HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
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Famine, 20 million people died
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The economy was boosted
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China became a player in the international setting
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Chinese citizens were given more freedoms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instead of stimulating the country’s economy, The Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation and famine. It is estimated that between 30 and 45 million Chinese citizens died due to famine, execution, and forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1960–1962, an estimated thirty million people died of starvation in China, more than any other single famine in recorded human history. Most tragically, this disaster was largely preventable.
Detailed explanation-3: -Forty years ago China was in the middle of the world’s largest famine: between the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 some 30 million Chinese starved to death and about the same number of births were lost or postponed.
Detailed explanation-4: -What were the consequences of the Great Leap Forward? China had a famine were 20-45 million people starved. The metal became pig iron and Mao Zedong lost the confidence of his people.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the launch of Reforms and Opening Up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially stated in June 1981 that the famine was mainly due to the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward as well as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in addition to some natural disasters and the Sino-Soviet split.
Detailed explanation-6: -In January 1958 Mao implemented the second Five-year plan, which he called the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward was a disaster, in relation to its aims, which resulted in one of the world’s worst famines: figures estimate that 20 million to 30 million people died, because of this plan.