WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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help the bourgeoisie prosper
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“rectify thinking through labor”
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make agriculture more efficient
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grow extra food for Taiwan
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Leap Forward was a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Moderately productive land was left unplanted with the belief that concentrating manure and effort on the most fertile land would lead to large per-acre productivity gains. Altogether, these untested innovations generally led to decreases in grain production rather than increases.
Detailed explanation-3: -Communes (The Great Leap Forward) Private plots of land and private markets were eliminated. The labor force was reorganized into work crews for large projects-e.g. water conservation (irrigation) or local industry. Accumulated funds at the commune level were used to support education, health care, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -Great Leap Forward, in Chinese history, the campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems.