WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the 1960s, Mao started the ____ to eliminate opponents and reassert communism in China.
A
Great Leap Forward
B
5 Year Plan
C
Great Purge
D
Cultural Revolution
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cyclical famines and an oppressive landlord system kept the large mass of rural peasantry poor and politically disenfranchised. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was formed in 1921 by young urban intellectuals inspired by European socialist ideas and the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

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