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Introduction
You will use skills of critical reading, analysis and synthesis to pursue knowledge and personal understanding of the major events, individuals and actions that took place as China experienced civil war to then become a single party state. This “Learning Pursuit” provides Tasks for you to complete as well as a Resources page of Web sites, videos and reading sources to guide your research efforts.
You will received daily assignments via the Edline content management system that will be used in conjunction with this learning pursuit.
The Essential Questions for this unit of study are:
Why war? Why civil war?
When is war “just”?
How does conflict change us?
How does a one become a totalitarian dictator?
How does one keep the dictator job over time?
How do we judge ruthless dictators who “advance” nations?
Can we have economic equality in society?
How to reform governmental systems- slowly or radically?
The more focused Unit Questions are:
Why do nations have civil wars (from an ESPRAT+G perspective)?•Who were the Nationalists (Guomindang/Koumintang) and what was their ideology? What were their goals?
What were the immediate ESPRAT+G effects of the 1949 Communist Revolution?
How were the Communists able to defeat the Nationalists?
How did Mao rise to power? What were his methods? What was his skill set?
What was Mao’s ideology from an ESPRAT+G perspective?
How was China a communist state under Mao?
How was China a totalitarian single party state under Mao?
How did Mao stay in power?
What was China’s foreign policy (i.e. Cold War, the USSR, Korean War, Taiwan, etc.)
What were the causes and consequences of the Great Leap?
How successful were the economic, political and social changes introduced in China between 1949 and 1961?
What were the causes and consequences of the Cultural Revolution?
How do historians’ assess Mao?
How do you assess Mao? (Think ESPRAT+G including foreign relations under “P”)
The IB themes are:
Origins and nature of authoritarian and single-party states
Establishment of authoritarian and single party states
Domestic policies and impact
Examine foreign policy
Different types of 20th century wars
Origins and causes of wars
Nature of 20th century wars
Effects and results of 20th century wars
Key Topics, People and Actions
Confucianism
Qing Dynasty
Manchu Dynasty
Boxer Rebellion of 1900
Revolution of 1911
China Under the Warlords (1916-1927)
Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan)
The Three Principles
Yuan Shikai
The New Culture or May Fourth Movement
Mao Zedong
“United Front” against Warlords
Northern Expedition
Jiangxi Soviet
The Long March
Zhang Xueliang
Xian Incident
“United Front” Against Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Comintern
Guomindang-GMD (Kuomintang-KMT)
Manchurian Incident 1931
Republic of China (ROC)
Japanese Occupation
Rape of Nanking (Nanking Massacre)
Japan-China War 1937-1945
Zhou Enlai
Lin Biao
Chinese Civil War (1927-37 & 1946-49)
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
China and the Cold War
100 Flowers Campaign
Korean War
5 Year Plans
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Red Guards
Cult of Mao Zedong
Gang of Four
Deng Xiaoping
Go to Tasks
Updated: April 8, 2012
Author: David Carpenter