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a. Land Reform Movement (1949–1952) and First Five-Year Plan
Inquiry topic: Economic and social transformations and challenges under Mao (1949–1976) Specified Content: Land Reform Movement (1949–1952) and First Five-Year Plan One of Mao's first actions was to carry...
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b. The Great Leap Forward
Inquiry topic: Economic and social transformations and challenges under Mao (1949–1976) Specified Content: Great Leap Forward In 1958 Mao decided to mobilise the masses to create a massive increase in...
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b. External Threats
Although it might have been expected that China after 1949 would ally with the Soviet Union against the US, in fact divisions between China and the USSR quickly opened up. Thus this period saw conflict...
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b. The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956)
Inquiry Topic: Mao consolidation and maintenance of power (1949–1976) Specified content: The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956) Mao's consolidation of power culminated with the Hundred Flower's Campaign...
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a. Establishment of CCP and PLA control after 1949
Inquiry Topic: Mao consolidation and maintenance of power (1949–1976) Specified content: Once in power the CCP was able to extend its power through a series of mass campaigns launched from above but...
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ii) Role of United Nations; UNRRA,IRO
This page examines the ways in which the United Nations responded to the displacement crisis following the Second World War - specifically the aims and work of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration...
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i. Legal methods versus force
Inquiry question: How was authoritarian rule maintained? Lines of Inquiry: Legal methods Use of force The CCP set up a constitution and established elections on coming to...
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a. Impact of policies, popular resistance, internal opposition,
Inquiry question: How was authoritarian rule challenged? Lines of Inquiry: Although Mao's policies created discontent in various social groups, there was very little popular resistance - mainly because...
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iii. Experiences of marginalised groups
Inquiry question: How did authoritarian rule affect people’s lives? Line of Inquiry: Experiences of marginalized groups The vast majority of Chinese were of Han Chinese ethnicity. However, China was a...
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i. Economic effects
Inquiry question: How did authoritarian rule affect people’slives? Line of Inquiry: Economic effects Mao's aim was to transform China into a modern power to avoid it being exploited by other countries...