1096. Spurred by the Mongol conquest of China‚ the northern Thai kingdoms grew in size and numbers‚ with Lanna Thai and Sukhothai becoming expecially important. Mengrai‚ a tribal leader who founded Lanna Thai‚ " A Million Rice Feilds"‚ named his Chiang Mai city which still today serves as a bastion of traditional Thai ways. Meanwhile sukhothai rose to preeminence under King Ramkhamhaeng who is thought to have invented the Thai writing system and established the basis of the Thai nation. By the
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The Inchon landing‚ on the 15th September 1950‚ was a great military success for the USA. It was a high risk strategy; there was a large tidal change‚ no beaches‚ and a high possibility that the Koreans would mine the area. MacArthur appointed Lieutenant General Edward Almond with the 1st Marine Division to spearhead the attack. The leader of North Korea‚ Kim Ill Sung‚ was taken completely by surprise and therefore no mines had been placed on the harbour‚ despite Mao (the Chinese leader) warning
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to lead the revolution. Also‚ Stalin feared Mao compete against him in the Communist world‚ so Stalin wanted a weak China and the USSR will then dominate Asia. He made his policies through self-interests. Thus‚ Stalin wanted Mao to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek instead of carrying out a revolution. Therefore Mao believed Stalin was not a true revolutionary. The Sino-Soviet Treaty Alliance is another example‚ which the Soviets acted through self-interest. The treaty‚ which was the first treaty between
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hope on the peasant militia. [87] The question was rendered moot when the Wuhan government expelled all communists from the KMT on 15 July. [87] The CMT founded the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army of China‚ better known as the "Red Army"‚ to battle Chiang. A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city of Nanchang on 1 August 1927 in what became known as the Nanchang Uprising; initially successful‚ they were forced into retreat after five days‚ marching south to Swatow‚ and from there
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IT/IS Kiosk Designing a Kiosk that Serves Team Charter Updated: 02/21/2006 Prepared by: Diana Wong Mei Leng Team Charter Chartering Group IT/IS Department Sponsor Jose Solera Program Manager Diana Wong Coach John Doe Team Ratification Date: WW8 Team Kickoff Date: WW9 Foundation Elements Project Objective Project Description Develop and implement a real-time self-service approach to equip UTP IT/IS Faculty and Current and Prospective Students to improve customer services‚ expand customer
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Entry: Sun Yet-Sen Sun Yet-Sen was known as a political and a revolutionary in Chinese history. He is considered to be the co-founder of the Kuomintang and is said to be the father of modern China. Sun Yet-Sen was of the major contributors in the effort to abolish the Qing Dynasty and served as the first president of the Republic of China in 1912. His doctrine was written in “The Three Principles of The People”‚ which was a philosophical combination of democracy‚ socialism‚ and nationalism. Although
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maintain its existing colonies. Therefore‚ the suggestion to maintain another quasi colony was not welcomed by Britain. After that‚ the issue of Korea was raised again at the Cairo Conference in November 1943. Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met and resolved to give independence to Korea. Consequently‚ they announced that “in due course Korea shall become free and independent”. However‚ the expression “in due course” was vague and inconclusive. The fact that there was neither
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Yunfang YANG S2774352 Pac 10 China in Transformation 1900-1949 Note: special consideration granted for 1-week extension. Number: 14998. Question: “In political‚ culture and social terms the May fourth movement was far more important than the 1911 revolution”. Discuss. China made its modernisation through revolutions. There are two historical event scholars believes can be threat as milestone of the transformation: 1911 Xinhai revolution‚ which brings an end to the two thousand year of monarchy;
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Davon Holmes 10/10/2012 Sociology China China is the world’s most populated country with the population of 1.3 billion people. Since there were so many people in China they had to think about a way to control population so this is where the one-child policy was made. It officially restricts married‚ urban couples to having only one child‚ while allowing exemptions for several cases‚ including twins. This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979. The policy
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