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

Question 1

Backyard furnaces

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Backyard furnace results

Answer 2

The steel produced was of low often unusable quality

Question 3

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The four pests campaign motivation

Answer 3

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

Question 4

4 pests campaign impact

(4 pests campaign)

Answer 4

sparrowcide disrupted the food chain
* catepillar populations grew which ate the crops even more
* ccp forced to import 250,000 sparrows from the USSR

Question 5

The consquences of the great leap forward

Answer 5

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.