Mao Rule

Question 1

First things Mao did after taking over

Answer 1

• Rid of remaining GMD elements (talk about killings in Shanghai, etc)
• Cooperative farming

Question 2

First five year plan

Answer 2

• Heavy industry
• Cooperative farming which slowly moved to collective and the communal
• Confiscation of peasant land to the collective
• Initial optimism turned into hate
• Agricultural problems faced due to peasants shifting from farming to industry

Question 3

Great Leap Forward

Answer 3

• Even more ambitious targets from FFYP
• At this stage there were large communal farms (tens of thousands)
• massive shift from agricultural to industry
• Mass mobilisation of Chinese peasants

Question 4

Why did it fail

Answer 4

• Natural disasters and droughts which caused Low food production
• Also due to shift from agriculture to industry
• Great sparrow campaign which caused locust infestation
• Crop transplanting to fool Mao and bring glory to their commune
• Thus Great Chinese Famine which claimed an estimated 20million lives