Edexcel GCSE History: Paper 3 Option 32 — Maos China, c1945-76

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What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Establishing communist rule, 1945–59

  • 1.1 – The Civil War, 1945–49
  • 1.2 – Communist rule
  • 1.3 – Consolidating the CCP’s hold on power, 1951–52
  • 1.4 – The Hundred Flowers campaign, 1956–57

• Topic 2 — Economic policy, 1949–65

  • 2.1 – Early changes in agriculture, 1949–57
  • 2.2 – Industry and the Five-Year Plan, 1953–57
  • 2.3 – The Great Leap Forward
  • 2.4 – Economic reform

• Topic 3 — The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, 1966–76

  • 3.1 – Reasons for the Cultural Revolution
  • 3.2 – The Red Guards and the Red Terror
  • 3.3 – The effects of the Cultural Revolution
  • 3.4 – The end of the Cultural Revolution, 1968–76

• Topic 4 — Life in Mao’s China, 1949–76

  • 4.1 – Communist control
  • 4.2 – Family life and the role of women
  • 4.3 – Education and health
  • 4.4 – Cultural change

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