Unit 3 - Modern History

(1950–1953); and the nature and practice of China’s subsequent international relations until the 1980s
 * Significant ideas of the period
 * The purpose and nature of the Long March
 * Similarities and differences between the GMD and the CCP
 * The Chinese Revolution (1949)
 * Chinese involvement in the Cold War
 * Relations with the United States in the Korean conflict
 * the causes and significance of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as a continuing attempt to organise Chinese social and economic life and to suppress dissent, and the implications for groups within China, including rural peasants and political dissidents; death of Mao; leadership changes and the ‘Gang of Four’
 * the emergence of Deng Xiaoping as paramount leader in the post-Mao era, including ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’/socialist market economy (Dengism); social and economic reforms after 1978; Democracy Wall, student protests and the Tiananmen Massacre 1989
 * the role and impact of significant individuals in the period, including political, military and social/cultural leaders