In 1949, Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army lead the Communists to victory in a civil war against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. ... In 1958, Mao began the Great Leap Forward. ... Mao, in the end wants to restore peace with the United States and current President Richard Nixon. ...
All the while, Mao Zedong, emperor of Communist china, began to get nervous about the rapidly advancing and confident UN soldiers. ... To protect the North Korean border, Mao sends 500,000 troops in Manchaun to backup North Korean troops. ... Mao succeeded in driving all US troops below the 38th parallel before Christmas. Inspired by his victory, Mao decides to take offensive and push all western forces out of Korea for good. ... At the same time, Mao made the same mistake MacArthur had by moving his army too far, too fast, stretching his supply lines. ...
During last 50 years of development, the nuclear bomb, as the ultimate weapon became the peacekeeping force on the earth. The nuclear bomb was developed in Manhattan project during the WW II and was successfully tested in the New Mexico on July 16 1945. At this point started the change of nuclear ...
The Korean War began on June 25th, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. On June 27th, 1950, American United Nations forces intervened to stop the advance. This action has positively and negatively affected both the United States and Korea. Deciding to aid South Korea in the Korean War has dras...
Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. The young Iosif was the only one of their children to survive childhood. Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his fam...
