Factional conflict
What Factional conflict means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The Red Guards fractured into rival factions, leading to the widening and radicalisation of violence that forced the PLA to intervene.
Bitter factionalism between Girondins and Jacobins was among the severe problems the National Convention immediately faced.
Topics that use Factional conflict
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The emergence and spread of the Terror, September 1792–1795 (AQA A-Level)
- 2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997 – The Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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