"What do the Chinese Communists want? ... They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. ... In Chinese eyes, this was a provoking and totally unwarranted interference in a purely Chinese affair. Because of this interference of USA in Chinese foreign affairs, China sees that the US stands in the way of her strategic goals . ... However, the Vietnam War ge...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... The evidence for Reisel's assertion was based upon information obtained from intelligence agencies in other Asian countries regarding joint Chinese-S...

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-Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. ... This seemed to be a trend for many aspects of Russian history. Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... The subject is also advantageous as at several points the Sino-Soviet histories overlap. ...

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According to Mandlebaum, the fate of the region has "for the last two centuries" depended "on the fate of three major powers--China, Japan and Russia, on the stability and tranquillity of their mutual relations." ... The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... First, China's centrality: China figures in nearly all of the triangles, not even the US affected Soviet policy to this degree. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union...

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Throughout history, we have been aware of the presence of totalitarian states such as: Nazi Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fascist Italy under Mussolini, and the People's Republic of China under Zedong. ... Zedong and Stalin led the communists in China and Russia. ... The establishment of totalitarian regimes in the course of history usually followed some sort of political and social upheaval. ... There have been many totalitarian states throughout the course of history including Germany, Italy, Russia, and China. ...

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As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. ... Dating back to the end of the American Revolution, interest in China was growing and a large trading vessel was shipped in hope for a large flourishing trade with China. ... After China was passed under Communist control in 1949, the Marshall Plan was willing to give Nationalist China 400 million dollars for economic and military aid to fight off the Communists (Ferrell 113). ... Mainland China, which bordered the Soviet Union, was mostly Nationalist (Ferrell 114). In fear of China turning imperialistic and eventually...

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Deng Xiaoping got away from Mao Tse-tung and came up with the second revolution, this dealt with reforming China's declining economy system and giving them the opportunity of improving and saving such damaged economy. As well as permitting China to open out to the world with an improved and reformed economic system. ... In the late 1900s, the reform included efforts to boost foreign trade through the establishment of about twelve different state companies that controlled imports and exports along China's southern coastlines. ... Even though both reforms seemed to have potential and e...

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The Vietnam War is called by many today to be one of the only wars in the history of the United States that they ever been defeated in. ... After the War, the US pumped billions of dollars back into the Japanese economy because it was afraid that Japan was going to become a communist country and they would have been intimated if China, Russia and Japan were all communist nations. Nations like England, France and most of Europe was backing the United States and countries like China, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam were backing the Soviet Union. ... The one major thing that helped the United...

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By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. ... Moreover, the opening of relations with the Chinese would put the United States in a uniquely ad...

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During the same period, China underwent several transformations, which included opening up the economy to the west and increasing foreign investment. ... Even though the desire of the Chinese citizens to end the Communist regime and establish a democracy resulted in the government returning to its conservative roots, the revolution was a wake up call to the west to act against the oppressive acts of the Chinese regime. ... For example, it would be incorrect to label the Chinese economy as entirely communist because it is clear that it is opening up to the West. ... The modern approach st...

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In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. ...

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In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. ...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... England has been a force to be reckoned throughout most of its history in all categories of life. ... The colonization of the original 13 colonies of modern day USA influenced the creation of the most technologically advanced, economically fueled, and politically savvy superpowers in history. ... The feeling of respite which England held towards the US did not last forever however, as the US would soon rise to a place of glory taking her seat in the annals of history alongside...

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The United Nations saw fit to deploy their first ever-armed peacekeepers to the canal in 1956 (The History of Peacekeeping, n.d), and further they threatened to halt Britain's oil supplies. ... Due to Nasser's recognition of the Peoples Republic of China, combined with Eisenhower's fear that Egypt did not have the economic capabilities to complete the Aswan dam, a structure situated across the Nile that since has had huge economic and social impacts upon Egypt (Heists, 2003), the U.S withdrew all financial aid for the project on July the 19th. ... It was these convoluted chara...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. ... Japan's economic success legitimized its role as a model in the eyes of its neighbors, thus outshining China and its Maoist ideals. ...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing...

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