This is the information that we came up with today. Also, today was a work day and I had to answer questions 4, 5, and 6 for my groups Project. Our Project is over China. Nick had to do Questions 1, 2, and 3. Brett had to do questions 7, 8, and 9.
Here are my Questions and Answers:
1. How did the Treaty of Versailles impact them?
2. What type(s) of government did this country have in the interwar years (1919-1938)?
3. How did their leader, that led them throughout WWII, come to power?
He was one of the most important governmental leaders in the 20th century in Chinese history. Chiang Kai-shek fought for Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese leader at the time before Chiang took over, in the United Revolutionary League and the Kuomintang party to take over the Imperial Dynasty in China at the time. The republic of China was formed in 1912 and by the 1920’s, China was split in two, The Kuomintang and the Communists now separated China from being very powerful during the years prior to WW II. Chiang came to power after the death of Yat-sen and he took over of the Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of China prior to WW II and during some of WW II., with Mao Zedong who was the Communist leader in China at the time. They formed an alliance to fight against Japan.
4. How did this leader change their country (for the better and worse) prior to WWII?
Kai-shek wanted to defeat communism before attacking Japan prior to WW II. But after the Xi’an accident, which took place in the city of Xi’an which is were the name comes from and Kai-shek was randomly and abruptly arrested for no reason on December 12, 1936. Then, Kai-shek decided that it was better to make a temporary truce with the communist leaders and unite with them to fight Japan. The communist leader in China, Mao Zedong said “70% of people will have self-development, 20% will work on compromise, and 10% will fight against the Japanese.” This was Zedong’s way of a good compromise that would be the final agreement so that the nationalists and the communists in China to fight together against Japan. China became nationalist and communist after WW II. The nationalist people retreated to Taiwan. China backed up North Korea when it invaded South Korea. Kim Sung, in Korea, created a dictatorship in after China backed up. Sung gave himself ultimate power and created a cult of personality. China hurt them self by helping Korea and lost some power.
5. What were the goals of the leader?
1. He attempted to eradicate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP was the ruling political party of the Republic of China and is one of the largest political parties in the world.
2. To become allies with the communist people in China so they would be strong enough to fight against Japan.
6. What was the military strategy of this country in the inter-war years (1919-1938)?
1. To be allies with the communist’s in China so to be able to fight Japan after Japan started the Second Sino-Japanese War. This war lasted from July 7, 1937- September 9, 1945. This battle took place during World War II and it included Nazi Germany until 1938, the Soviet Union (1937-1940) and the United States. This war merged into World War II as the major part of the Pacific Theatre. The Sino-Japanese war was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. Japan surrendered in 1945.
2. China wanted to secure many raw material reserves and some other economic resources, mostly food and labor.
3. China was completely unprepared for war.
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1. A vast retreat would have declared China not very strong and no other nation would be their ally, so Chiang decided to make an amazing stand at the Battle of Shanghai.
2. Chiang sent the best troops he had, who were German- trained divisions, to defend China’s most industrialized, advanced and biggest city against to Japanese forces.
3. China adopted the strategy of trading space for time. The Chinese put up small arms fights against Japan in order to delay the Japanese invasion.
4. China’s idea was to let dams and levees go and flood out some of the Japanese forces. This was good except it killed a total of about 1 million people. This caused vast flooding in places in China, but then a bit of hope in that the invasions slowed in late 1938.
5. China wanted to prolong the war as much as possible, so to exhaust the Japanese and to build up the Chinese military.
6. Chinese Red Army launched a major attack in northern China; they terminated railroads, and blew up a gigantic and major coal mine so that the Japanese could not use them to get supplies to troops. These tactics frustrated the Japanese and then Japan released the “Three Alls Policy” which meant kill all, loot all, and burn all.
7. What role did they play in WW II?
8. Who were their allies in WW II?
England, United Sates, Soviet Union, France, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia.
9. How did WW II impact/effect the country?
Many people died because of disease, starvation, massacres, and bombing, and deliberate genocide. Many deaths were Chinese and Soviet. An estimate is 7.5 million in China from other causes.
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3. Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/chiang-kai-shek
4. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II#Impact
5. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
6. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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8. Source: http://worldwar2history.info/war/Allies.html
9. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II#Impact
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