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The spread of communism
Containment was first designed for Europe, but its hardest tests came in Asia. This topic follows the communist victory in China, the division of Korea and Vietnam, and Mao Zedong's campaigns to remake Chinese society.
In this topic
- Asia becomes the test
- Civil war in China
- Worked example: why did the communists win?
- The new People's Republic
- Korea and the wider Asian front
- Vietnam: from French war to divided land
- Worked example: Ho Chi Minh's declaration
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Cultural Revolution
- A divided communist world
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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