iGCSE Edexcel history (B4) China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89

This is a series of lessons that covers Edexcel’s iGCSE history B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900-89.

Where printing is needed, this has been included as a separate document.
The lessons are squeezed into 25 lessons:

1.0 China in the 20th century
1.1 Boxer Uprising & late Qing Reforms
1.2 the causes, events, results of 1911 revolution (2.2020 Nov, a)
1.3 China under the Warlords
1.4 CCP, United Front, Soviet Union
1.5 Emergence of Chinese Communist Party
1.6 Northern Expedition, Shanghai mass (2b, June 2021, b)
2.1 The Long March (2r. June 2019 a)
2.2 War with Japan 1937-1945
2.3 Key features of the Civil War 1946-49 (2br. June 2022, b)
2.4 Cause of success (2b June 2021, Ci; 2br. June 2022, B)
3.1 Changes in agriculture (2r. June 2019; 2. 2020 Nov, b)
3.2 & 3.6 Changes in industry (2b June 2022, Cii)
3.3 Changes in the role of women (2b June 2022,a)
3.4 Political Changes
3.5 The Hundred Flowers Campaign
3.7 USSR influence (2b June 2022 Ci)
4.1 Causes of Cultural Revolution
4.2 Key features of the Cultural Revolution.
4.3 Impact of cultural revolution (2. 2020 Nov, Cii; 2br. June 2022, Cii)
4.4 Sino-Soviet split (2. 2020 Nov, Ci)
5.1 The rise and fall of ‘Gang of Four’ (2b. Nov 2021, b)
5.2 Changes under Deng (2b June 2021, Cii; 2r Nov 2020 Cii; 2br June 2022)
5.3 Deng’s opposition (2b Nov 2021; 2. Nov 2020; 2r Nov 2020)
5.4 Student opposition and Tiananmen Sq 1986-89 (2b June 2021, a; 2b June 2022, b)

• You/ your students will need Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: Conflict, Crisis and Change: China, 1900–1989 Student Book (ISBN 978-0435185374) as many of the lessons use this textbook.

• Each lesson begins with knowledge recall that is self-assessed.

• Relevant past exam questions are included, with mark schemes, for each lesson. So, you will teach the lesson and, at the end of the lesson are past exam questions (where applicable).

• There is also a Personalised Learning Checklist (PLC) that breaks the specification down into its constituent parts and tracks what exam questions have been asked for each topic. This reveals what topics seem to be asked multiple times and allows students to practice those questions.