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        • 1. What is Hong Kong like?
        • 2. How has Hong Kong changed?
        • 3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
        • 4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
        • 5. Completing the Travel Guide
      • 2. Beliefs and Believers >
        • 1. Ultimate Questions
        • 2. Creation Stories
        • 3. Religion in Hong Kong
        • 4. Religion and the Environment
        • 5. Religion and Evolution
        • 6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
        • 7. End of Unit Assessment
      • 3. Exploration and Discovery >
        • 1. Why do people explore?
        • 2. Impact of Exploration
        • 4. Types of Discoveries
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
      • 4. Culture and Country >
        • 1. What is Cultural Identity?
        • 2. China's Cultural Identity
        • 3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
        • 4. Japan's Cultural Identity
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
    • Year 8 >
      • 1. Happiness >
        • 1. Happiness and Me
        • 2. Religions and Happiness
        • 3. Happiness Around the World
        • 4. Happiness and Economics
        • 5. Society and Happiness
        • 6. End of Unit Assessment
      • 2. Emergency on Planet Earth >
        • 1. Consumption and the Environment
        • 2. Biomes and the Biosphere
        • 3. Tropical Rainforests
        • 4. Deforestation
        • 5. Conservation
        • 6. Plastic Seas Assessment
      • 3. Life after Death >
        • 1. What happens when we die?
        • 2. Mythology and the Afterlife
        • 3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
        • 4. Religion and the Afterlife
        • 5. Life After Death Assessment
      • 4. Crime & Punishment >
        • 1. What is Crime?
        • 2. Hero or Villain?
        • 3. Jack the Ripper
        • 4. Crime Writing
        • 5. The Geography of Crime
        • 6. Henry VIII Assessment
  • Y9 History
    • 1. Innovation & Industry >
      • 1. Causes
      • 2. Innovations
      • 3. Conditions
      • 4. Changes
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      • 6-7. Assessment 1 >
        • The USA
      • 8. Reflection
    • Old History >
      • 1. Hong Kong Story >
        • Further Reading
      • 2. The Slave Trade
      • 3. The First World War
      • 4. The Changing Role of Women
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      • 1. What is Big History? >
        • 1.0 - Welcome to Big History
        • 1.1 - Scale
        • 1.2 - Origin Stories
        • 1.3 - What are Disciplines?
        • 1.4 - My Big History
        • Glossary
      • 2. The Big Bang >
        • 2.0 - Changing Understandings
        • 2.1 - The Big Bang
        • 2.2 - Claim Testing
        • Glossary
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        • 3.0 - How were stars formed?
        • 3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
        • 3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
        • Glossary
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        • 4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
        • 4.1 - What was young Earth like?
        • 4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
        • 4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
        • Glossary
      • 5. Life >
        • 5.0 - What is Life?
        • 5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
        • 5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
        • 5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
        • Glossary
      • 6. Early Humans >
        • 6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
        • 6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
        • 6.2 - Collective Learning
        • 6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
        • Glossary
      • 7. Agriculture & Civilisation >
        • 7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
        • 7.1 - The First Cities and States
        • 7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
        • Glossary
      • 8. Expansion & Interconnection >
        • 8.0 - Expansion
        • 8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
        • 8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
        • 8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
        • Glossary
      • 9. Acceleration >
        • 9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
        • 9.1 - Acceleration
        • 9.2 - The Anthropocene
        • 9.3 - Changing Economies
        • 9.4 - Industrialism
        • 9.5 - Modern States and Identities
        • 9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
        • 9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
        • Glossary
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        • 10.0 - Looking Back
        • 10.1 - The Biosphere
        • 10.2 - Looking Forward
        • Glossary
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    • Germany 1918-45 >
      • 1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
      • 2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
      • 3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
      • 4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
      • 5. Germany during the Second World War
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • China 1900-89 >
      • 1. China 1900-1934
      • 2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
      • 3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
      • 4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
      • 5. China after Mao 1976-1989
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • US Civil Rights 1945-74 >
      • 1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
      • 2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
      • 3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
      • 4. Protest Movements
      • 5. Nixon & Watergate
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • Russia & the USSR 1905-24 >
      • Old Exam Questions
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  • IBDP
    • Paper 1: The Move to Global War >
      • 1. Japanese Expansion >
        • 1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
        • 2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
        • 3. The Invasion of Manchuria
        • 4. The Sino-Japanese War
        • 5. The Road to War
      • 2. German and Italian Expansion >
        • 1. Causes of Italian Expansion
        • 2. Responses to Italian Expansion
        • 3. Causes of German Expansion
        • 4. Responses to German Expansion
        • 5. The Road to War in Europe
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 2: The Cold War >
      • 1. Introduction to the Cold War
      • 2. Causes of the Cold War
      • 3. The Cold War in Asia
      • 4. Course of the Cold War
      • 5. End of the Cold War
      • 6. The Impact of Leaders
      • 7. The Impact of Crises
      • 8. Impact on Nations
      • Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Glossary
      • Historiography
      • Primary Sources
    • Paper 2: Authoritarian States >
      • 1. Emergence of Authoritarian States >
        • 1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
        • 2. Rise of Hitler
        • 3. Rise of Mao
        • 4. Rise of Castro
        • 5. Rise of Stalin
        • 6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
      • 2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power >
        • 1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
        • 2. Mao's China 1949-1976
        • 3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
        • 4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
      • 3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies >
        • 4. Comparing Domestic Policies
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3: Asia and Oceania >
      • Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912 >
        • 1. The Tongzhi Restoration
        • 2. Impact of the Boxer Rebellion
        • 3. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution
        • 4. The Meiji Restoration
        • 5. Early Japanese Imperialism
        • 6. The Opening of Korea
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: Japan 1912-1990 >
        • 1. The Meiji & Taisho Periods
        • 2. The Rise of Militarism
        • 3. The Move to Global War
        • 4. The Pacific War
        • 5. The US Occupation
        • 6. The 'Economic Miracle'
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      • Paper 3: China and Korea 1910-1950 >
        • 1. Rise of National Identity 1911-1927
        • 2. Nationalist Rule in China 1927-1937
        • 3. Rise of Communism in China
        • 4. Japanese Invasion and Civil War 1937-1949
        • 5. Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
        • 6. Taiwan - The Republic of China
        • Exam Questions
      • Paper 3: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005 >
        • 1. Establishment of the Communist State 1949-1961
        • 2. The Transition to Socialism 1949-1976
        • 3. The Cultural Revolution
        • 4. China's Foreign Affairs 1949-1976
        • 5. China after Mao 1976-2000
        • 6. China's Impact on the Region
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FURTHER READING: CHINA 1911-89

Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation he lost - Jonathan Fenby


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With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.

China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 - Rana Mitter


This book is the winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today.

​With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict. He writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Mitter puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan's failure to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia.
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Mao's Great Famine - Frank Dikotter


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Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era."

​Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin


This is the heartening rags-to-riches story of Li, who achieved prominence on the international ballet stage. Born in 1961, just before the Cultural Revolution, Li was raised in extreme rural poverty and witnessed Communist brutality, yet he imbibed a reverence for Mao and his programs. In a twist of fate worthy of a fairy tale (or a ballet), Li, at age 11, was selected by delegates from Madame Mao's arts programs to join the Beijing Dance Academy. In 1979, through the largesse of choreographer and artistic director Ben Stevenson, he was selected to spend a summer with the Houston Ballet—the first official exchange of artists between China and America since 1949. Li's visit, with its taste of freedom, made an enormous impression on his perceptions of both ballet and of politics, and once back in China, Li lobbied persistently and shrewdly to be allowed to return to America. Miraculously, he prevailed in getting permission for a one-year return.

​In an April 1981 spectacle that received national media attention, Li defected in a showdown at the Chinese consulate in Houston. He married fellow dancer Mary McKendry and gained international renown as a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet and later with the Australian Ballet; eventually, he retired from dance to work in finance. Despite Li's tendency toward the cloying and sentimental, his story will appeal to an audience beyond Sinophiles and ballet aficionados—it provides a fascinating glimpse of the history of Chinese-U.S. relations and the dissolution of the Communist ideal in the life of one fortunate individual
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Red Azalea - Anchee Min


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Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min’s memoir is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which Newsweek calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting."

Anchee Min - Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She came to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 1994 and was an international bestseller, with rights sold in twenty countries. Her novels Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid were published to critical acclaim and were national bestsellers. Her two other novels, Katherine and Wild Ginger, were published to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales. ​

Red Star over China - Edgar Snow


The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. This edition includes extensive notes on military and political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution, and nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men and women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.

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The Penguin History of Modern China - Jonathan Fenby


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In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the most important global superpower all the more extraordinary. Jonathan Fenby's comprehensive account is the definitive guide to this remarkable transformation.

About the author: Jonathan Fenby, CBE, has been the editor of the Observer and the South China Morning Post. His books include Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost and Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong. He is currently Editor-in-Chief and China Editor of the analytical service, Trusted Sources.

The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang


In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.

​Review - China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago.
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 - Frank Dikotter


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Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the "liberation" and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a "carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind." Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang


The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician.

