Great Leap Forward
1958–1962 · Event
Mao's forced collectivisation triggers history's deadliest famine.
On these timelines: Master, China
Around 1958
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)