The Great Leap Forward, 1956
- Mao's new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build dams and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30 000 000 deaths)
Interesting Fact
The death toll amassed by Mao and his regime range from forty- to seventy-million, eclipsing the Jewish victims of Hitler’s Holocaust by a factor of six to eleven times.
Quote
"it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."
-Mao
-Mao
Subjunctive Question
How would China be different today if the great leap forward never happened?
Summary
The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change China's economy from agarian to a modern, industrialized society in jut five years. He organized the poplation of China into 28 000 communes, and each was responsible for something building something different. This event led to the dath of 30 000 000 people. The main cause of death was famine.