​As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
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  • Y7/8 Humanities
    • Year 7 >
      • 1. Hong Kong - Live it, Love it >
        • 1. What is Hong Kong like?
        • 2. How has Hong Kong changed?
        • 3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
        • 4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
        • 5. Completing the Travel Guide
      • 2. Beliefs and Believers >
        • 1. Ultimate Questions
        • 2. Creation Stories
        • 3. Religion in Hong Kong
        • 4. Religion and the Environment
        • 5. Religion and Evolution
        • 6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
        • 7. End of Unit Assessment
      • 3. Exploration and Discovery >
        • 1. Why do people explore?
        • 2. Impact of Exploration
        • 4. Types of Discoveries
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
      • 4. Culture and Country >
        • 1. What is Cultural Identity?
        • 2. China's Cultural Identity
        • 3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
        • 4. Japan's Cultural Identity
        • 5. End of Unit Assessment
    • Year 8 >
      • 1. Happiness >
        • 1. Happiness and Me
        • 2. Religions and Happiness
        • 3. Happiness Around the World
        • 4. Happiness and Economics
        • 5. Society and Happiness
        • 6. End of Unit Assessment
      • 2. Emergency on Planet Earth >
        • 1. Consumption and the Environment
        • 2. Biomes and the Biosphere
        • 3. Tropical Rainforests
        • 4. Deforestation
        • 5. Conservation
        • 6. Plastic Seas Assessment
      • 3. Life after Death >
        • 1. What happens when we die?
        • 2. Mythology and the Afterlife
        • 3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
        • 4. Religion and the Afterlife
        • 5. Life After Death Assessment
      • 4. Crime & Punishment >
        • 1. What is Crime?
        • 2. Hero or Villain?
        • 3. Jack the Ripper
        • 4. Crime Writing
        • 5. The Geography of Crime
        • 6. Henry VIII Assessment
  • Y9 History
    • 1. Innovation & Industry >
      • 1. Causes
      • 2. Innovations
      • 3. Conditions
      • 4. Changes
      • 5. Sources
      • 6-7. Assessment 1 >
        • The USA
      • 8. Reflection
    • Old History >
      • 1. Hong Kong Story >
        • Further Reading
      • 2. The Slave Trade
      • 3. The First World War
      • 4. The Changing Role of Women
  • Elements
    • Big History Project >
      • 1. What is Big History? >
        • 1.0 - Welcome to Big History
        • 1.1 - Scale
        • 1.2 - Origin Stories
        • 1.3 - What are Disciplines?
        • 1.4 - My Big History
        • Glossary
      • 2. The Big Bang >
        • 2.0 - Changing Understandings
        • 2.1 - The Big Bang
        • 2.2 - Claim Testing
        • Glossary
        • Links & Resources
      • 3. Stars and Elements >
        • 3.0 - How were stars formed?
        • 3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
        • 3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
        • Glossary
      • 4. Our Solar System & Earth >
        • 4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
        • 4.1 - What was young Earth like?
        • 4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
        • 4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
        • Glossary
      • 5. Life >
        • 5.0 - What is Life?
        • 5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
        • 5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
        • 5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
        • Glossary
      • 6. Early Humans >
        • 6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
        • 6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
        • 6.2 - Collective Learning
        • 6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
        • Glossary
      • 7. Agriculture & Civilisation >
        • 7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
        • 7.1 - The First Cities and States
        • 7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
        • Glossary
      • 8. Expansion & Interconnection >
        • 8.0 - Expansion
        • 8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
        • 8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
        • 8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
        • Glossary
      • 9. Acceleration >
        • 9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
        • 9.1 - Acceleration
        • 9.2 - The Anthropocene
        • 9.3 - Changing Economies
        • 9.4 - Industrialism
        • 9.5 - Modern States and Identities
        • 9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
        • 9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
        • Glossary
      • 10. The Future >
        • 10.0 - Looking Back
        • 10.1 - The Biosphere
        • 10.2 - Looking Forward
        • Glossary
      • Assessment Rubrics
      • Key Texts
      • Little Big History
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
      • Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
      • Student Work
    • National History Day
  • IGCSE
    • Germany 1918-45 >
      • 1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
      • 2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
      • 3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
      • 4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
      • 5. Germany during the Second World War
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • China 1900-89 >
      • 1. China 1900-1934
      • 2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
      • 3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
      • 4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
      • 5. China after Mao 1976-1989
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • US Civil Rights 1945-74 >
      • 1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
      • 2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
      • 3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
      • 4. Protest Movements
      • 5. Nixon & Watergate
      • Old Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Further Watching
    • Russia & the USSR 1905-24 >
      • Old Exam Questions
    • Past Papers
  • IBDP
    • Paper 1: The Move to Global War >
      • 1. Japanese Expansion >
        • 1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
        • 2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
        • 3. The Invasion of Manchuria
        • 4. The Sino-Japanese War
        • 5. The Road to War
      • 2. German and Italian Expansion >
        • 1. Causes of Italian Expansion
        • 2. Responses to Italian Expansion
        • 3. Causes of German Expansion
        • 4. Responses to German Expansion
        • 5. The Road to War in Europe
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 2: The Cold War >
      • 1. Introduction to the Cold War
      • 2. Causes of the Cold War
      • 3. The Cold War in Asia
      • 4. Course of the Cold War
      • 5. End of the Cold War
      • 6. The Impact of Leaders
      • 7. The Impact of Crises
      • 8. Impact on Nations
      • Exam Questions
      • Further Reading
      • Glossary
      • Historiography
      • Primary Sources
    • Paper 2: Authoritarian States >
      • 1. Emergence of Authoritarian States >
        • 1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
        • 2. Rise of Hitler
        • 3. Rise of Mao
        • 4. Rise of Castro
        • 5. Rise of Stalin
        • 6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
      • 2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power >
        • 1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
        • 2. Mao's China 1949-1976
        • 3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
        • 4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
      • 3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies >
        • 4. Comparing Domestic Policies
      • Exam Questions
    • Paper 3: Asia and Oceania >
      • Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912 >
        • 1. The Tongzhi Restoration
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