Imperial rule in China collapsed and resulted in civil war for a multitude of reasons. These include the unstable financial and economic situation and the opposing values and beliefs between those with different views. After the Revolutionary alliance (later known as the KMT or Kuomintang) overthrew the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yixian hoped to establish a modern government based on “The 3 Principles of the People”. These principles encompassed nationalism, people’s rights, and people’s livelihood. Unfortunately, Sun lacked the necessary military support and authority to secure national unity.
Meanwhile, in China they were suffering from similar political issues. In China their bureaucracy was corrupt. The central government had been completely diminished. China was mired with civil war and intrigue. Bureaucrats were becoming more corrupt, and local landlords ended
In order to defend the border and feed the imperial clans the in kind of tax were too heavy for the common people. Lead the Ming government isolated with the masses. Thirdly, and the most fatal crisis must be the lack of responsibility in chongzhen’s personality and the terrible relationship between the last emperor Chongzhen and his ministers, the distance between minister and emperor became far away ,and ultimately none of his ministers would like to work for him anymore and this lead to a famous talk from chongzhen, “My ministers have failed me. As ruler of the country I must die for the altars of the soil and grain. An empire that has lasted 277 years: It is all because of the mistakes of treacherous minister that it has come to this.Alas!’’ So many scholars put forward their opinions answering the reason why Ming Dynasty cannot addressed these crisis and finally collapsed.
Chiang faced many problems during his period as Nationalist leader, one of which being the insurance that all warlords were defeated, especially the powerful warlord Zhang Zuolin of Manchuria, and that China would be united under one leader. Additionally, Chiang had to deal with the treat of both the Communists and the Japanese. However, Chiang did pass many policies in his period as leader in order to stabilise the Chinese economy due to the vast inflation
The boats were released at 3:30am. This didn’t go to plan. Since it was pitch black when the boats were released, the tows could not see the geography of Anzac Cove. So, they solely relied on the fact that the battleships had been in the correct position when the boats were released. There are many theories why the journey went to shambles but there is one thing for sure; the boats were meant to land on a two mile front in between Hell Spit and Gaba Tepe, but they landed around Ari Burnu, 1.5miles north of their intended area.
The Qing Dynasty first started following the military invasion by the people of Manchuria, it was the final dynasty of the Chinese Empire, which ruled from 1644 to 1912. By the early 20th century, the Qing rulers were being undermined by aggressive foreign powers, rural unrest, and military weakness. The Last Emperor, the 6-year-old Puyi, abdicated in February of 1912. Chinese people did not like the feeling that their country was being ruled by foreigners known as the Manchu. Along with other ethnic and cultural changes which brought further tensions between the Chinese and the Qing Dynasty for example the ‘queue’ hairstyle.
Many lives were lost in external conflicts as well as internal civil wars. Small pox and lead poisoning in the aqueducts further decimated the population. " To worsen matters, plague from China spread through the empire." (Sherman & Salisbury, 153) Just as in China, the disease caused intense suffering and depleted the already dwindling Roman population. " Medical knowledge was helpless in the face of pandemics like the mid-third-century plague, and Roman families could no longer populate the empire."
What if foreign armies had decided not to involve themselves in the Taiping Rebellion? The Taiping Rebellion was a huge rebel group organized mainly by Hong Xiuquan that was initiated to rebel against the Qing dynasty Chinese government. This rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in Chinese history (BGE). It began in the province of Guangxi and was led by millenarian Christian leader Hong Xiuquan (Taiping Rebellion). After several victories and captures of cities by the Taipings the Chinese government eventually got tired of it and sent out for help from the west.
1.) How successful was Mao as the ruler of China? China had currently many problems at the time. To face the problems he introduced the Great Leap Forward, in which communism was adapted – not altogether successfully – to meet the Chinese situation, with the emphasis on decentralization, agriculture, communes, and contact with the masses. - The country was devastated after a long civil war and the war with Japan: railways, roads, canals and dykes had been destroyed and there were chronic food shortages.
First of all it is nearly impossible to become an American citizen, but you can get a visa or green card that lets you stay there for over 3 months. Then if you manage to get permission to stay there, no one can guaranty you a nice job that pays well. I’ve visited the states around 11 times and each time, no matter which state, I see many homeless people in the streets and it makes me sad. I love America and it is my dream country, which might sound weird after my critics, but America has something special about it, that can’t be described. Americans are so much nicer than Danish people.