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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
3,359 words
On October 16, 1934, 100 000 Chinese Communist
troops set out on a 6, 000 mile trek from their
base in Kiangsi. 1 This trek, later to be known as
the Long March, began after Chiang Kai-shek and
his Nationalist armies (the Kuomintang) frustrated
the Communist organization in Southeast China. The
Long March was a difficult journey; approximately
90, 000 men and women died before it was over. 2
However, communism was not eliminated in China.
This paper argues that the Long March galvanized
commitme...
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Peoples Republic Of China Rank And File
1,926 words
... rea singly disturbed by Japanese incursions in
the north. In the public mind, the CCP knew what
their problems were and were, more importantly,
prepared to do something about the situation.
Therefore, the Second World War was a useful
opportunity, where they showed their efficient
guerilla warfare under Mao's firm leadership. More
and more peasants became actively resistant,
because of the Japanese atrocities. As a result of
the weakness or absence of local notables, the
communists were able...
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Von Papen Bolshevik Revolution
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ter> Why, by 1934, had the Nazis benefited more
than the Communists from the shortcomings of the
Weimar Republic? Adolf Hitler, head of
the NSDAP, became Chancellor of Germany on the 30
th January 1933. Following the legal revolution of
the following months and President Hindenburg's
death on the 2 nd August 1934, Hitler made himself
Fhrer and Reichskanzler. The Nazi revolution was
complete and Germany was subject to a dictatorship
of the extreme political right. As Ian Kershaw
explain...
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Mao Tse Tung Chinese Communist Party
1,230 words
... iet trained officers whose conventional
tactics failed miserably. The main goal of the
Communist strategy was to reduce the numbers of
the Kuomintang troops. They were not concerned
with holding specific geographical areas. This
strategy allowed the Communists the be more
flexible in their attacks. Mao Tse Tung stated
that the Americans and Nationalists would never be
able to understand the guerrilla warfare tactics,
since the only way guerrilla warfare can succeed
is if the army has the sup...
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Put An End 20 Th Century
2,463 words
Many people all over the world look for an outlet
for which they can improve their quality of life.
They strive to find the means of transforming
their dreams into reality. Communism, to people
everywhere, has offered the means for transforming
the dream of economic equality into reality,
throughout history. Communism, however, like
various other political and economic movements in
the history of man, has become a distant
realization. Communism is a political and economic
movement brought out to...
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Communist Manifesto Marx Predicted
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Chapter 1 Summary: Bourgeois and Proletarians The
Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's famous
generalization that the history of all hitherto
existing society is the history of class struggles
(79). Marx describes these classes in terms of
binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor,
the other as oppressed. While human societies have
traditionally been organized according to complex,
multi-member class hierarchies, the demise of
feudalism affected by the French Revolution has
brought about...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
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Why were the Communists able to come to power in
China? The Communists were able to come to power
principally because of the policies and actions
used by the Guomindang of which the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party) took advantage. However in
addition to this, there were also significant
factors such as the conditions during the
beginning of the twentieth century complications
in the republic China and the Japanese War (1937 -
45), which led to the vulnerability and
insufficiency of the GMD during t...
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Percent Of The Vote Von Papen
2,854 words
In 1930, Germany's manufacturing had fallen 17 %
from that 1927 level. Bankruptcies were
increasing, unemployment was rising and farmers
were hurting. Some in the middle class feared
sliding into the lower class. And some in the
middle class blamed the economic decline on
unemployed people being unwilling to work. In
1930, the parliamentary coalition that governed
Germany fell apart, and new elections were held.
The biggest winner in these elections was Adolf
Hitlers National Socialist Party. Fr...
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Second World War Communist Threat
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One Red Scare RED SCARE One evening in 1950 a
Houston couple entered a Chinese restaurant. The
woman, a radio writer, wanted the proprietor? s
help in producing a program on recent Chinese
history. Overhearing their conversation, a nearby
man rushed out, phoned the police, and informed
them that people were talking Communism. The
couple was immediately arrested and jailed for 14
hours before the police concluded they had no
case. At about the same time a policeman in
Wheeling, West Virginia, dis...
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Hitler Van Der
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1. Rudolf Diels, who was the head of the Prussian
political police at the time of the fire, wrote
source A. In his account of events, he explains
that Van Der Lubbe was caught red handed at the
incident, and after questioning Van Der Lubbe he
believed that the suspect was alone and there was
no evidence that other people could have been
involved, even other communists. During the trial
of Van Der Lubbe in 1933, he openly confessed to
setting fire to the building, but denied that he
had been help...
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Communist Party Joseph Mccarthy
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Prologue Long before Harry S. Truman made the
commitment to contain communism, long before the
country had come to know the name Joseph McCarthy,
the concept of the Red Scare was already a reality
in Washington state. Communists were a more
powerful presence in Washington than in most other
states. In fact, the Populist and Progressive
movements received a great deal of support from
the state s large Socialist Party, and as a result
were very strong during the turn of the century.
Because of the...
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