The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution Mao’s China The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward Led by Mao, the Great Leap Forward was an effort to increase industrial and farming output by A LOT. Superhuman efforts Placed citizens in communes
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward
Communes Communes, community, communism Get the idea? These words have the same “root”
The Great Leap Forward Several villages brought together on thousands of acres of land Up to 25,000 people HUGE FAILURE No pay, no incentive to produce more FAMINE55 million starved to death in about two years (1959- 1961) China slowly recovered from Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution Goal=To purge China of the bourgeois tendencies Bourgeois-(Bourg-wa)- Middle Class Urged the young to experience revolution like he had
Cultural Revolution Red Guards-bands of teenagers who waved copies of “Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung” People accused were beaten and often killed Skilled workers forced to join manual labor on farms and labor camps To restore order, Mao ordered the army to come in