China changed though, when Europeans came. ... Pretty soon, the European countries had taken much Chinese land away and controlled some areas of China. ... He was easily disposed, due to lack of Chinese support. ... When Japan began conquering China, Kaishek ended his war with the Chinese Communists and allied with them for a short time to fight the Japanese. ... The Nationalists fled to Taiwan and proclaimed Taipei the capital of China, while the Communists established the People's Republic of China. ...

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Although many things divide them today, Communist and Nationalist Chinese agree in their admiration for Sun Yat-Sen, known as the father of modern China. ... In 1912 the Republic of China was proclaimed. ... China joined the Allies in World War I, and at the Versailles peace conference the Chinese demanded an end to foreign spheres of influence in their country. ... The years from 1928 to 1937 are known as the Nationalist era in Chinese history. ... But Communist China was admitted to the United Nations in 1971, and in 1972 US President Richard Nixon visited China, beginning the normalization ...

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There were many revolutions throughout history. ... Chinese Revolution happened in 1949. ... Communist was driven to the interior of China. ... He started to build up China. ... It changed politics, economy and culture of Chinese. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution, a period marked by struggle, destruction, and communism, serves as a major blemish on the People's Republic of China. No greater was this disaster felt than on those who experienced it first hand- China's populous. ... A brainwashed China is made clear when Heng travels to Peking to see Chairman Mao. ... The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a period of a heavy political presence as well as total control of the masses, a time in history that eerily parallels that of George Orwell's 1984. ... The result of which was a release from the brainwashed st...

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Marxism proposes that, as history develops, feudalism gives rise to capitalism, then socialism, and finally the ideal classless society is realised. ... History has taught unequivocally that Marx was simply mistaken. ... History has proven that gradual change, rather than revolution, has been the most successful route to a fairer and more affluent society. ... In China one of the last remaining Communist regimes, gradual changes are being introduced to create a capitalist, democratic state. ... If Marxist socialism was successful then why would China be making a retreat from it? ...

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Marx entered the University of Berlin where he read law, majoring in history as well as philosophy. ... According to Feuerbach,"man has so far in history lived primarily a life of religion, and that the essences of religion is man's estrangement from himself," At the same time of Marx becoming acquainted with these thoughts, he was jumping from one place to another causing his family to live in wretched poverty. ... He first states that the primary determinant of history is economics where the history of society is viewed as the history of class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the pr...

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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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McCarthyism McCarthyism was a time period throughout the 1940's and 1950's where America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. ... It was a mistake in history, which only left scars on the people it wounded. ...

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"For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... Despite this support, America's Korean campaign was unsuccessful, this was to some degree the fault of President Truman, who had not believed that the Chinese government would be prepared to intervene and he also underestimated the military power of China. Therefore, not wanting to engage in an all-out war with China and the Soviet Union, which would most likely have led to the Third world war, Truman was forced to negotiate, and thus the Korean War ended in stalemate on July 1953 ...

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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, ...

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How Capitalism Creates War Throughout its history, the capitalist system has proven itself to be one of war. ... Take the situations of Cuba and China for example. ... Meanwhile, Congress tries to establish free trade with China, a country that among many, many other things encourages throwing babies off cliffs if they are girls. ...

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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. ...

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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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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. ...

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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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(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. ...

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