Multiple choice

Mao's Great Leap Forward had all of the following effects except...

  1. proved that agricultural collectives could replace factories

  2. up 30 million died

  3. collectives produced unusable steel

  4. "experts" reduced Mao's authority in 1961
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Explanation

The Great Leap Forward was a catastrophic failure that led to widespread famine and economic collapse, not a success in replacing factories with agricultural collectives.

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