... in response to new directions by other persons in leadership in China that Mao thought focused too much on technical expertise and not on ideological purity.
Mao Zedong began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (its official name) in 1966. A big part of the program was the closing of China's schools, because Mao saw the majority of educators as bourgeois types who were failing to support the communist revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an insistence on loyalty to communist party ideology.
The Red Guard was formed, which was made up of high school and college students (no longer attending school, since schools were shut down). These radicalized students became militants for Mao over against those whom he considered not revolutionary enough. The Red Guard destroyed historical artifacts and writings of the of China's former culture. They also attacked persons who were seen to be resisting Chairman Mao's permanent revolution.
In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the cultural revolution in China in response to the new social contradictions that China underwent after the Revolution of 1949.
Explanation:
The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a period of social and political instability, initiated by the mass mobilization instigated by Mao Tse-tung in 1966. The decade was marked by complete chaos in society and economy, with closed schools and universities, murders in the light of day, political quarrels and purges. To keep the communist revolution in the right direction and to remove from the scene who the leader saw as revisionists in the party and the government in mid-1966, Mao and his group began to foster among students the need to defend the revolution; radicalism has expanded
The Chinese Cultural Revolution arose as a result of the various social contradictions that China underwent after the Revolution of 1949. The failure of the Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1962 and the differences between the Russians and Chinese expressed in the Sino-Soviet conflict, affected the economic reorientation of the country, giving priority to agricultural production and the production of consumer goods.
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
