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Book Details
Abstract
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Series Editor: Angela Leonard
This Student Book:
- covers the essential content in the new specification in an engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
- uses the 'Thinking Historically' approach and activities to help develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
- has 'Writing Historically' features that focus on the writing skills most important to historical success. This literacy support uses the proven Grammar for Writing approach used in many English departments
- includes lots of exam guidance, with practice questions, sources, sample answers and tips to support preparation for GCSE assessments.
* These resources have not yet been endorsed. This information is correct as of 31st July 2015, but may be subject to change. You do not have to purchase any resources to deliver our qualification.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Timeline | 6 | ||
| Chapter 1: Establishing communist rule, 1945–59 | 8 | ||
| 1.1: The Civil War, 1945–49 | 9 | ||
| The relative strengths and weaknesses of the CCP and GMD in 1945 | 9 | ||
| Mao and the events of the Civil War | 12 | ||
| 1.2: Communist rule | 19 | ||
| Mao’s ideology | 19 | ||
| The role of Mao | 22 | ||
| The government of China | 22 | ||
| The role of the CCP | 22 | ||
| 1.3: Consolidating the CCP’s hold on power, 1951–52 | 27 | ||
| The use of terror | 27 | ||
| The ‘antis’ movements | 29 | ||
| 1.4: The Hundred Flowers campaign, 1956–57 | 32 | ||
| Mao’s reasons for the Hundred Flowers campaign | 32 | ||
| Key features of the campaign | 35 | ||
| The ‘Anti-Rightist’ purge | 36 | ||
| Recap page | 39 | ||
| Writing Historically | 40 | ||
| Chapter 2: Economic policy, 1949–65 | 42 | ||
| 2.1: Early changes in agriculture, 1949–57 | 43 | ||
| Land reform | 43 | ||
| Moves towards agricultural co-operation | 46 | ||
| Success to 1957 | 48 | ||
| 2.2: The communes | 49 | ||
| Radicalisation, 1958 | 49 | ||
| Establishing the communes | 49 | ||
| The organisation of the communes | 50 | ||
| Declining production | 53 | ||
| The causes of the great famine, 1958–62 | 54 | ||
| The impact of the great famine | 56 | ||
| Reasons for the restoration of private farming | 59 | ||
| 2.3: Industry and the Five-Year Plan, 1953–57 | 60 | ||
| Reasons for the first Five-Year Plan | 60 | ||
| The targets of the first Five-Year Plan | 62 | ||
| The significance of the USSR’s support | 62 | ||
| Achievements of the first Five-Year Plan | 63 | ||
| 2.4: Economic reform and the Great Leap Forward | 67 | ||
| Mao’s reasons for the second Five-Year Plan, 1958–62 | 67 | ||
| The Great Leap Forward | 68 | ||
| Reasons for failures | 70 | ||
| Economic reform, 1962–65 | 71 | ||
| Recap page | 75 | ||
| Chapter 3: The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, 1966–76 | 76 | ||
| 3.1: Reasons for the Cultural Revolution | 77 | ||
| The power struggle | 77 | ||
| The purification of communism | 78 | ||
| 3.2: The Red Guards and the Red Terror | 84 | ||
| Mao’s hold on young people | 84 | ||
| The growth of anarchy, 1967–68 | 89 | ||
| Cultural destruction | 90 | ||
| Government breakdown | 91 | ||
| 3.3: The effects of the Cultural Revolution | 92 | ||
| Political effects | 92 | ||
| The rise and fall of Lin Biao | 95 | ||
| The social effects of the Cultural Revolution | 96 | ||
| Economic effects of the Cultural Revolution | 98 | ||
| 3.4: Winding down the Cultural Revolution, 1968–76 | 100 | ||
| The end of the Red Guards | 100 | ||
| The rise and fall of the ‘Gang of Four’ | 104 | ||
| Recap page | 107 | ||
| Writing Historically | 108 | ||
| Chapter 4: Life in Mao’s China, 1949–76 | 110 | ||
| 4.1: Communist control | 111 | ||
| Censorship | 111 | ||
| Propaganda | 111 | ||
| The significance of the ‘cult of Mao’ | 115 | ||
| Thought control | 117 | ||
| 4.2: Family life and the role of women | 119 | ||
| Changes in the status of women under Mao | 119 | ||
| Reasons for change under Mao | 120 | ||
| Changes in family life | 123 | ||
| 4.3: Education and health | 126 | ||
| Reasons for changes in education | 126 | ||
| Changes in healthcare | 130 | ||
| 4.4: Cultural change | 133 | ||
| Reasons for attacks on traditional culture | 133 | ||
| The role of Jiang Qing | 135 | ||
| Reasons for attacks on religion | 136 | ||
| Recap page | 141 | ||
| Explaining why historians’ interpretations differ | 142 | ||
| Historians focus on different things | 142 | ||
| Historians reach different conclusions from the evidence | 143 | ||
| Preparing for your exams | 144 | ||
| Paper 3, Section A: Question 1 | 146 | ||
| Paper 3, Section A: Question 2 | 147 | ||
| Paper 3, Section B: Question 3a | 149 | ||
| Paper 3, Section B: Question 3a | 150 | ||
| Paper 3, Section B: Questions 3b–c | 151 | ||
| Paper 3, Section B: Question 3d | 153 | ||
| Sources/Interpretations Booklet | 155 | ||
| Answers | 156 | ||
| Index | 157 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 160 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |