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China
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History
10th Grade
05/08/2009

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was China open to new ideas
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no
-thought they were better than everybody else
-because they had been more advanced
-fell behind
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China 1000-1200 (early years)
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-more advanced
-strong tradition
-gun powder
-ahead scientifically
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China 18th to 19th century
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-outside countries took over -1/3 addicted to opium
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China 1900
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-in chaos -Boxer Rebellion -to get outside forces out -Empress CIXI (tsee-shee) -unsuccessful
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China 1911
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-Quing dynasty collapses -had a two year old emperor -resigns
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Sun Yixian
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-new ruler -republic -medical doctor -trained in United States -can't all of a sudden take away thousands of years of culture -didn't work for Iraq
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China 1916
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-Sun Yixian dies -replaced by War Lords
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Mao Zedong
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-dies in 1976 -1920s university student -looks at Marxism in 1920s -small group -tried to appeal to masses(aka peasants)
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China nationalists
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Guomindang in Chinese -move to Taiwan -appealed to educated+upper middle class -peasants would still be put down and could not vote
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China 1920s-1949
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Chines Civil War
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China 1939-1945
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break for WWII to fight Japanese
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China adversaries
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-Western Allies help Guamindag -scared of communism (Red Scare) -Red China
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China in 1930s
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-Japan invades -Mao puts all efforts towards peasants -propaganda -education
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China 1949
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-Red China -Mao Zedong gets China -Communist Revolution -China's world's most populated -Taiwan one of the most densely populated places in the world
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China 1947
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-Truman Doctrine -communism must be contained -
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China capitalism
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free trade
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