One of the outcomes of the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution was the Great Leap Forward. What was planned for this "Leap" to help China, and how did it turn out? Write your answer in a paragraph of at least 125 words.

500 books can be produced by one man and a printing press within 5 months, while a copyist can only produce one in the same amount of time

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

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