As part of this larger initiative, an attempt to kill the "Four Pests" was launched, causing crops to bedevastated by locusts following the Kill A Sparrow Campaign. Under this program, wages were paid inwork points instead of money, and plows dug to depths of two meters in an attempt to create deeper croproots. This period grew out of a conference in the resort city of Qingdao and the Anti-Rightist Campaign.This project led to the creation of many backyard furnaces in an attempt to overtake Great Britain withinfifteen years in steel production. For 10 points, name this 1958 to 1960 period in w
As part of this larger initiative, an attempt to kill the "Four Pests" was launched, causing crops to bedevastated by locusts following the Kill A Sparrow Campaign. Under this program, wages were paid inwork points instead of money, and plows dug to depths of two meters in an attempt to create deeper croproots. This period grew out of a conference in the resort city of Qingdao and the Anti-Rightist Campaign.This project led to the creation of many backyard furnaces in an attempt to overtake Great Britain withinfifteen years in steel production. For 10 points, name this 1958 to 1960 period in which millions of peopledied of famine as China attempted to rapidly industrialize.
As part of this larger initiative, an attempt to kill the "Four Pests" was launched, causing crops to bedevastated by locusts following the Kill A Sparrow Campaign.
 Great Leap Forward [prompt on Second Five Year Plan; prompt on Great Famine]