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
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In the aftermath of World War II‚ countries such as India‚ Vietnam‚ Cuba‚ China‚ and Ghana had independence movements to change who was in power. The changes that had come were compared to a raging hurricane that the old orders could not stand against. As a result of this‚ the people who had been exploited revolted against their governments who had kept them in subjection. The communist dictators of Cuba‚ Fidel Castro‚ and China‚ Mao Zedong‚ lead revolutions to overthrow their governments and
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and Western motifs. One of Taiwan ’s greatest attractions is the National Palace Museum‚ which houses over 650‚000 pieces of Chinese bronze‚ jade‚ calligraphy‚ painting‚ and porcelain. This collection was moved from the mainland in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek ’s administration fled to Taiwan. The collection is so extensive that only 1% is on display at any one time. * Education- Taiwan has an extensive higher education system with more than 100 institutions of higher learning. Each year over
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The twentieth century was a time of great change. There were peaks and valleys. Good times and bad times. Prosperity and famine. Life and death. A major factor in this rollercoaster was the constantly evolving leadership of the in countries of power. Although new the technologies developed solved many everyday problems‚ extreme radical political ideologies were still a major issue. Three leaders‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Joseph Stalin‚ and Mao Tse-Tung‚ were notorious for their harsh policies in the twentieth
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negotiated settlement of the Korean War in July 1953. According to him it proved that the threat of massive retaliation or a "a bigger bang for a buck" could work. It is true that America let it slip that atomic weapons being placed in Okinawa‚ that Chiang Kai-shek was being permitted to attempt attacks on the Chinese mainland‚ and that Nehru was being told to issue the Chinese with an ultimatium. This was the widely spread perception by the Presidential administration at the time and the view that gained
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The Great Chinese Revolution Stage 2: Socialist Revolution 1949 -1953 Big Ideas of the Triumph of the Chinese Communist Party and its Foreign Relations Idea #1 Events in China were dramatically affected by the Second World War in Asia and the tensions of the early Cold War. Idea #2 The Chinese Civil war was both lost by the GMD and won by the CCP. Idea #3 Mao Zedong viewed his victory in October of 1949 as the completion of the first step in a two-step process to transform Chinese society
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Chapter 29 Reading Questions What effects did World War I and the Treaty of Versailles have on Europe? World War I left European countries with huge debts and decreased amounts of land for crop production. The massive loss of life due to the war massively decreased the European workforce and forced European economies to rely on imports from settler societies and the U.S. Additional economic pressures placed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles made the political situation there particularly
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After World War II‚ the Soviet Union gained East Germany from the Treaty of Versailles‚ allowing communism to spread to other countries and creating the Iron Curtain. The expanding influence of communism became a threat to the United States and their values during the Cold War‚ when Vietnam became a proxy war to contain communism in the First Indochina War. Fowler‚ a non-intervening British reporter living in Vietnam‚ meets Pyle of the Economic Attache‚ representing the United States to aid French
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control of territory in Asia beginning in the 1930s. The status of the territories Japan gained before and during World War II was the subject of the Cairo Conference held in Egypt in November 1943. The Allied leaders at the conference included Chiang Kai-shek from China‚ U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt‚ and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Postwar Korea When Stalin declared war on Japan during the last days of World War II‚ he moved his troops quickly to invade Manchuria and the Kurile
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Genocide Research Project Questions and Instructions Research Reminders * Each student must answer all questions. * Record references for all information used to answer the questions. (copy and paste to a word document or save to your H: drive or print a copy) * Only research will be conducted today. You will not work on your presentation until all research is completed. * You must get information from 9 sources‚ most from Galileo. * In Galileo‚ select History References and
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