1. The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution
Mao’s China
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution

2. The Great Leap Forward

3. The Great Leap Forward

4. The Great Leap Forward

5. The Great Leap Forward

6. The Great Leap Forward
Led by Mao, the Great Leap Forward was an effort to increase industrial and farming output by A LOT.
Superhuman efforts
Placed citizens in communes

7. The Great Leap Forward

8. The Great Leap Forward

9. Communes Communes, community, communism Get the idea?
These words have the same “root”

10. The Great Leap Forward
Several villages brought together on thousands of acres of land
Up to 25,000 people
HUGE FAILURE
No pay, no incentive to produce more
FAMINE55 million starved to death in about two years ( )
China slowly recovered from Great Leap Forward

11. Cultural Revolution

12. Cultural Revolution Goal=To purge China of the bourgeois tendencies
Bourgeois-(Bourg-wa)- Middle Class
Urged the young to experience revolution like he had

13. Cultural Revolution
Red Guards-bands of teenagers who waved copies of “Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung”
People accused were beaten and often killed
Skilled workers forced to join manual labor on farms and labor camps
To restore order, Mao ordered the army to come in