1 Jan 1958 Jahr - Great Leap forward

Beschreibung:

- wanted to mobilize China's population for rapid development and move toward a more fully communist society with more social equality and collective living
- Called for simultaneous growth in agriculture and industry
- Organized nation into communes
- Backyard steel furnaces (Bad idea)

As a result:
- poor quality steel
- Crop failures- starvation
- Failure caused Mao to step down

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