Great Leap Forward

  • 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
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