What was the purpose and result of the Great Leap Forward?
Answer: The purpose of the Great Leap forward was to speed up industrialization, but failed (actually slowing it down) due to poor planning and inefficient industries. The communes people were grouped into resulted in widespread famine.
History
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- What is imperialism?
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- What are the countries and islands of Southern Africa?
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- What aspects of geography have the volcanic activity in Eastern Africa affected?
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- What is the Great Rift valley, and where is it located? Also, what two parts is it divided into and where are they located?
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- What are the nations and locations of nations of East Africa?
- What are the major resources of West/Central Africa and where are they located?
- What route does the Congo river follow?
- What are two major rivers in West/Central Africa, where do they flow, and how were they made?
- Where and what is the Congo Basin?
- What are the characteristics of the Sahel?
- What is the geography of West and Central Africa?
- What is the extent of West and Central Africa?
- What are the resources of India?
- What geographic features characterize India?
- What happened to Bangladesh in 1998?
- How was the Indus Valley formed?
- What are the resources like in the Indian Perimeter? What is an exception?
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