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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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League Of Nations Treaty Of Versailles
832 words4. The hopes and dreams of the League of Nation were quite realistic, although they simply rushed into them to fast. First of all, they tried to maintain the Treaty of Versailles. This frustrated Germany from the start, because they felt as though their honor was robbed from them. Later on, the League did not even notice the country reassembling their military troops, something the treaty outlawed. Trying to keep peace between Germany and the rest of the world was a realistic goal, but they simp...
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December 7 1941 Attack On Pearl
1,054 wordsWorld War Two was well under way when the Japanese bombed Pearl Habor. It came as a shock to many and is a very reminiscent incident. The event that took place on December 7, 1941 has and always will be a very significant event in American and world history. It shaped the way of the war and left a huge impact on society. Just the name Pearl Harbor brings to mind the infamous day when the United States were forced into World War Two. During the 20 s Japan suffered greatly due to industrial overca...
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Chiang Kai Shek State Owned Enterprises
1,914 wordsFor most of its 3, 500 years of history, China led the world in agriculture, crafts and science, then fell behind in the 19 th century when the Industrial Revolution gave the West clear superiority in military and economic affairs. In the first half of the 20 th century, China continued to suffer from major famines, civil unrest, military defeat, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established a dictatorship that, while ensuring China's autonomy, imposed s...
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Japan Vs United States
295 wordsJapan had a goal of making an empire called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This empire would serve the economic needs of Japan. This huge empire would stretch from Manchuria in the north to Australia in the south. It was similar to Hitler's dream of Europe filled with the Aryan race. To start this plan, Japan took over China's northeastern province, Manchuria. The war between China and Japan went on for three years. Japan's supply of oil, iron, rubber, and tin were low. The only way...
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Britain And France Treaty Of Versailles
1,115 words... m loans that could be withdrawn at any time. The problem for Germany came with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929... America; Thousands of companies lost millions and there was a sudden rush of people trying to withdraw their savings. The banks, who couldn't cope with this, withdrew their German loans which caused thousands of new and vulnerable German businesses to go bankrupt, 30 % unemployment, poverty, homelessness and starvation. In Germany's abysmal position, people began to look fo...
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Chiang Kai Shek Communist Influence
1,946 words... india, 1866 - 1925), a republican and anti-Qing activist who became increasingly popular among the overseas Chinese and Chinese students abroad, especially in Japan. In 1905 Sun founded the Tongmeng Hui (or United League) in Tokyo with Huang Xing (1874 - 1916), a popular leader of the Chinese revolutionary movement in Japan, as his deputy. This movement, generously supported by overseas Chinese funds, also gained political support with regional military officers and some of the reformers who...
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Trans Siberian Moscow Vladivostok Route
407 wordsTrans-Siberian Railroad, the greater part of the rail route from Moscow through the Siberian steppes to the pacific port of Vladivostok. Its serious planning began in the 1890 s, motivated partly by military ambitions, but chiefly by eagerness to colonize the then virgin but cultivable lands in the east, which would relieve rural overpopulation in European Russia, and to tap their mineral resources. The driving force in the decision to build was Tsar Alexander HI. By 1890 the railway had reached...
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Britain And France British And French
1,098 wordsAt the end of World War I the victorious nations formed the League of Nations for the purpose of airing international disputes, and of mobilizing its members for a collective effort to keep the peace in the event of aggression by any nation against another or of a breach of the peace treaties. The United States, imbued with isolationism, did not become a member. The League failed in its first test. In 1931 the Japanese, using as an excuse the explosion of a small bomb under a section of track of...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,254 wordsWord Count: 4067 Abstract The Chinese Civil War, which took place from the end of World War II up to October 1, 1949, directly led to the creation of the Peoples Republic of China, the worlds most populous communist nation. The purpose of this essay is to explain why the Chinese Communist Party was able to achieve victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War. In this paper, the role of international powers, namely the Soviet Union and the United States, Kuomintang policy, and Chinese Com...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,230 words... arty. The aid that the Chinese Communists received was limited. It may be argued that to Soviets most important aid to the Chinese Communists was delaying the arrival of the Nationalists to Manchuria for six weeks. The Soviets had their own goals in Manchuria, the most industrially developed area of China. The Soviets dismantled industrial plants and shipped them back into the Soviet Union. The Soviet seizure of industrial materials in Manchuria hindered the progress of the Chinese Communist...
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Ch Ing Northern China
696 wordsHistory of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. Empress Cixi was born on November 29, 1835. Her clan name was Yehonala. Like the emperor and most other prominent people in China at that time, Yehonala and her family were Manchu, and had little contact with Chinese people. Cixi was a strong ruler who suppressed many rebellions, but she ...
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Ming Dynasty And Part 2
1,555 words... of the forgotten City of Beijing. And even nowadays the city amazes a great number of visitors from the whole world. Yongle was a sponsor of legendary expeditions of Admiral Zheng He. All these positive moments are also remembered by Asians and Africans. Yongle strengthened the power of the absolutist empire and extended his influence upon Vietnam, Korea and Japan. He calmed down the conflict between China and Mongolia. And due to him the empire recovered. (Pi-Chung Hsu 4) Yongle enable the ...
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Treaty Of Versailles Britain And France
1,552 wordsTreaty of Versailles On June 28 1914, the war had started with the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. On 28 June 1919, exactly five years and about 9 million dead soldiers later, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by defeated Germany and in my opinion that was historical event of great importance that shaped the post-war Europe. Germany's nose was in the dirt and the allies meant to keep it there. At the treaty of Versailles, Germany and the other Central powers agreed to repay e...
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Mao Tse Tung Chiang Kai Shek
2,077 wordsCommunist China and Mao Tse-tung A look into its introduction to Communism and the Man who led the DONNY CAMPBELL Dr. UMOETTE HISTORY OF THE FAR EAST MAY 3 rd 199 The Roots of Communist China To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich? . That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered Chinas traditional relationship wi...
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Soviet Socialist Republics Russian Orthodox Church
1,873 wordsThere were no prospects for democracy in Russian in 1914. Tsar Nicholas II believed he had the god-given right to rule over his country absolutely. His power to govern was reinforced by the strongest institutions in Russia, The Orthodox Church, The Army, and the peasant class. Even the Tsar s opposition unwittingly aided him in quashing all hope for democracy. While there were some small democratic institutions, they only helped reinforce the Tsar s belief that the people could never govern them...
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United States Figured States Figured War
295 wordsJapan had a goal of making an empire called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This empire would serve the economic needs of Japan. This huge empire would stretch from Manchuria in the north to Australia in the south. It was similar to Hitlers dream of Europe filled with the Aryan race. To start this plan, Japan took over Chinas northeastern province, Manchuria. The war between China and Japan went on for three years. Japans supply of oil, iron, rubber, and tin were low. The only way th...
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Kim Il Sung Negative Consequences
1,470 wordsKim Il Sung was the pseudonym for Kim Song Ju. He was born on April 15, 1912, at Mangyongdae, Pyongyang, to a poor peasant family. He and his family emigrated to Manchuria in the 1920 s like many Korean families did at the time. His family was a most patriotic and revolutionary one, and fought for many generations, from the beginning of the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean people for the independence of the country. He grew up receiving his revolutionary education at home, and acquiri...
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