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The Great Leap Forward

Mao Zedong's Utopian Ideas

Term used to describe Mao Zedong's campaign aim to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society. Through rapid industrialization and collectivization, he hoped to achieve this transformation. This campaign however, led to The Great Chinese Famine.

Mao Zedong believed that chinese family culture corrupted his ideas of a utopian society for China. He believed that the nation needed to abandon its traditional ways in order to modernize and become a great power. He sought to revolutionize agriculture and industrial production.

Mao Zedong

Cultural Revolution

Born December 26, 1893 and died September 9, 1976. He is the founding father of the P.R.C. or People's Republic of China. He governed the country of China as chairman of the communist party until he died. Over the course of his rule, experts estimate that he was responsible for the death of around 45,000,000 - 78,000,000 people.

(1965-1968)

He feared others in the party were taking on leading roles that would weaken his power and ultimately the country. He believed that the progress already made by China had led to a more privileged upper class. He believed people were acquiring too much power at his expense. AKA he was a control freak and believed any decision not made by him could harm the country. He set out to create a cult for himself and to purge the chinese communist party of anyone who did not support him.

Why is Hitler' s reign more well- known?

Hitler killed around 12,000,000 people over the course of around seven years. Hitler's persecutions were much more controversial and also targeted towards a more specific group of people. Mao Zedong sentenced millions of Chinese to death to destroy old chinese culture in order to modernize the country over the course of thirty years

Mao Zedong's Genocide

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