The Hundred Flowers campaign and the Cultural Revolution had several benefits for Mao, in some respects they allowed for Mao to gage the feeling of the country and try to reconnect the party with the people to prevent bureaucracy. Another possible advantage could’ve been the advancement of agricultural and industrial policies given the right outcome. However to ignore the idea that the Cultural Revolution didn’t help Mao consolidate his political control would be foolhardy as both campaigns helped Mao both expose and purge political opponents from within the CCP and from Chinese society as a whole. One point that suggests that the Hundred Flowers campaign was carried out for reasons other than consolidating political control is the idea suggested by Mao's personal physician Li Zhisui which stipulates that Mao hoped that Chinese society would make criticisms of the soviet inspired 5 year plans and that Mao could use this as evidence of popular support to advance his own style industrial and agricultural plans. It is suggested that only after this had failed and criticism began to stack up against the policies of the CCP that Mao decided to begin his anti-rightist campaigns as some form of damage control to lessen the disastrous impact that the hundred flowers campaign had taken on the CCP by 1957.
(Tsukiyama 51)” Due to the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, the Japanese had to cut down on imports to pay for the materials for railway and ship building industries. The American embargoes prevented any goods from exporting to Japan therefore the Japanese began to experience shortage of food and other necessities. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the American embargoes stopped all Western imports to Japan which caused a huge crisis because Japan was running out of fresh resources (Graham, James, “Japan's Economic Expansion"). This caused havoc in Japan which was vividly portrayed as Hiroshi and his family struggle to survive, rationing every bit of their resources.
Although there failure of completely vanquishing the warlords there can be little doubt that Chiang was fairly successful in solving this domestic problem and the effects it would have on the country as it is probably that without him stabilising the political and social unrest civil war would have broken out in the country much early than it did. The GMD was able to successfully implement new and improved transport links throughout the country. The three thousand mile railway track connected North and South which helped Chiang to begin re-unifying the country and the people. However there can be little doubt that the transport was created for sole purpose of the urban rich who were the majority of his supporters and it only aided them to become
Mao adapted Communist ideas to China and he followed in Joseph Stalin’s footsteps by abusing his power and crippling the Chinese in fear with his totalitarian rule. In this essay I will be exploring the factors contributing to one of the biggest disputes in historical knowledge. Was Mao Zedong’s role in achieving communism genuine or has it been exaggerated and morphed by the Asian populations living under absolute despotism. “Idealism is no panacea in a totalitarian regime.” 1 - Quoted by a 20th century philosopher. It wasn’t said about Mao however it adapts to his ideas and aspirations.
Tsar Nicholas II wasn’t much of a good ruler for Russia; he ignored the fact that Russia wasn’t doing so good and overlooked the industrialization and nationalism that was occurring throughout Russia. Nicholas II disregarded the troubles the Russians were facing and seemed to only care about himself and him staying in power. This caused people to revolt as they needed a good strong leader to help Russia survive. The main leader who started China’s revolution was Sun Yat-sen who believed China should adopt a democratic government if it were to survive. The revolutions led by him eventually led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty in China.
On 4 February 1915, in response to the German submarine blockade of Great Britain, the Royal Navy seized all food destined for Germany which led to extreme food shortages. Prior to this, Germany had imported 25% of what was consumed and was not self-sufficient in terms of food. In response to this, a War Food Office was set up in 1916 but its actions were often counter-productive for example when they ordered the killing of 9 million pigs due to that fact they consumed grain. This consequently led to less pork and fertiliser and ultimately had a negative impact. Following the Auxiliary Service Law in December 1919, which required all able-bodied Germans to work for the war effort, there was a sharp increase of social unrest as Germans felt their rights being curtailed.
This attempt to colonize in the new world was ruled a failed attempt because everyone died and got sick. But in the second attempt in 1586 Raleigh got smarter and sent John White as the leader of this future colony. Along with White, Raleigh sent 117 people including men, woman, and children to help with the natural population boom. Things were going great until a shortage of supplies became a problem. Since they were short of supplies John White goes back to London to get more supplies but gets caught up in a war for about 3 years.
Bartering had been common in medieval times which show how people resorted to previous looked down upon activities. Pensioners on fixed incomes suffered as pensions became worthless. Restaurants did not print menus as by the time food arrives…the price had gone up! The poor became even poorer and the winter of 1923 meant that many lived in freezing conditions burning furniture, or in some cases, banknotes, to get some heat. The group that suffered a great deal - proportional to their income - was the middle class.
While Richard Milhous Nixon is seen as the worst president in the history of the United States of America, many people and historians also believe he did “one thing right.” That “one thing”0 would be his trip to China or as Richard Nixon himself referred to it -“the week that changed the world”0 However did it really change the world? Or was it just a political move made by the Nixon administration in an election year? Though the visit to China did help in opening up trade and communication, it was useless for President Nixon to personally go to China, and was not a history changing event like it was portrayed. In the year of 1971 it was revealed that a top secret meeting was held in China between America’s top foreign relations officer -Henry
Hard Times shadowed across the globe as the stock market dropped rapidly. During the term of presidency of Herbert Hoover in 1929, the United States became a jobless nation and left many people homeless, penniless. The economy’s confidence was lowered as numerous banks failed. Since Americans were unable to look for support amongst each other, the government and charity were the only industries they could depend on for providing food. Amidst of such a high suicidal rate the United States grew in need of a new leader that would take higher precautions on how the country should be ran in order to enable them to rise out of the Depression.