Author Question: The idealistic goal of Mao's Great Leap Forward in 1958 was based on a. increasing steel ... (Read 151 times)

CQXA · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The idealistic goal of Mao's Great Leap Forward in 1958 was based on

a. increasing steel production with government subsidies for building modern steel mills.
b. mechanizing farms by subsidizing farm machinery for peasant farms.
c. reviving the true revolutionary potential of the Chinese peasant and worker.
d. expanding property rights for the small farmer and shop owner.
e. making China a self-sufficient food producer without ties to global economics.

Question 2

Mao's public call for new ideas as part of the Let a hundred flowers bloom program was especially harsh on

a. creative artists.
b. merchants and industrialists.
c. peasant farmers.
d. foreign relations with the Soviet Union.
e. intellectuals who were critical of communism or of Mao.