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The great leap forward

After creating the Chinese People's Republic in 1949, Mao Zedong, who was one of the 19.___________(FAMOUS) leaders of China, launched reforms to transform China's semi-feudal, mostly agricultural society into an industrialised socialist state. In the late 1950s, rapid economic growth 20.___________(ACHIEVE). However, this development came at a terrible cost. Mao transformed rural China into a series of farming communes in which villagers pooled land, animals, tools, and crops. The authorities 21.___________(TAKE) vast amounts of grain from the communes to feed city workers, and this, along with a series of natural disasters, led to famine and starvation. The consequences were staggering: an estimated 45 million people died.

Escalation of violence

In 1939, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe forced Jews to flee to Jerusalem. Facing a much larger arrival of settlers than they 22.___________(EXPECT), the British proposed a restriction on the free settlement of Jewish refugees in Palestine. After World War II, violence in Palestine escalated, and in 1947 the British government said it would end 23.___________(IT) rule and hand the "Palestine problem" to the United Nations. The Holocaust convinced the UN that the Jewish 24.___________(PERSON) needed a homeland, so they decided to divide Palestine into an area for Arabs and the rest for a Jewish state. The Jews agreed with the plan, but the Arabs refused it. Despite this, on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was born.

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