had to stop this. Undermine Communism - - NSC 68 (April 1950) recommended that the US abandon ’containment’ and start to ’roll back’ Communism. Cold War - Truman and Stalin were in a battle for world domination – Korea was a ‘war at arm’s length’. - Kim Il Sung - got Stalin’s and Mao tse Tung’s agreement to attack South Korea. Syngman Rhee - (1950) – boasted he would attack North Korea – gave an excuse. Events (5 phases) By June 1950 -
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Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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carnality‚ destroying other people without question just so another zero is added to the paycheck. Another example of greed would be the coveting of power. Emperors from the past such as Napoleon Bonaparte all the way to recent dictators such as Joseph Stalin are perfect examples of men who want power. These two men had one main goal: to unite the globe under one main concept and to rule everyone. Napoleon Bonaparte started out as a Jacobin‚ member of a radical political party of the time aimed to bring
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took place in the People’s Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong‚ then Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ its stated goal was to preserve ’true’ Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society‚ and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China
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throughout Eurasia. After the Second World War‚ the Communist party of China takes over and in 1949‚ Mao Zedong is put in place as the first communist leader of China (Caplan). The communist party created many changes in the continent of Asia‚ such as communism spreading to other parts of Asia such as Vietnam and Cambodia. After Stalin’s death‚ Mao Zedong starts to become more like Stalin. In 1958‚ Mao starts a program called the Great Leap Forward‚ which was an aggressive plan to move poor farmers
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throughout the world was obvious; it gained control of North Korea after the end of Japan’s Imperialist rule with the end of the Second World War. Stalin had Mao as a new ally with China’s conversion to communism in 1950‚ and this brought to him a great advantage. The Sino-Soviet Treaty in 1950 ensured that along with gaining a communist neighbor‚ Stalin could be given support by the Chinese in the form of supplies‚ tactics and troops if he decided to invade South Korea in the hopes of spreading communism
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American National Security Council recommended that America start ’rolling back’ Communism. Thirdly‚ Truman realised the USA was in a competition for world domination with the USSR. Russia went to war because Stalin wanted Communism to grow. In 1949‚ Kim Il Sung persuaded Stalin and Mao Tse Tung to support an invasion of South Korea. In 1950‚ Syngman Rhee threatened to attack North Korea. It was an excuse – the trigger for war: the NKPA invaded South Korea The underlying reason that
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and the Soviet Union were never in a completely stable relationship. World War II had both nations working together‚ but partly only because Germany was a common enemy of them both. Roosevelt did not agree with communism‚ but would work alongside Stalin in order to stop a bigger issue‚ the Nazis. By helping each other out‚ they became part of the Big Three along with Britain. However‚ even working together wouldn’t resolve the differences between the two nations. Tensions and suspicions between the
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what Nikita Khrushchev was referred to as by communist such as Mao Zedong. After the death of Joseph Stalin‚ Khrushchev took power of the Soviet Union to change the whole economic plan of Russia from the Marxist-Leninism principles to Capitalist principles. Mao and the Stalin supporters of the Communist Party of China did not support the changes that were made in because it could affect the movement in the communist direction that Mao was headed in with the
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and Revolution in China (Armonk‚ East Gate‚ 2004) P. Bailey‚ China in the Twentieth Century (Oxford‚ Blackwells 1988) S.Schram‚ The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung (Cambridge‚ Cambridge University Press‚ 1989) William A Joseph‚ Christine PW Wong and David Zweig‚ New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution (Harvard‚ Harvard University Press‚ 1991) Phillip Short‚ Mao: A Life (John Murray‚ 1999) Maurice Meisner‚ Mao’s China and after: a History of the People’s Republic of China (New York‚ The Free Press‚ 1999)
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