The Great Leap Forward-15

Question 1

What did Mao witness which made him believe that it was possible to accomplish any task whatsoever?

Answer 1

Tremendous energy of the masses.

Question 2

What did Mao aim to do?

Answer 2

Make China into one of the world’s leading industrial nations at same time as improving her agriculture. Hence the second five year plan

Question 3

Mao intended that the Chinese economy would overtake that of ______ within fifteen years and that of America in twenty to thirty years. He called the plan the _____________.

Answer 3

Britain

Great Leap Forward

Question 4

What was the difference between the 1st 5 year plan?

Answer 4

It aimed to develop agriculture as well as industry, both heavy and light.

Question 5

The key to achieving this was to reorganize Chinese into ______.

Answer 5

Communes

Question 6

What were communes?

Answer 6

Communes were groups of villages which varied in size from a few square kilometers to that of a British county.

Question 7

The average commune contained about _______ families who gave up their______their ______ and their _______ to common ownership by all the members of the commune.

Answer 7

5000
Land
Equipment
Animals

Question 8

What was the purposes of communes?

Answer 8

Release the energy of masses by making sure that time and effort were not wasted.

Question 9

What was the advantage of People’s Communes? The fact that they combine……(5)

Answer 9

• industry
• agriculture
• commerce
• education
• military affairs

Question 10

What did the communes do so people would not become distracted?

Answer 10

Built 4 Million communal eating halls so that the number of people spent time cooking was reduced. Several million children were placed into nurseries and schools and elderly in houses of happiness.

Question 11

First a commune was a unit of ______________with a committee made of ______,party members and soldiers running schools,clinics and other public services.

Answer 11

Local Government

Peasants

Question 12

Second a commune was a unit of a work of _______________, with the work of the commune divided among work teams of a dozen families and grouped into brigades Of work teams.

Answer 12

Work organization

Question 13

Thirdly the commune was a unit of the ____________ with a Party committee making sure that the commune always followed Party decisions.

Answer 13

Communist party

Question 14

True or False 
700 Million (90% Of the population) had been places in 26, 578 communes in all parts of the country

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What encouraged people to work long hours?

Answer 15

Posters, slogans, newspaper article

Question 16

What played while the people worked?

Answer 16

Loudspeakers played revolutionary music and stirring speeches

Question 17

Small commune factories were set up to make all kinds of ________ products such as cement,ball bearings and chemical fertilizers .

Answer 17

Industrial

Question 18

What was particular emphasis placed on?

Answer 18

The making of steel,

Question 19

What was the backyard steel Campaign?

Answer 19

When 600,000 backyard steel furnaces were set up in towns and villages all over China.
These furnaces had produced 11 Million tonnes of Steel.

Question 20

True or false
Industrial products showed a rise and in agriculture there were record harvests of cotton and grain. It seemed that Mao was right when he said it was really possible to complete anything.

Answer 20

True