Three Bitter Years-16 Flashcards
Everywhere, party workers urged people to produce more and to produce it faster. As a result old and overworked machines fell apart under _______. Factory workers fell asleep at their benches and suffered _______ through carelessness brought on by exhaustion.
Strain
Accidents
How did the backyard steel Campaign fail?
3 Million of the 11 Million tonnes Of steel made in backyard furnaces were too impure for industrial use and had to be thrown away as scrap.
So many furnaces were built that eventually ____ in ____ people was employed in making steel.
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What effects did the backyard campaign have on China? (3)
- Took people away from their fields reducing the amount of food that could be grown
- railway locomotives could not run because of shortage of coal
- Not enough railway trains to take steel where it was needed
What two things prevented the harvest in 1958 from being a good one?
- So many peasants were working in industry and there were too few people to harvest the crops properly.
- Party officials lied and said that the grain harvest was a record and communal eating halls started giving the peasants very generous meals. Using up valuable food stocks
In 1959 the weather was very ____. In some parts there was drought. The result was a harvest of only 170 Million tonnes. People were soon let to ______.
Bad
Starve
In 1960 the weather was worse. The bad weather combined with chaos caused by _____________ . The harvest reduced to 144 Million tonnes. This led to to a major _______ killing around ______ Million people.
The Great Leap Forward
Famine
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How many people died of starvation?
20 Million
What was the rationing system?
Where people were given a maximum 125 grams of grains a day, but the death still rose.
What was the cause of Three Bitter Years?
Mao Zedong’s,Great Leap Forward
Who blamed Mao and what did they want him to do?
Party leaders and demanded resignation
What was Mao forced to do?
Resign and hand over post of Head Of State to Liu Shaoqi.
What didn’t Mao have control Of after resignation?
Practical work of governing China and the economy of China.
The moderates were said to have introduced more realistic economic policies, what were they?
- Abandon the Great Leap Forward
- Reduce the size of communes to make them more manageable
- Peasants sent back to their fields
- Peasants were allowed their own private plots again
What was the Cultural Revolution?
The campaign in which he aimed to get rid of the moderates.
