Chinese Revolution Many aspects of China's history attributed to China's revolution in 1911. ... Taxation in China was a big predicament. ... -China security relations: 1) Taiwan, 2) U.S. proposals for deploying theater missile defense systems in Asia, 3) supposed leaks to China of military-related technologies and nuclear secrets, and 4) Chinese arms export policies. ... Conclusion In closing, I think it is a good idea to make good with China because it seems as if China is becoming a very powerful nation. China seems to be changing for the better. ...

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America is a land made by many diverse faces all with the similar history of segregation and discrimination that cannot by forgotten. ... One of the most talked about periods of America's history of discrimination lived in the story of Africans. ... When the Irish refused to work for low wages and high hours, they went on strike finding that the low paid Chinese quickly replaced them. ... They were given citizenship unlike the Chinese and African's who needed to be taught English. ... The Chinese class were often isolated from the "white" Americans, and found restrictions to their l...

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The three most important turning points for modern world history were exploration, World War I, and World War II. ... In the 1530's Jacques was sent for a short, western passage to China. ... However exploration is not the only major Important turning point in modern world history. ... Last major turning point of modern world history has to do with WWII. ... Knowing all this it's safe to conclude the three major turning points of modern world history are exploration, WWI, and WWII. ...

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Many other countries were also involved in the war such as China and Vietnam, among many others. ... Losing China to the communists was a devastating blow to the United States. China was faced with the need for military and economic aid which it eventually received from Russia. ... Thirty million Chinese starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, making it one of the worst man-made disasters in history. In 1964, China explodes its first nuclear bomb. ...

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Then, amid Japan's war against China, he took sides, supporting, not surprisingly, the nation that he was believed to be leading: Japan. ... Victory eluded the Japanese in China, and his generals were reluctant to accept failure in China -- the acceptance of failure being difficult for many people. ... Bix's book lays out in detail Hirohito's support for the Japanese imperialism in China, Hirohito's taking Japan into war against the West and his leadership in pursuing that war. ... Belatedly the United States was also fighting for China's freedom from Japanese imperial...

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In response to the internment of the Japanese, Attorney General Earl Warren stated, "...in time of war every citizen must give up some of his normal rights," which suggests that these acts of aggression were only due to the wartime atmosphere, but events like the race riots after World War I, treatment of the Chinese and Irish, and the oppression of women all support the idea that this behavior was part of American culture. ... The treatment of the Chinese and Irish immigrants is another example of mistreatment and discrimination during a non-wartime atmosphere. ... The oppression of women...

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Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. ... They threatened to bomb China and to use atomic bombs on Korea. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... China lost 967,000, and North Korea lost 624,000. ... Every member supported American arms for the first time, and possibly only time in its short history. ...

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It is the "home city" of three kinds of landers.First, the native residents who are born here and take the whole city for granted.Second,there are quite a lot of people coming from other provinces of China in pursuit for something.Third,the ones come abroad wanting to evade or grisp something. ... Shanghai enjoys a favorable location and a long history and culture. ... The Chinese and Jewish people helped each other, shared weal and woe together in the hardships of the war years, and forged a profound friendship. It is now an important center of economy, finance, trade, science and technolog...

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China and India also have huge lands and they house lots of ethnic groups who speak many different languages. "The Republic of China is also a complex case because there are fifty five national minorities (seven percent of the population) in the country who do not speak Han Chinese of the majority population in a nation of over one billion people" (Farnen, p.43). ... Canada is the satellite of USA, and USA has never had much trouble with it in history because she did not try to exploit Canada. ... It had caused many empires to collapse (Austria-Hungry Empire, Ottoman Empire etc.) throughout ...

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After defeating Russia and china, Japan had regained its confident. ... History itself is really hard to conclude in one answer simply because were just reading out of the book instead of actually seeing and experiencing it. ...

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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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Although he majored in history, he knew little of European history. ... They wanted ownership of German ports in China, this may sound ridicules and it was. Their requests at the treaty were unfair to China; however the idea was entertained and eventually denied. ... We can use history as a guide for present problems that arise in the world. ...

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Immigrants From the earliest times in the United States history, immigrants that have come to the United States have often faced nativism and discrimination. ... In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, stopping entry of most Chinese immigrants into the United States. ...

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History With over 6 billion people on earth, we must acknowledge and respect the problem of overpopulation. ... Asian Bloc: Arguably the hardest hit continent with China and India, the Asian bloc varies. China and Vietnam regulate the # of children per family, but in India and Indonesia the population is out of control. ...

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The Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor (on the Hawaiian island of Oahu), December 7, 1941, was the climax of a decade of rising tension between Japan and the United States. Throughout the 1930s, Japan had been steadily encroaching on China. The United States had been trying to control Japan's devel...

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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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As their representative Oe traveled to China and met with China's communist leader at the time Mao Tse-tung. ... Whether they were received positively or negatively Oe's books have impacted the way people see the Japanese and the toils and troubles they have gone through in their history. ... Being raised during one of the darkest times in Japanese history Kenzaburo Oe managed to make a great life out of the opportunities he was given by sharing his geniusness with the world, showing them what life really is like and how to persevere through any and all circumstances. ...

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The battle of Hong Kong is a significant aspect of world war two and Canadian history because: it was the first battle in the Pacific campaign of World War II, it was the first major battle that Canadian soldiers engaged in the pacific and Asian regions of the world, and it lead to a four year struggle of survival for Canadian soldiers. ... For months after the invasion of Hong Kong, the Japanese army began invading more cities and eventually countries such as: Hong Kong, China and the Philippines on their chase to seize power.8 Not only does the Battle of Hong Kong begin the Pacific Campa...

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"It was the greatest trial in history" were the words of a British judge and an opinion agreed upon around the world. ... In 1945 representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, the USSR, and China drew up the United Nations charter in San Francisco from the 25th of April to the 26th of June. ... Great Britain, the United States, the USSR, France, and China all had permanent seats on the Security Council and a veto power over all proposals. ...

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After Japan was put into such a weak position, not only did the United States ask for them to surrender, but so did the British and Chinese governments. Japan refusing to surrender at this time is what caused the United States to use a bomb that would change history forever. ... The effect this bomb had on people was far greater than the B-29 bomber attacks, simply due to the fact that not only was this attack a significant part of war history, but the effects caused by radiation of this bomb is still causing people to be sick hundreds of years later. ... War always consists of political decis...

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Lao-tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher from 6th century BC, the author of Tao-te Ching, and Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who lived 2000 years after Lao-tzu's time, author of Prince. ... Look into American History From Civil War to Vietnam War to Desert Storm, which cost billions dollars and millions lives, will the war ever end? ...

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I liken it to the episode of South Park when the owner of a Chinese restaurant is endowed with the task of building a great wall around the city. ... The republican democracy of this country has become the most successful political experiment in history, and it is time to once again move forward in the direction of bolstering America's future. ...

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1. What was the focus of the U.S. policies in the Caribbean and in the Far East? The United States had an interest in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal. With this interest in mind, the United States developed a Caribbean policy to ensure its dominance in the region. It established protectorate...

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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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This show of Military Might was not only directed toward Japan but also toward Communist China and Russia. ... Leslie Groves was chief of the Manhattan Project, and after the bombing of Hiroshima he was quoted to say "We have spent $2,000,000 on the greatest scientific gamble in history...we won". ...

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