Industrialisation
What Industrialisation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The process that enabled the mass production of weapons, ensuring standardised parts and rapid supply, and that brought steam-powered transport.
The aim of the first Five-Year Plan to transform China into an industrial superpower, moving away from an agrarian economy.
Topics that use Industrialisation
- Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 1 The nature of warfare (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 32: Key topic 2: Economic policy, 1949–65 - 2 Industry and the Five-Year Plan, 1953–57 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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