1966-76+Political+Control+during+the+Cultural+Revolution


 * The August Rally 1966
 * demonstration by students at the Tiananmen Square
 * chanted "Chairman Mao, may you live for a thousand years!"
 * Enlisting the Young
 * encouraged the young to attack the members of the government that he himself didn't like
 * mao was able to
 * manipulate public opinion + behavior
 * The attack on 'four old'
 * old ideas/ old culture/ old customs/ old habits
 * encouraged the young to do the attack
 * "up to mountains and down to the villages' campaign 1967-72
 * the young's encouraged to live in the countryside in order to see what 80% of chinese lived like
 * "cleansing the class ranks'' campaign 1968-71
 * get rid of capitalism

The cultural revolution did not help mao in maintaing his power because the results were considerably negative. Few of the results were genocide, class war, cultural devastation, and economic chaos.