Research Questions 1) What were the overall causes of this genocide? Chairman Mao believed that China can become an Independent Economy, creating the idea of the Great Leap Forward, to try to boost crops and industry. 2) What key people were responsible for causing your genocide? Mao Zedong and the Communist and Socialist Party. 3) What makes your genocide different or unique than other genocides in the past? This genocide started as a boost in economics and ended up as a genocide due to the famine it caused. Also, this was a man-made Genocide. Groups of different races, minorities or beliefs didn't get targeted but the implementing of the Great Leap Forward was more like the "Great Leap Backwards". 4) How did this genocide come to an end? Major players that helped stop it? It ended by the Lushan Conference in 1959, where many Moderate leaders criticized Mao Zedong's party on creating huge economic problems upon China. 5) What short term and long term effects has your genocide had on the world? Some short term effects of the Great Leap Forward was famine. Famine swept across China creating the deaths of millions. This had impact upon the world because writers such Frank Dikötter showed in books published around the world about what happened during this man-made Genocide. Long term effects of the Great Leap Forward is that the Chinese Government had create inequalities. These inequalities would involve making caste of landlords, rich government workers and peasants.