1. 1949 - The People's Republic of China is established with Mao Zedong
serving as its autocratic leader.
II. 1958 - Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward economic program results in
widespread starvation in China.
III. 1966 - Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution in China, leading
to violence, chaos, and an economic depression.
IV. 1978 - Deng Xiaoping becomes the leader of China following Mao
Zedong's death and replaces many of Mao's policies.
Examine this list of events that took place in China during the 20th century.
Which events could possibly have caused Deng Xiaoping to replace many of
Mao's policies when he became China's leader?

On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China celebrated its 70th anniversary, and it really has something to celebrate: over the same stretch of the path, the country has gone from complete devastation to the status of the second state in the world. By the end of 1976, China was in a deep economic and socio-political crisis. The crisis was caused by the great-power militaristic course of Mao Zedong, the voluntarist policy of the “Great Leap Forward” and the Maoist “cultural revolution.” According to the Chinese press, 1966-1976 became the “lost decade,” which threw the country back, putting the national economy on the brink of collapse.

The basis for the practical development of Deng Xiaoping's reform ideas was the course of “four modernizations,” which was approved in the mid-70s, that pursued the goal of transformation in four areas - agriculture, industry, the army, science and technology. The policy of the “four modernizations” reflected the material content of the reform. The essence of the ideological and political line was represented by the “four basic principles”: the socialist path of development, the democratic dictatorship of the people, the leadership of the Communist Party, Marxism-Leninism and the ideas of Mao Zedong.

Explanation:

Parrain Parrain · Answer 2 · 2025-03-24T17:15:19-04:00

Events that may have led to Deng Xiaoping replacing several policies by Mao were:

The widespread starvation that came with the Great Leap Forward.
The violence, chaos, and economic depression that came with the Cultural Revolution.

Deng Xiaoping realized that China under Mao had suffered a lot of economic problems. Millions of people had also died.

He knew that continuing Mao's policies would only ruin China more and so he decided to replace a lot of these policies to allow for China to become better than it was under Mao.

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