What prevented the success of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward?

The people focused too much on tending their farms and not on industry.

Industry and mining operations in the cities required too many people.

The goods being made were fewer and of lower quality than expected.

Too little housing existed for everyone who wanted to live in communes.

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Aiyana Arellano

10 January, 05:17

What prevented the success of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward?

The people focused too much on tending their farms and not on industry.

Industry and mining operations in the cities required too many people.

The goods being made were fewer and of lower quality than expected.

Too little housing existed for everyone who wanted to live in communes.

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Anton Garner · Answer 1

History records the Great Leap Forward as a disaster. It gave rise to economic stagnation, led to food shortages and famine, and caused the deaths of untold millions. The Great Leap Forward was announced by Mao at a party meeting in Nanjing in January 1958.

Rhianna Craig · Answer 2

The correct answer is C) The goods being made were fewer and of lower quality, than expected.

The reason that prevented the success of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was that the goods being made were fewer and of lower quality, than expected.

Between 1958 and 1960, Mao Zedong installed the program called the Great Leao Forward in Communist China. He wanted to resolve China's problems in agriculture and the lack of industry. What Mao truly wanted was a rapid transformation from an agrarian Chinese society to a powerful industrial China. The program failed, resulting in a total disaster. The food output declined and produced the Chinese famine that killed many people.