Activity 1 - What was our inquiry?

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Activity Tasks

1. ​Mind-Map - Create a concept-map using Padlet, Mindmup or any other similar mind-mapping tool (or create a sketchnote by hand!) to unpack and brainstorm the statement of inquiry for this unit:

Conflicts provide significant turning points in which those in power can be displaced and discredited, often to the advantage of rival groups

Activity 2 - What concepts did we study?

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Activity Tasks

1. Concepts - Make sure you include the following concepts for this unit as sub-headings for your mind-map:
   1. ​Key Concept - Significance
   2. Related Concepts - Causality; Conflict
   3. Global Context - Orientation in Time and Space ​
2. Define - For each concept/global context, try to research and formulate your own definitions.
3. Link - Link connected concepts/ideas with arrows.

Activity 3 - Which events are significant?

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​Activity Tasks
Now fill in your mind-map with key historical information and facts about the main events of the unit. Be sure to include:

1. Sino-Japanese War: Events - 1936: Xi’an Incident, Second United Front; 1937: Marco-Polo Bridge Incident; Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; Battle for Shanghai; Battle for Nanjing; 1938: Battle of Taierzhuang; Battle for Wuhan; 1939: Japanese Invasion of Southern China; GMD flee to Chongqing; Wang Jingwei flees to Nanjing; 1940: CPC Hundred Regiments Campaign; Japanese Three-Alls Campaign; 1941: New Fourth Army Incident; USSR/Japan Neutrality Pact; Pearl Harbour & US Support for GMD; 1942: Japanese Invasion of Burma; 1943: Henan Famine; Operation Matterhorn; The Hump Re-supply begins; Cairo Conference; 1944: Operation Ichi-Go; US Dixie Mission to CPC; Wedemeyer replaces Stillwell; 1945: Burma Recaptured; USSR invasion of Manchuria; Atomic Bombs. Summary - Impact on GMD; Impact on CPC; Economic Issues; Social Issues; Political Issues; Military Issues
   
2. Chinese Civil War: Events - 1945: US-Sponsored Hurley Peace Talks; US/NRA Airlift to NE China; Marshall Mission; 1946: Soviet withdrawal from Manchuria; GMD Manchurian Offensive; US ‘June Ceasefire’; 1947: Reformation of Red Army/PLA; CPC Guerilla Warfare Campaign in Manchuria; GMD Strong-Point Offensive; Yenan Captured by GMD; 1948: Liaoshen Campaign (fall of Jinzhou, Changchun, Shenyang); Huaihai Campaign (fall of Xuzhou); Pingjin Campaign; 1949: Resignation of Chiang as President; Fall of Nanjing/Shanghai; Crossing of Yangtze; Fall of Changsha, Guangzhou, Chongqing; GMD flee to Taiwan; Summary - GMD performance and reasons for failure; CPC performance and reasons for victory; social, political, economic, relations, miliary factors.

Activity 4 - Where did the CPC win?

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Activity Tasks

1. Evaluate - Your assessment for this unit is to complete this worksheet. This is done by identifying what you think is the most significant turning point event of the Civil War that enabled the CPC to win. Research details of that event in order to explain how significant it was, referring to each of the five criteria:
   1. Remarkable - the event was remarked on by people at the time or since
   2. Remembered - the event/development was important at some stage within the collective memory of a group or groups
   3. Resonant - People like to make analogies with it; it is possible to connect with experiences, beliefs or attitudes across time and place
   4. Resulted in change - that had consequences for the future
   5. Revealed - some other aspects of the past
2. Write - Using your research from the significance review, write a 500-word answer to the question, “Where did the CPC win the Chinese Civil War?”.
3. ​Essay Plan - Try practicing for your Paper 3 test by essay planning previous questions on this topic. Use this essay mark-scheme to help:
   1. ​To what extent did the mistakes of the Nationalists lead to their defeat in the Chinese Civil War (1946–1949)? - November 2018
   2. “The main reason why the Guomindang (Kuomintang) lost the Chinese Civil War (1946–1949) to the Communists was that they were exhausted after fighting the Japanese in the Sino–Japanese War (1937–1945).” To what extent do you agree with this statement? - May 2012
   3. “Mao’s leadership was the crucial factor in leading the Communists to victory in the Chinese Civil War (1946–1949).” Discuss the validity of this claim - November 2011

Further reading for revision

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obligatory reading

1. Fenby, J. (2008). Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, pp. 329-350
   
2. ​Lynch, M. (2010). Essential Histories: The Chinese Civil War 1945-49, pp. 34-62
   
3. Lynch, M. (2016). Access to History - China 1839-1997, pp. 116-127

recommended reading

1. Fairbank, J.K., & Goldman, M. (2006). China: A New History (2nd ed.), pp. 331-341
2. Spence, J.D. (1990). The Search for Modern China, pp. 484-513
3. Zarrow, P. (2005). China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949, pp. 337-357

supplementary reading

1. Hsu, I.C.Y. (2000). The Rise of Modern China (6th ed), pp. 619-644

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