What did the Agrarian Reform Law (1950) do?

Took land from landlords and gave it to peasants

What was the Great Leap Forward?

A plan to industrialise fast, with communes and backyard furnaces

Mao turned on the critics in the Anti-Rightist campaign

Young people who attacked Mao's enemies in the Cultural Revolution

Old customs, culture, habits and ideas

Mao Zedong's Communists won the Civil War against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, who fled to Taiwan. Mao proclaimed the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
The Agrarian Reform Law (1950) took land from landlords and gave it to peasants; many landlords were killed. The Three-Antis and Five-Antis campaigns (1951–52) targeted corruption and business owners.

The First Five-Year Plan (1953–57), with Soviet help, built heavy industry.
The Great Leap Forward (1958–62) forced peasants into communes and set up backyard furnaces to make steel. Farming collapsed, and tens of millions died in the famine that followed. Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping later led a recovery.

In the Hundred Flowers campaign (1956–57), Mao invited criticism, then turned on the critics in the Anti-Rightist campaign (1957).

Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to regain power and purge enemies. Red Guards, carrying the Little Red Book, attacked the 'Four Olds' and anyone seen as an enemy.
Millions of young people were sent to the countryside (from 1968). Lin Biao died in 1971, and the Gang of Four rose. Mao died in September 1976.

People's Republic of China: The communist state proclaimed by Mao in 1949.
Commune: A large collective farm and community in the Great Leap Forward.
Great Leap Forward: Mao's 1958–62 plan to industrialise fast, which caused famine.
Hundred Flowers: The 1956–57 campaign inviting criticism.
Cultural Revolution: Mao's 1966–76 campaign to purge enemies and old culture.
Red Guards: Young people who attacked Mao's enemies.
Four Olds: Old customs, culture, habits and ideas.
Gang of Four: Radical leaders, including Mao's wife, Jiang Qing.

Who did Mao defeat in the Chinese Civil War?: Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists: The Nationalists fled to Taiwan.
When was the People's Republic of China proclaimed?: 1 October 1949: Mao proclaimed it in Beijing.
What did the Agrarian Reform Law (1950) do?: Took land from landlords and gave it to peasants: Many landlords were killed.
What was the Great Leap Forward?: A plan to industrialise fast, with communes and backyard furnaces: It caused a terrible famine.
What happened after the Hundred Flowers campaign?: Mao turned on the critics in the Anti-Rightist campaign: Critics were sent to labour camps.
Who were the Red Guards?: Young people who attacked Mao's enemies in the Cultural Revolution: They carried the Little Red Book.
What were the 'Four Olds'?: Old customs, culture, habits and ideas: Red Guards attacked them.
Who led China's recovery after the Great Leap Forward?: Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping: Mao later attacked them in the Cultural Revolution.