Mao’s ChinaMao’s ChinaThe Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Cultural RevolutionThe Cultural Revolution

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

• Led by Mao, the Great Led by Mao, the Great Leap Forward was an Leap Forward was an effort to increase effort to increase industrial and farming industrial and farming output by A LOT. output by A LOT.

• Superhuman efforts Superhuman efforts

• Placed citizens in Placed citizens in communes communes

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

CommunesCommunes

• Communes, community, communism Communes, community, communism

• Get the idea? Get the idea?

• These words have the same “root” These words have the same “root”

The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward

• Several villages brought Several villages brought together on thousands of together on thousands of acres of landacres of land

• Up to 25,000 people Up to 25,000 people

• HUGE FAILURE HUGE FAILURE

• No pay, no incentive to No pay, no incentive to produce more produce more

• FAMINEFAMINE55 million starved 55 million starved to death in about two years to death in about two years (1959-1961)(1959-1961)

• China slowly recovered from China slowly recovered from Great Leap Forward Great Leap Forward

Cultural RevolutionCultural Revolution

Cultural RevolutionCultural Revolution

• Goal=To purge China of Goal=To purge China of the bourgeois the bourgeois tendencies tendencies

• Bourgeois-(Bourg-wa)-Bourgeois-(Bourg-wa)-Middle ClassMiddle Class

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• Urged the young to Urged the young to experience revolution experience revolution like he had like he had

Cultural RevolutionCultural Revolution

• Red Guards-bands of Red Guards-bands of teenagers who waved teenagers who waved copies of “Quotations copies of “Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung”Tung”

• People accused were People accused were beaten and often killed beaten and often killed

• Skilled workers forced to Skilled workers forced to join manual labor on join manual labor on farms and labor camps farms and labor camps

• To restore order, Mao To restore order, Mao ordered the army to come ordered the army to come in in