Question

A leader believes that his city's economy will improve if its network of small dirt roads is replaced with a modern highway system. He forces all of the city's citizens to quit their jobs and begin paving new concrete roads. Since none of the citizens have experience with this kind of work, the new paved roads are a disaster. In fact, it's even more difficult to drive on them than it was to drive on the dirt roads! This scenario is most similar to which of the following events?
A. The Tiananmen Square Massacre
B. The Great Leap Forward
C. The Cultural Revolution
D. The Chinese Civil war

Answer 1

Correct answer choice is:

B. The Great Leap Forward

Explanation:

The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China held a financial and political campaign by a single Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962.

The Great Leap Forward designed to advance cultivation and manufacturing. Mao considered that both had to develop to enable the other to produce. The production could just benefit if the workforce remained well supported, while the farming operators required industry to build the advanced tools required for modernization. To support for aforementioned, China was transformed into a group of municipalities.

Answer 2

This scenario would be most closely associated with "B. The Great Leap Forward," since both of these scenarios involved the government pushing for improvements that the citizenry was simply not capable of yet.