Edexcel A level Mao's China Theme 3

A set of lessons and resources for Theme 3 of Mao’s China unit. Includes resources for;

• Mao’s reasons for launching the Cultural Revolution: divisions within the CCP between ideologues and pragmatists; the quest for permanent revolution; attacks on the bureaucracy; the divisions within the CCP
• The Red Guards and Red Terror: Mao’s hold on young people; the mass rallies of 1966; Red Guard attacks on the ‘four olds’ (culture, customs, habits, ideas); the growth of anarchy and the use of terror; cultural destruction.
  Attacks on Mao’s political and class enemies: Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping; Lin Biao; the purging of the CCP membership; ‘capitalist roaders’ and foreigners living in China.
  Winding down the Cultural Revolution, 1968–76: restoration of order by the PLA; ‘up to the mountains and down to the villages’ campaign; the return to power of Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai; reining in the Gang of Four. The death of Mao.