 : Communists were forced to flee after the Nationalists released their best army
Long March : 6,000 mile fighting retreat from Jiangxi to Shaanxi Province
1937 : Japan invaded China ; the Nationalists and Red Army allied themselves to defend their country, but engaged in civil war again a year after the Japanese were defeated
1949 : Communists chased the Nationalists out into Taiwan, and Mao becomes Chairman
-Left home to attend school
-Joined the revolutionary army in his late teens
-Graduated from a teacher's training school
-Married Yang Kaihui
1927 : Led a group of rebel peasants to the Jiangxi Province and built a guerilla army (Red Army) , gaining peasant support by redistributing land
1934 : Communists were forced to flee after the Nationalists released their best army
Long March : 6,000 mile fighting retreat from Jiangxi to Shaanxi Province
1937 : Japan invaded China ; the Nationalists and Red Army allied themselves to defend their country, but engaged in civil war again a year after the Japanese were defeated
1949 : Communists chased the Nationalists out into Taiwan, and Mao becomes Chairman