Great Leap Forward

While the Great Leap Forward was Supposed to last from..

• 1868 to 1956

• 1990 to 2001

• 1958 to 1968

• 1958 to 1958

Who led the Communist Party

• Mao Zedong

• Yao Ming

• Jeremy Lin

• Chiang Kai-shek

When did the Great Leap End?

• 1970

• 1965

• 1863

• 1960

People lived in communes near agriculture and industry.

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

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

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

Low quality and useless goods were produced

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

Farmland was neglected and food shortages were present.

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

Famine led to 55 million Chinese starving to death.

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

“Backyard” industries produced steel and other products.

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Both

This program was designed to make farming more productive in China by creating collective farms but was a huge failure.

• Great Leap Forward

• Chinese Resolution

• Cultural Revolution

• Green New Deal