(Worth all of my 90 Points) One of the outcomes of the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution was the Great Leap Forward. What was planned for this "Leap" to help China, and how did it turn out? Write your answer in a paragraph of at least 125 words.

The Great Leap Forward was a plan that was created to increase China's economy and industry. It was started by the Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong in 1958 and it ended in 1961.During this time, grain production fell from 200 million tons to 150 million tons. This resulted in widespread famine.The central idea behind the Great Leap was that rapid development of China's agricultural and industrial sectors should take place in parallel. The hope was to industrialize by making use of the massive supply of cheap labour and avoid having to import heavy machinery.The Great Leap Forward damaged China's economy. Machines broke down from overuse and farm production suffered because men who knew little about farming were assigned fields to farm. During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards arrested or tortured people who disagreed with Mao's communist ideas.It was Mao's grand deign to mobilize the whole population with hopes of industrializing China quickly. This included the creation of communes to organize the population. It was the Chinese way in which they organized the population. Each one included about 5,000 households or 25,000 people each.The Great Leap Forward was a failure because Mao's Red Guards attackerd anyone consdiered bourgeous. Skilled workers were forced to leave their jobs

Explanation:

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

christopher columbus (1492–1504)