First Sino-Japanese War

The first modern Olympic which have been cancelled is in 1916, Berlin Olympics. This Olympic has been cancelled because of WWⅠ that started in 1914 and ended in 1918. At the first, Olympic organization had been prepared for the games even after the war had outbroken because nobody could guess that the war had continued so long. The game venue had been constructed 1912 to 1913, but the game was cancelled in the end. Tokyo Olympic in 1940 was also cancelled due to the influence of another war,…

The Mongols were forced out of Korea as well as China Chapter 39, pg 516-520 and pg 521 China The decline of the Qing dynasty He opium wars lasted from 1839 to 1842 The British East India Company traded opium from India with people in south China In 1842 China lost power over some territory after signing part of the unequal treaties The taiping rebellion South China suffered the most…

“Within no time, according to the account of one of the Japanese soldiers, the river and its bank was covered with innumerable bodies, including those of the adults and children. Sources tell us that at least 50,000 people were killed in this tragic incident.” To begin, Genocide is the mass killing of a group and has many individual steps to be classified. In China, during the Sino-Japanese war created conflict in the capital city of Nanking. All eight stages of genocide refer to the Rape of…

doesn’t it make us wonder whether the attack was anticipated? Different people look at this attack differently. Although many think it was a surprise attack, a lot of the evidence has shown that President Roosevelt had plenty warnings about the Japanese military attacking the Navy. Given all these predictions of the enemy plan, this bombing event…

the idea of the mobilization of the Chinese peasantry, which was not what Stalin advocated, the traditional Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist ideology such as the struggle of the working class. The Great Leap Forward was both a cause and the result of the Sino-Soviet split, the aggravation of the relationship between the two…

Misa Leeflang Research Notes National History Day Perry’s Expedition’s Effects on Japan ___ Thesis Perry’s Expedition’s Effects on Japan In 1853 and 1854, the encounter of Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan forcefully opened the once isolated country to trade and diplomatic relations with western nations, rapidly modernizing Japan with the exchange of western ideas and technology. ___ Notes Introduction: Perry’s Expedition and its goals Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry landed in…

leaders of autonomous armies fought for power” (Dreyer 1). Kuomintang Party stood against the Communist Party and waged a massive civil war mainly in the Northeast part of China, “ending only with the victory of communists on the mainland in 1949” (Dreyer 1). In the middle of the civil war, the aggression of the Japan dragged China into the tragedy of the Second World War.…

their culture is. The main theme that took place and evident in the history of Japan is that they were always had the sights set on trying to establish themselves as a first world…

World War II was the most destructive and ubiquitous war in history so far. The war cost many human lives with the number of casualties totaling to about 50 million military combatants and civilians killed. The Allied nations, led by Britain (as well as its Commonwealth nations), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America, fought their main adversary, the Axis nations, which are, but not limited to, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and other allies. The…

declaration of war. During the war, 10 percent of the population was either killed, wounded or missing, while 600 000 of homes combined in North and South Korea were destroyed. William Stueck argues in his book, Rethinking the Korean War, that had only intensified and militarized the Cold War. This paper thus answers the question, how have historians explained the origins of the Korean war? There are two arguments made by historians about the origins of the Korean war. The first argument posits…