{"id":122,"date":"2019-10-10T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2019-10-10T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:30:18","slug":"causes-and-effects-of-c20th-wars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/ibdp-history\/causes-and-effects-of-c20th-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"11. C20th Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Comparing and Contrasting the Causes of Civil Wars
<\/strong> Example Paper 2 Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Analyse the causes of two civil wars you have studied (from different regions).<\/li>
  2. Compare and contrast the causes of two civil wars (from different regions).<\/li>
  3. Examine the role of ideology in causing two civil wars (from different regions).<\/li>
  4. Analyse the economic and political causes of two civil wars (from different regions).
    For The Chinese & Spanish Civil Wars
    <\/strong> The causes are the same or similar for both regarding:
    \u2022 Socio-Economic – Both had weak \/ barely modernised economies
    Both states had divided rural and urban populations.
    Both states had rural populations frustrated with landlords.
    The Depression fostered division (ends PDR \/ helps save CCP)
    \u2022 Political – Both states had a history of weak \/ bad governing systems
    Old systems recently replaced with new unstable ones
    \u2022 Ideological – Serious ideological divides existed in both states
    \u2022 Foreign Intervention – Foreign political ideas divided both peoples
    USA (CH) & GE (SP) transported armies; kickstarted conflict
    But there were also somewhat or very different causes as follows:
    \u2022 Religious – A huge issue in Spain (China divided by economic\/class ideas)
    \u2022 Territory\/Regionalism – Secessionism was a major issue in Spain, but not in China
    \u2022 Military – The Spanish Army launched the coup\/catalyst, not politicians
    \u2022 Individuals – There was no Spanish equivalent to the dogmatic Chiang
    \u2022 Foreign Intervention – Foreign exploitation of China\u2019s economy caused much anger China had been invaded by Japan (saved\/strengthened CCP)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    Example Response:
    \u201cCompare and contrast the causes of two civil wars from two regions\u201d
    Intro: The Chinese Civil War (1946-49) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) had many similar causes, yet there were also considerable differences in their origins. Ideology was at the heart of both conflicts and foreign intervention was a key factor too. Conflict was also rooted
    in long-term economic issues in both countries. However, in China, personalities were arguably more important in causing conflict, contrasting with the role of institutions like the military in Spain. Finally, religion was a huge issue in Spain, but not so in China. Overall\u2026
    P1: Perhaps the most similar cause of both civil wars was ideology. In Spain, ideology was at the heart of the conflict\u2026 Similarly, ideology was the root cause of the conflict in China\u2026
    P2: Economic issues also underlay the conflict in both countries. In Spain, economic inequalities created divisions\u2026 In China, economic issues also led to sharp divisions\u2026 The Depression also had key impacts\u2026 Both states also had a history of bad governing systems\u2026
    These had recently been replaced with new unstable systems, creating room for extremists\u2026
    P3: Furthermore, both conflicts were arguably the result of foreign intervention. In China, the Japanese invasion\u2026 After WWII, the US transported Chiang\u2019s soldiers\u2026 Similarly, in Spain, Germany transported Franco\u2019s army from Morocco, without which the coup would not have survived to become a civil war\u2026 Ideological divides were rooted in foreign ideas in the first place\u2026 However, foreign intervention was arguably more important in\u2026
    P4: Nevertheless, there were considerable differences in the origins of the wars. In Spain, there was no one clear leader who precipitated the conflict: the forces and the ideologies they claimed to represent were more important. However, in China the actions of Chiang were crucial in understanding why the civil war broke out\u2026 Moreover, in Spain the civil war was initiated by the military, while in China\u2026
    P5: Finally, while religion was a major reason for Spain\u2019s civil war, it was not a huge issue inChina\u2026 Likewise, secessionism was a big issue in Spain, but not in China\u2026
    Conclusion: In conclusion, we can see that\u2026 Overall, in Spain it was felt that the traditional \u2018pillars\u2019 which supported the country were under threat whereas in China both sides involved were relatively new forces on the political scene. It could therefore be argued that the origins of the
    Spanish Civil War were heavily reactionary but in China the opposing sides were fighting for the heart of a new country<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}