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.
This was pivotal to the survival of the CCP as they needed to increase their numbers. Furthermore, one of the only reasons the CCP managed to survive the GMD's encirclement campaigns was because Mao decided to ignore Comintern orders and flee to the mountains of Jiangxi at the end of 1927. This shows how determined Mao was and how he strained to achieve CCP's survival. Without Mao's independent thinking, the CCP would almost certainly have been in chaos and would have been wiped out. Moreover, Mao Zedong's ability to understand the Chinese people - especially the peasants who accounted for 440 million people out of the 500 million people living in
As the chancellor in 1923 he led Germany out of the hyperinflation crisis and as the foreign minister, he ended Germany's isolation amongst the international community and helped the country to become a magnet for foreign investment. Stresemann was admired by some, reviled by others. In September 1923 when the Germans were unable to pay reperations to France, French and Belgian troops took resources from the Rurh area as payment, which influenced the German workers to refuse to work in Ruhr. The workers strike worsened the fall in production. This encouraged Stresemann to call off the passive resistance and he agreed to repay the reperations and persuaded workers to return to work.
This can be shown by the fact that one outcome was the re – education enforced by Mao, that was made compulsory to the Red Guards, the youth league of the CCP. This clearly shows that Mao was successfully stating his authority and power within the communist party, expressing himself as the man leader. The CCP was also significantly weakened through the breakdown of the central committee, as another outcome of the Central Revolution. After the Ninth Party congress of April 1969, the old committee was replaced, with less than a quarter re-elected into the new committee, with 45% of the 279 members being
Even when he grew into his self-appointed role of Supreme Commander and learned from his earlier mistakes, it can be argued that his greatest victories, such as the battles at Kursk and Stalingrad, were less down to him, but rather down to the expertise of his generals, such as Zhukov. This, in addition to external factors that helped the Soviet win the war, such as British and American aid and Hitler's poor judgement, puts doubt into the overall significance of Stalin's role in winning the war. Although he was largely responsible for the successful propaganda and mobilisation drive on the domestic front, which helped to mobilise national support for the war, in context of the entire war period, his personal significance was overshadowed by his own initial ineptitude as well as the importance of these other factors. If we are to look at the importance of Stalin's role in winning the war, then his role in almost initially losing it must also be examined. It was clear from the outset that both Stalin and his appointed generals had a distinct lack of expertise in war.
In Russia, the peasants were treated very poorly, Russian princes did not want to pay their share of the tribute, so they raised taxes on the peasants and kept some of the money for themselves. Unlike the Russians, Chinese peasants were treated fairly better had restored granaries and reduced taxes. While securing the empire in China, they secured the most valued trade region in all of Asia; the Silk Road. It was necessary for the Silk Road to be protected from bandits and thieves. It would be a great risk if travelers did not have a secure route to trade on.
The AAA, the CCC, the TVA, the FDIC, and the NIRA were established to create stable jobs and ways to have people help others. Deficit spending was one of the many things Roosevelt did, but he did it because it was the only way to help the United States get out of the economic struggle. The moral of the Great Depression is that there are ways for the United States to pull out of financial ruins and that desperate times calls for desperate measures. World War I: America’s
The following piece is meant to demonstrate how the Sino-Soviet split occurred and how it led to the Sino-U.S. rapprochement. During the Chinese civil war between the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and the Guomindang (Nationalist Party) of the 1920s and 1930s, the leader of the USSR, Josef Stalin, had supported the Nationalist party of China. It would seem very strange that Stalin, being ideologically entangled with the Communist system, would decide to seek an alliance with the Guomidang. However, Stalin viewed the Guomidang as his best opportunity to combat the Japanese expansion into China that took place in the 1930s and World War II. Thus, Stalin placed greater significance on nationalist interests over ideological solidarity.
Just a few years before this document was written such events as the Massacre at Wounded Knee happened, I believe this was just too fresh in the minds of government officials that they didn’t want to risk having another situation similar to this with the Chinese. There were some very relevant points to be considered such as the Chinese were only contributing their wages to society if it was absolutely necessary for their survival. They would live in the worst of conditions and eat as little as possible to try to save as much as they could to take back to their families in China. This is a very real problem because they start to become leeches, for lack of a better word, and they put none of their wages back into the US economy. This could in turn hurt the economy if too many of the immigrants were living this kind of
It was a social taboo for ordinary people to get too active in political issues, even criticizing and talking was not allowed. This cultural feature of Chinese immigrants formed a public opinion that they were not willing to be assimilated into American society in the early 20th century. As Siu (1952) noted in his famous article The Sojourner, Chinese immigrants, especially the first and second generation in the United States, were “sojourners” who stick to the cultural heritage of their own ethnic group and lived in isolation, hindering their assimilation to the community in which they lived, often for quite a long