Genocide‚ or the mass killing of a nationality or ethnic‚ is a common and relatively frequent event in the history of mankind. Pol Pot‚ born Saloth Sar‚ was a leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia‚ and was responsible for the Cambodian Genocide. He came to power in a state of unrest and‚ much like Adolf Hitler‚ won the support of his people with his radical new proposals and ideas. He proposed an idea to implement an agrarian utopia‚ which was inspired by the Maoist principles he had seen in China
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Entry into politics Main article: Adolf Hitler’s political views After World War I‚ Hitler returned to Munich.[75] Having no formal education and career prospects‚ he tried to remain in the army for as long as possible.[76] In July 1919 he was appointed Verbindungsmann (intelligence agent) of an Aufklärungskommando (reconnaissance commando) of the Reichswehr‚ to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German Workers’ Party (DAP). While monitoring the activities of the DAP‚ Hitler became
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Did Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Play an Important Role in the Westernization of China? Mao Zedong (1949) has ever said in On the People Democratic Dictatorship that‚ “From the time of China’s defeat in the Opium War of 1840‚ Chinese progressives went through untold hardships in their quest for truth from the Western countries. Hong Xiuquan‚ Kang Youwei‚ Yan Fu and Sun Yat-sen were representative of those who had looked to the West for truth before the Communist Party of China was born.” However
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self-sufficient system. Trade was usually narrow to gain only goods that could not achieve in China. China theories made the economy comparably ineffective‚ inactive‚ by reason of many prospects of the economy of their centralized government. After the death of Mao in 1978 China decided to disconnect its ties that it had with the soviet-style policies. The economy was then reformed‚ corresponding to the free market ethic and trade and investment of the United States. China intent is to‚ boost both economic growth
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China’s One-Child Policy: Was it a good idea? Most people want to have more than one child‚well that doesn’t happen in China.When Mao Zedong took power in 1949 he encouraged the people of China to have more children.Then in 1980 he enforced the one child policy due to a severe overpopulation (BGE).The one child policy was a bad idea for three reasons‚it was unnecessary‚it hurts the elderly and retirees‚ and it has a negative impact on women. One reason that the one child policy was a bad idea is
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The Causes of the Korean War‚ 1950-1953 Ohn Chang-Il Korea Military Academy ABSTRACT The causes of the Korean War (1950-1953) can be examined in two categories‚ ideological and political. Ideologically‚ the communist side‚ including the Soviet Union‚ China‚ and North Korea‚ desired to secure the Korean peninsula and incorporate it in a communist bloc. Politically‚ the Soviet Union considered the Korean peninsula in the light of Poland in Eastern Europe—as a springboard to attack Russia—and
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Ch 28: The Crisis of the Imperial Order‚ 1900–1929 | CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East | | A. The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans | 1. By the late nineteenth century the once-powerful Ottoman Empire was in decline and losing the outlying provinces closest to Europe. The European powers meddled in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire‚ sometimes in cooperation‚ at other times as rivals. 2. In reaction‚ the Young Turks conspired to force a constitution
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USA‚ 2000. Dalloz‚ J.‚ The War in Indo-China 1945–54‚ Gill and Macmillian‚ Dublin‚ 1990. Davidson‚ Lt. Gen. P.B.‚ (Retd)‚ Vietnam at War: The History: 1946–1975‚ Sidgewick and Jackson‚ London‚ 1989. Elliot-Bateman‚ M.‚ Defeat in the East: The Mark of Mao Tse Tung on War‚ Oxford University Press‚ London‚ 1967. Fall‚ B.B.‚ ‘Vo Nguyen Giap: Man and Myth’‚ in General V.N. Giap‚ People’s War People’s Army: The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped Countries‚ F.A. Praeger‚ New York‚ 1962
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Fox News” (England). In fact‚ what about the untruths those commentators of Fox News offer to their viewers such a commentator Glenn Beck‚ which falsely claimed that Anita Dunn worships her hero Mao Zedong. Anita Dunn is the White House communication director. Actually‚ Ms. Dunn really stated that Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa were her favorite philosophers. She did not refer to either as her hero. (England) Glenn Beck the host of Fox News‚ clearly speaks the
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NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN ASIA‚ AFRICA‚ AND LATIN AMERICA During the 1920s and 1930s‚ after the Great War and during the Great Depression‚ intellectuals and political activists in Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America challenged the ideological and economic underpinnings of European imperialism and neo-colonialism‚ as nationalist and anti-imperialist movements gained strength on each of these continents. * In Asia‚ Japan’s militarist leaders sought to build national strength through
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