- Started by Mao.
Located in China.
- Mao considered China to be capable of anything.
- It was a plan to develop industry and agriculture.
- Mao announced a 5 year plan for 1958 through 1963.
- Mao believed that agriculture could not grow without the growth of industry and the other way around.
- China was turned into a series of communes.
- Each commune had about 5000 families.
- Everyone shared ownership of tools and animals.
- In 1959 everything became inefficient and everything went wrong
http://www.gather.com/