The Cultural Revolution was also known as the Great Proletarian Cultural. It began in 1966 and ended in 1976. It's main purpose to was to purge China nonrevolutionary tendencies. Many people (mostly teenagers) formed Red Guards. The Red Guards beat and even killed people that they considered counterrevolutionaries. Because of the revolution, China was forced to close schools and factories, were cut off from normal life, and were even threatened with war.
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