WORLD WAR ONE FIRSTS First war to be fought on 3 continents. First industrialised conflict. First use of chlorine & mustard gas. First use of the flame thrower. First tank battle. First use of mass airplanes. First use of x-ray in the military. First use of a blood bank. First use of guide dogs by blinded soldiers. First four-star general‚ General John J. Pershing First use of trillion in estimating war costs. First commissioning of war art for propaganda. First use
Premium World War II Communism Soviet Union
Elpidio Quirino Philippine President (1948-1953) 6th President of the Republic of the Philippines Vice-President: Fernando H. Lopez Assumed the remaining term & re-elected From The liberal party (LP) Also known as "apo lakay QUIRINO‚ ELPIDIO [Quirino‚ Elpidio] ‚ 1890-1956‚ Filipino statesman‚ b. Ilocos Sur prov.‚ Luzon. After he was admitted (1915) to the bar he became a law clerk in the Philippine senate. For many years he was Manual Quezon ’s political aide. Quirino was elected (1919)
Premium Philippines
In another words‚ witnesses like Fu Gui and his fellows see things historians can not find in any document. Both books describe what happened in Civil War‚ when Chiang Kai-shek assigned "non-Manchurians to key posts…in Heilongjiang‚ Jilin and Liaoning" (Spence 495). Many officials he assigned "abused their powers" (Spence 495) and forced random people from the streets into troops. Yet the historical description stopped
Premium History Historian Psychology
Name__________________________________________ Per____ Date_____________________ Chapter 28 Study Guide- Crisis of Imperial Order 1900-1929 Directions: Using complete sentences‚ answer the following questions. Use the question as the stem of your response. Page numbers provided. 1. Who fired the shots that ignited WWI? p.736 2. Give at least one example of Europeans meddling in Ottoman affairs. p.736-7 3. In what 3 empires/regions was nationalism a dividing force? p.738 4. List the members
Premium World War I Ottoman Empire World War II
In 1836‚ the Chinese government undertook a major policy review of the opium trade. Lin Zexu volunteered to take on the task of suppressing opium. In March 1839‚ he became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton‚ where he ordered the foreign traders to surrender their opium stock. He confined the British to the Canton Factories and cut off their supplies. Chief Superintendent of Trade‚ Charles Elliot‚ complied with Lin’s demands in order to secure a safe exit for the British‚ with the costs involved
Premium British Empire World War II China
III. Rule of Moderate (Second stage of Revolution) #1- Chiang Kai-shek’s coup marks the desertion of the national bourgeoisie from the revolution‚ which is the clash (emergence) of a Centre a national counter-revolution‚ and the conclusion of a deal between the Kuomintang Rights and the imperialists against the Chinese revolution.. - Chiang Kai-shek’s coup signifies that in South China there will now be two camps‚ two governments‚ two armies‚ two Centre -- the revolutionary Centre in Wuhan and
Free Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin Mao Zedong
Nicholas Lima Mr. Politelli Eastern civilization December 2 2012 Chinas Century of Humiliation China had thousands of years of greatness to only be shamefully humiliated in what is called Chinas century of humiliation. The years of humiliation all began during the Opium wars and the treaties of Nanking that led into the Sino-Japanese war‚ and even into World War II. From 1840 to 1850 the rise of opium smuggling and the treaties of Nanking had led to the beginning of the humiliation and led
Premium World War II China Empire of Japan
The one china principle: economic perspective Introduction China has an exceptional position the today world’s economy. There are several reasons for what makes the Chinese economy unique. These are the rapid growth rate‚ the characteristics of the Chinese economy and how china’s economic reforms resulted in increased productivity despite government control. If that is so‚ then what is the need of Chinese authorities to re-evaluate their economic growth (rebalancing)? Hu and Khan‚ 1997 analysed
Premium People's Republic of China Republic of China
The history of the 20th century can be defined by the biographies of six men: Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Mao Tse Tung‚ and Josef Stalin. Each of these men had a lasting significant involvement in world affairs. This essay will focus on the significance each individual had on the ideologies of Democracy and Totalitarianism. Four of the six individuals were leaders of a totalitarianistic state‚ and three of these led a communist country. Also four of
Free Soviet Union World War II Communism
China 1900 – 2000 The Fall of the Qing Dynasty (1900-1912) Most of the enemies of the Manchu Empire after the nineteenth century‚ were led by Sun Yatsen‚ a good-looking 34 year old doctor. Doctor Sun Yatsen had been educated in an American school in Hawaii and therefore he was Christian. He had spent many years of his life traveling the world. He saw how advanced technologically other countries were and realized how weak China was. He found that the only way for China to come out of its stall
Premium China Qing Dynasty Republic of China