Layeth Khazendar
Describe China’s Great Leap forward and Cultural Revolution:
Mao’s China:
- Mao envisioned his great leap forward as a way to overtake the industrial production of more developed nations
- Wanted to collectivize all land and manage all business
- Private ownership was abolished
- Farming and industry became largely rural and communal
- The great leap forward failed
- Had a huge effect to the agricultural production in China
- Lead to one of the deadliest famines in history
- Mao blamed his failures to the bad harvests and accused these counterrevolutionaries of eating too much grain
- Ordered the peasants to kill the feathered menaces
- Caused twenty million Chinese deaths
Cultural Revolution:
- Mao tried again to mobilize the Chinese and wanted to spark a revolution
- Subjected millions of people to humiliation, persecution, and death
- The elites constituted the major targets of the red guards, youthful zealots were empowered to cleanse Chinese society of opponents to
Mao’s rule
- Cost China years of stable development and messed up its educational system
- Mao left his heir to heal the nation after his destruction
Describe China’s Great Leap forward and Cultural Revolution:
Mao’s China:
- Mao envisioned his great leap forward as a way to overtake the industrial production of more developed nations
- Wanted to collectivize all land and manage all business
- Private ownership was abolished
- Farming and industry became largely rural and communal
- The great leap forward failed
- Had a huge effect to the agricultural production in China
- Lead to one of the deadliest famines in history
- Mao blamed his failures to the bad harvests and accused these counterrevolutionaries of eating too much grain
- Ordered the peasants to kill the feathered menaces
- Caused twenty million Chinese deaths
Cultural Revolution:
- Mao tried again to mobilize the Chinese and wanted to spark a revolution
- Subjected millions of people to humiliation, persecution, and death
- The elites constituted the major targets of the red guards, youthful zealots were empowered to cleanse Chinese society of opponents to
Mao’s rule
- Cost China years of stable development and messed up its educational system
- Mao left his heir to heal the nation after his destruction