Topic+7B+RAFT+18B+Describe+the+political+and+economic+upheavals+in+China+after+the+Chinese+Revolution.++B.++the+Great+Leap+Forward+and+its+consequences+(famine)

Topic 7B RAFT 18B Describe the political and economic upheavals in China after the Chinese Revolution. B. the Great Leap Forward and its consequences (famine):

was a violent mass movement that resulted in over 20 million deaths, the movement starting in 1958 and ended around the early 1960s.

The Great Leap Forward as an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 that made a communist society through the process of agriculturalization.

Mao Zedong wanted to transform China from an agrarian country to a more modern society based on the Theory of Productive Forces.

Mao wanted to change china completely. he killed and tortured people that did not obey him but many others loved him.  The revolution helped to determine who would control the Chinese government and it resolved the political crisis because there was a food shortage and the food was expensive at high prices. Mao Zedong was a communist leader at the time of the major food shortage.

Mao Zedong was a political leader that believed in violence unlike Gandhi who believes in non-violence.

Mao Zedong wanted to make China an agrarian country and the revolution helped see who would be able to run China.

The Great Leap Forward was a movement to transform China into a communist society through the processes of collectivization, industrialization, and agriculturalist, however this plan failed ending in a famine that killed 20 million people.

Mao Zedong won support from the people but he made the great leap forward to quickly and it killed millions because of over used land which resulted in famine.

Mao led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages.

The Great Leap forward was an economic plan used by Mao to modernize China. Mao attempted to accomplish this by making improvements in agriculture and industrialization, as well as forming collective farming. However it was a catastrophe, ending in famine and over 20 million deaths.

Mao's plan to modernization. he wanted to transform China. He did targeted the youth to changed china.

Mao urged people to make a superhuman effort in farm and industrial output to grow.

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use China's population to rapidly transform the country into a communist society through the process of agriculturalist, industrialization, and collectivization.

Zedong is responsible for the huge famine as Mao tried to put his new unscientific and unproven methods of growing crops which ended in a huge famine causing tens of millions to die in the worst famine in world history.

The Great Leap Forward was begun in 1957 by Chairman Mao Zedong to bring the nation quickly into the forefront of economic development. Mao wanted China to become a leading industrial power, and to accomplish his goals he and his colleagues pushed for the construction of steel plants across the country.

Mao Zedong wanted to modernize China (The Great Leap Forward). He looked at Russia as a role model. It didn't work in the end, and many people died.

The Great Leap Forward was launched by the Chinese Communist Party in 1958.

Mao stepped down as State Chairman of the PRC in 1959, predicting he would take most of the blame for the failure of the Great Leap Forward.

The Great Leap Forward was the collectivization of farms and was unsuccessful because people were not motivated, causing mass famine.

The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao's attempt to modernise China's economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America.