History A-Level
Radicalisation and Violence
What Radicalisation and Violence means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The widening and radicalisation of campaigns, with factional violence escalating as the Red Guards fractured into rival factions.
Topics that use Radicalisation and Violence
- 2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997 – The Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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