Essential Question: Did Mao's leadership benefit China?
PERIOD I
- Understanding goals: What did Mao do to unify China?
- Reasons for CCP victory in Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949
- Political Organisation
- Social/Economic Policies
- Military strategies/morale
- Agarian Reforms
- 5-Year Plans for Industry
- Anti-Rightists Movement
- Review: Great Leap Forward video
- Notes: MWH.CHINAMAO.NOTES.pdf
- Understanding goals: Why did Mao introduce the Great Leap Forward?
- Sino-Soviet Split
- Industrialisation & agriculture production
- Fear of Rightists and Counter-revolutionaries
- Performances: Was the Great Leap Forward really a great leap forward?
- Students to examine the positive and negative outcomes of the Great Leap Forward.
- Construct a Living Graph
to place events from 1949-1958 and explain whether these events were beneficial to China. - Use your construction of the Living Graph to write your judgment to the question: Was the Great Leap Forward really a great leap forward?
