Unit 12: Paper 3 — History of Asia and Oceania (HL)
Topic 12.8: Emergence of Modern China (1910–1949) Questions
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The Second Sino-Japanese War began in July 1937 after a clash between Chinese and Japanese troops at which location?
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Which event directly led to the abdication of the last Qing emperor, Puyi, in February 1912?
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Which pairing correctly names two founders of the Chinese Communist Party, established at its First Congress in Shanghai in July 1921?
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What was the Japanese 'Three Alls' (sanguang) policy applied in northern China from around 1940?
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Approximately how far did CCP forces travel during the Long March of 1934–35, retreating from the Jiangxi Soviet to the new base at Yan'an?
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What immediate news triggered the May Fourth Movement of 1919?
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At which meeting during the Long March, held in January 1935, did Mao Zedong win a decisive power struggle to become the CCP's leading figure?
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Which general orchestrated the kidnapping of Jiang Jieshi in December 1936, forcing him to agree to a united front against Japan?
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Sun Yixian's Three Principles of the People consisted of nationalism, democracy, and which third principle?
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What did Japan's Twenty-One Demands of January 1915 seek from China?
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Which event did Jiang Jieshi launch in 1926 with the stated aim of unifying China by defeating the northern warlords?
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In April 1927, Jiang Jieshi's forces, working with the Green Gang criminal syndicate, turned violently on their former communist allies in which city?
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What pretext did the Japanese Kwantung Army use in September 1931 to justify its invasion of Manchuria?
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Approximately how many Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed by Japanese troops in Nanjing over about six weeks from December 1937?
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Which decisive CCP military campaign of 1948-49 destroyed the Guomindang's best remaining armies shortly before the founding of the People's Republic of China?
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Evaluate the claim that between 1926 and 1937, Jiang Jieshi's Guomindang lost the contest for national legitimacy to the Chinese Communist Party primarily through its own mistakes, rather than through Communist strengths.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Nanjing Decade (1927–37) represented a genuine success for Jiang Jieshi's government?
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Evaluate the claim that Jiang Jieshi's policy of 'first internal pacification, then external resistance' after the 1931 Japanese seizure of Manchuria was a rational strategic choice rather than a betrayal of Chinese nationalism.
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Discuss the view that the Shanghai Massacre of April 1927 was the single most important turning point in the rise of Chinese communism between 1926 and 1937.
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To what extent do you agree that the Long March of 1934–35 should be judged a defeat for the Chinese Communist Party rather than a foundation for its eventual victory?
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