1. Chinese Revolution
How We Chose Our Topic Seeing as how the National History Day theme is Rights and Responsibilities in History, my partner and I were thinking about the rights and roles that other cultures and countries play besides the United States. ... Since Diana had previously done a project on China and its communist ways, we thought that this topic would be perfect for our history fair project. ... A friend of mine was Chinese therefore she was helpful when I asked her questions about how her country is. ... The couples in China live in a communist world. ... The restricted rights of family plannin...
Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. ... Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end of World War I. ... For China, it was a similar situation. ... In perhaps the most undocumented military incident in recent history, the Soviet Union and China came close to the brink of nuclear war. ... Indeed, the world could be a very different place, had there been more cooperation and uni...
Life in China In China life was pretty miserable for many years under the control of Mao Zedong. The future of China lay in the hands of the communist party. ... China then endured Mao's Great Leap forward, in which he believed that socialism could triumph over capitalism or more directly that the Chinese way was the only way. ... Deng Xiaoping also had an impact on China after the death of Mao Zedong, and I believe his efforts to help change China were effective. ... National independence and global interdependence became part of the post-war history of Asia. ...
But despite the political divisions riddled through its government, the U.S. commands a great deal of influence thanks to its history, its stability, its strong democratic tradition, and its current military and geopolitical influence. ... Since its transition from a command-based communist economy, China's growth has been stratospheric. In 2012, China was the world's second-largest economy, right behind the U.S. However, Chinese growth has been more sluggish in recent years: China is highly dependent upon the U.S. and European markets as sources of exports, and these economies have ...
Why Communism Is a Failure Communism throughout history has been a failure. The Soviet Union was communist and failed, as a matter of fact, even communism in present day country's, such as China, is deteriorating. ... Actually, almost every who has tried to have a communist government country (Cuba, North Korea, The Soviet Union and China), ends up with a totalitarian government. ...
History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. ... Cuba and China aided Congolese rebels. ... North Vietnam has been backed by Soviet Union and China. ... "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. ... Introductory Essay to Vietnam: A Television History. ...
The main sources that will be used in reference are Mao TseTung and China, Mao's China and After, and China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy. ... China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy was written by John G. ... Gurley does an excellent job of breaking down China's economy. ... Meisner is currently the Harvey Goldberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. ... Overall, this would serve to initiate China's economic revival. ...
Nationalism forges together a sense of people hood or belongingness based on common history, ancestry, culture, language or religion. ... The civil war of the year 1918 has been considered as one of the darkest periods in the history of independent Finland. ...
What makes history knowledgeable is that its essence is Mind, and what produces history is the continuous struggle of Mind to realize itself in the perfect form" (Stumpf 365). This gives an idea about how history develops. ... According to Marx, the history of society is the history of class struggles. ... China is a good example to see the failings of communism. "In China people are starving while the government continues to grow. ...
We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...
When we were attempting to stop Japanese aggression in China, Stalin and his comrades were not deemed to be "evil", at least not when wee needed his help. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ...
The Americans see it as a blemish upon their history because they couldn't decisively get the victory that they wanted, but the Vietnamese people have not gotten the life that they thought independence would bring them either. ... They are slowly moving towards establishing relations not only with their other Southeast Asian neighbors by joining the ASEAN, but also have worked on their relations with China and the United States. ...
(Jezer 33) The integration of the fifties was one of the most pivotal points in United States history. ... (Jezer 102) Throughout the past fifty years in American history, the media has played larger and larger role in how we view our country and the world. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...
Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... The Vietnam War is also one of the longest fought wars in American history and it also cost the nation a great deal of "expenses", both in finances and body count, compared to other wars. ...
With the war going poorly in Korea and communist advances in Eastern Europe and in China, the American public was genuinely frightened about the possibilities of internal subversion. ... McCarthyism and its effects on a nation "McCarthyism" came into America's history at a moment when Americans felt an anxiety and dread about the future; McCarthy gave this apprehension the name of "communism". ...
Marxism was known as the scientific socialism or better known as Communism which stated that human history was determined by class warfare. ... Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic novels of Victor Hugo to the works of Charles Jean Marie Letourneau who was a Frenchman who attempted to analyze all of the world's history through the lens of his own radical political ideas. ...
Karl Marx introduced Marxism into the world because he believed that social standing was determined by money. Through creating such divisions as the upper, middle, and lower class, the theory of Marxism analyzes what ways capitalism can be used against the people. In the book The Grapes of Wrath wri...