The great leap forward (Mao's second 5 year plan)

Question 1

Maos aims

Answer 1

He wanted to catch up to britains steel production in just 15 years.

Question 2

Backyard furnaces

Answer 2

Mao enocuraged peasents to ‘walk on two legs’, by working in the fields and then producing steel in backyard furnances.

Question 3

Backyard furnace results

Answer 3

The steel produced was of low often unusable quality

Question 4

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The four pests campaign motivation

Answer 4

Mao believed sparrows, flies, rats, mosquitoes eating crops was the reason for low agricultural output and so mass killing them would solve this

Question 5

What actually happened?

(4 pests campaign)

Answer 5

The killing disrupted the food chain and catepillar populations grew which ate the crops even more

Question 6

What did they have to do next

(4 pests campaign)

Answer 6

They were forced to import 250,000 sparrows from the USSR

Question 7

The consquences of the great leap forward

Answer 7

Mao took a passive role from 1962-67 with his policies being open critised. Between 1958-62 betweeen 15 million and 55 million people died.