Great Leap Forward
1958–1962 · Event
Mao's forced collectivisation triggers history's deadliest famine.
On these timelines: Master, China
Around 1958
- The Beatles (1960)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)