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Mao’s China

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.

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Mao’s China

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  1. Mao’s China The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution

  2. The Great Leap Forward

  3. The Great Leap Forward

  4. The Great Leap Forward

  5. The Great Leap Forward

  6. 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

  7. The Great Leap Forward

  8. The Great Leap Forward

  9. Communes • Communes, community, communism • Get the idea? • These words have the same “root”

  10. 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 • FAMINE55 million starved to death in about two years (1959-1961) • China slowly recovered from Great Leap Forward

  11. Cultural Revolution

  12. Cultural Revolution • Goal=To purge China of the bourgeois tendencies • Bourgeois-(Bourg-wa)-Middle Class • Urged the young to experience revolution like he had

  13. 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

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