t, land reforms and social campaigns. This was the only successful five-year plan, and it ended up bringing around the Industrial revolution of China, and made a very great impact on the future of the Chinese people and their way of thinking.The Hundred Flowers movement came right after the Five-Year Plan ended in 1956. This was a campaign that Mao started to, "lift restrictions on the expressions of views by educated people and intellectuals, and to encourage more variety in art and literature." This proved an unsuccessful campaign for Mao, because too many people were attacking the policies of the regime itself, when Mao thought they would discretely be used to criticize the way things were done, not why things were done.In 1958, Mao introduced the Great Leap Forward, which was to be the second five-year plan. This became one of Mao biggest failures as ruler of the CCP. The Great Leap Forward is more commonly known to history as the Great Leap Backward. Many were suprised at Mao's stupidity about the Great Leap Forward, especially since Mao used to be a farmer himself. The Great Leap Forward ended up killing 20-30 million people as a result of starvation and diseases related to poor supplies and famine. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were Mao's greatest failures.The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969, was a power struggle between Mao and the older officers in the government. Mao used youth and freedom to rally against the older powers in an attempt to show the people that he was really the one with the best idea of Chinese thought. The army became involved, because Mao could not control the followers by words alone. Since Lin Biao, in charge of the military, thought that the army would keep the newfound power it had gained through the Cultural Revolution, he decided he would change Mao's power. The army took care of gathering youth from around China to produce the Red Army. This displayed that Mao was still in power an...
