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http://teachwar.wordpress.com/resources/war-justifications-archive/chinese-civil-war-1945/
Zhang Yimou's "To Live"
Pearson's worksheets re. the Chinese Civil War
ESSAY TOPIC - The Chinese Civil War 1927-37 and 1946-49
China: A Century of Revolution [1911-1949] Part 1.
China: A Century of Revolution [1949-1976] Part 2.
China: A Century of Revolution [1766 - 2011] Part 3.
China's Long March - 60 years on....
Mao's Long March Song
Lyrics to Mao's Long March Song
These essay questions are taken from a specimen paper available from the Online Curriculum Centre. Your essay test questions will be geared just to answer in response to the Chinese Civil War, so comparison questions will not be given for your first essay test. Please note the Green writing and crossed out sections, to indicate how the essay test has been altered to suit your current topic.
Ms. Cheney (22.01.14)
Topic 1 Causes, practices and effects of wars
1. Select two causes of the Second World War Chinese Civil War and show (a) how, and (b) why, they led to the outbreak
of war in 1939.
2. What do you understand by the term “limited war”? Explain in what ways one twentieth century war
could be called a limited war.
3. Assess the importance of air power (Guerilla warfare)in two wars (the Chinese Civil War), each chosen from a different region.
4. “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace.” Select one peace treaty and,
by examining its clauses, explain how the winners treated the losers, and if you agree with
the quotation.
5. What were the main results of two of the following: Chinese Civil War Iran–Iraq war, Falklands/Malvinas war, Nigerian Civil War, Spanish Civil War?
6. In what ways, and with what results, did the status of women change during, and in the decade
[ten years] following, one twentieth century war?
"To Live" - DVD by
"To Live" study guide and handoutsRare footage of the Nanking Massacre
Iris Chang - The Rape of Nanking
"To Live" courtesy of Sophia Grabowski
In conjunction with the worksheet use this web page to work out whether America was friendly of aggressive to China. Here are also some quotations from Mao which may be pertinent in relation to China and the US.
China's New Emperor
Madame Chiang Kai Shek
To help with confusing Chinese statistics, Skye found this site:
http://necrometrics.com/20c1m.htm#Nationalist
American insights into what it was like living and being in China during the Civil War -- see journalist insight video linked to this site.