Chiang Kai-shek

the 16th of July 1945. Following the success of the test, two more atomic bombs were created, the “Little Boy” and the “Fat Man”. With the atomic bombs ready for use, the leaders of the US (Harry S. Truman), the UK (Clement Attlee), and China (Chiang Kai-shek) collaborated to demand the surrender of the Japanese Empire. On the 26th of July, the Potsdam Declaration was delivered, which provided Japan with an ultimatum, to surrender unconditionally or be met with “prompt and utter destruction”.…

It could have been described as being more divided than even Europe was. In China the communist were under the rule of Mao Zedong, and the nationalist were under the rule of Chiang Kai Shek. By 1994 the communist had taken the mainland and left the nationalist with Tiawain. Many of the other communist countries would help the communist China by equipping them with artillery and ammunition. In a speech given by John Foster he exclaims…

The Manhattan Project was the U.S. government’s research project that produced the first Atomic bomb. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) This project lasted from 1942 through 1945. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) It was prompted by the discovery that German radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover the process of fission in uranium in December of 1938. (Energy.gov) (Atomic Archive) Albert Einstein decided it was necessary to write President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him that Germany…

Since the 1920s, Soviet communist advisors had been sent to help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) become organized and carry out the communist revolution, but the Soviet communist advisors’ advice almost led to the complete and utter destruction of the Chinese communists at the hands of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, hereafter KMT). Another issue between the two parties was the fact that Mao based his communism on the idea of the mobilization of the Chinese peasantry, which was not…

India has had many revolutionaries in her pre-independence era. Out of these, M.N. Roy stood out as a communist. What made Roy unique was his fusion of communism and nationalism. A staunch communist, Roy met great political leaders of the world, like Lenin, was responsible for the creation of communist parties in India and Mexico and was a renowned political thinker and revolutionary. Roy 's works were held in great regard. However, in the late 1930s, Roy suddenly changed his tracks from…

After the Marco Polo incident, the Japanese then spread out in China soon reaching Nanjing. To protect the Chinese citizens from being killed brutally, the International Safety Zones Community built a safety zone. Not long after it was built more than 200,000 people move into it. Thanks to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese. Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan…

The First World War was a calamity, but what was done in the wake of it, and the world it created, set the stage for even worse events. The post war world teetered on a precarious balance in both Europe and Asia. The nationalism that caused the First World War, manifested itself after the war and threatened post war security. Post- war Europe and Asia were fractured because of issues stemming from the First World War and combined with nascent and growing nationalism. Europe bore the brunt of…

What is Socialism? Socialism is defined as public control of property and resources. Society should produce goods and own property for the good of its own members, and if someone helped make a good, they should be allowed to share in it. The object of production should be to meet human needs. Money would disappear, everyone would take freely in what is produced, and work would be voluntary and as needed. Socialism is a direct opposite to capitalism’s ideas of individuals developing to the best…

Totalitarian leaders are frequent employers of political propaganda through the emphasis of commonness and shared history of their people to further their political agenda. By appealing to the collective sentiment of the people, these leaders spread the seed of false hope to gain support of their people and later use that to forge a national identity. In effort to coerce everyone into participating in the nationalist movement, brutal consequences are strictly enforced upon those who do not…

On the 25th June the fragile peace in Korea was shattered when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea and ultimately leading to a conflict that would span three years and cost an estimated 2.5 million lives. Korea had been liberated from Japanese control in 1945 by Soviet troops who moved down into the north of the country and US troops who landed in the south. After this the country was divided along the 38th parallel of latitude until the country could be…