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summary
Mao wanted to forces an industrial revoultion by forcing farming to work as factory workers. this lead to a famine and 30 million dead.
sugestive question
What if the great leap was successful?
quote
"If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone."
Bill Gates
- Chinese schools do not talk about it
- was deserter
- China wanted to organized into 28,00 communes
- each communes would produce diffrent industrial goods
- made farmers into steel workers
- created a Famine
- 30 million dead
- wanted to create big industrial projects
- biggest failure of 20th century
summary
Mao wanted to forces an industrial revoultion by forcing farming to work as factory workers. this lead to a famine and 30 million dead.
sugestive question
What if the great leap was successful?
quote
"If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone."
Bill Gates
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