Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms

One lesson from a series of 28 on China in the 20th Century, the rise of Communism, the CCP, Mao’s influence and then Deng’s capitalist reforms. Each lesson comes with all the resources you need to teach it ‘out of the box’ including activities, worksheets, recap tasks, stretch and differentiated questions where appropriate – and each lesson comes with keywords and a revision slide and a writing homework exercise.

The 28 lessons are as follows:

1. China Intro
2. Causes of the Boxer Rebellion
3. Boxer Rebellion Events & Consequences
4. 1911 Revolution
5. May 4th Movement
6. Sun Yat-Sen
7. Recap Lesson
8. United Front
9. Northern Expedition
10. Recap lesson
11. Causes of the Long March
12. Consequences of the Long March
13. Second Sino-Japanese War
14. Chinese Civil War
15. Why was the CCP victorious in the Civil War?
16. CCP’s Agricultural Reforms
17. The Great Famine
18. The Great Leap Forward
19. Women in Mao’s China
20. Political Control in Mao’s China
21. USSR & China
22. Causes of the Cultural Revolution
23. Key Features of the Cultural Revolution
24. Consequences of the Cultural Revolution
25. The Sino-Soviet Split
26. The Gang of Four
27. Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms
28. Tiananmen Square

These lessons have been taught successfully for many years at a top international school and are very easily editable for your own students (they’d also work very easily without any editing!)

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