The document summarizes the growing ideological divide and tensions between the Soviet Union and China from the 1950s-1970s. Initially allies after the founding of the People's Republic of China, disagreements emerged over the definition of communism and China's relationship with the West. These ideological differences escalated and the Sino-Soviet split emerged, with both countries competing for control over communist states. As relations deteriorated, the USSR withdrew support and scientists from China. This ideological split allowed the US under Nixon to exploit the tensions and pursue closer relations with China as a counterbalance to the Soviet Union.
Chapter 4: Northern Ireland - Causes and ImpactsGoh Bang Rui
These slides explain Chapter 4 of Social Studies syllabus which is Norther Ireland and aim to explain the causes and impacts.
These slides have been adapted from Adeline Fam and these slides can be located at
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In this essay, I will discuss the Chinese Civil War between the communists and the nationalists as well as the consequences that this conflict resulted for both China and the international arena.
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The Cold War and Decolonization
Cuba and the United States
Cuba was ceded to the USA in 1901 at the conclusion of the Spanish-American war.
The US made Cuba an independent state, but retained the “right of intervention” in order to insure a pro-American government.
The ensuing political instability led to years of corruption and questionable elections.
The United States continued to dominate Cuban politics and US companies control the majority of Cuba’s resources (sugar).
Cuba and the Cold War
Political instability and corruption led to a Communist insurgency in the 1950s led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Castro succeeded in ousting the government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
Castro initially looked to the United States for support, but his policies of seizing the property of American companies angered the Eisenhower administration.
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Cold War meets Decolonization
US unhappiness with Cuba turned to hostility in 1961, when the CIA sponsored the “Bay of Pigs” invasion.
Castro immediately turned to the USSR for assistance.
The USSR, under Khrushchev, offered assistance in return for military cooperation.
Castro agreed, and the Soviets placed
medium range nuclear weapons in
Cuba, 90 miles from the USA.
The USA responded with a 13-day
naval blockade and the threat of
general war. Khrushchev agreed
to remove the missiles.
Decolonization in India
Gandhi
The basis of Gandhi’s efforts were non-violence and non-cooperation.
Swadeshi
The “Quit India” movement was started in 1939 because Gandhi believed India could not support a war to defend democracy when India was denied democratic self-rule.
In 1947, his movement forced Britain to accept Indian independence.
Nehru, Gandhi’s partner in the independence movement, worked hard to keep India unaligned with either the USA or the USSR.
The Soviet Union on Western Imperialism
“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”
--Lenin, 1916
The official policy of the USSR was
to aid anti-imperial efforts, primarily
by supporting communist insurgencies
and uprisings, in places like Africa and
Latin America.
Bandung Conference
Nehru of India and Sukarno of Indonesia organized the Bandung conference in 1955 for newly independent former colonies.
The goal of the conference was to offer support to one another, and to avoid having to become involved in the Cold War.
The countries which tried to remain outside the East versus West struggle became popularly known as the “Third World”
French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh was a civil rights worker in French Indochina.
Versailles Conference, 1919
Communism, 1920s.
Viet Minh, his resistance movement against Japan, 1941-1945
Provisional government and declaration of independence, 1945
He immediately turned to the United States for aid and recognition, citing his cooperation in fighting the Japanese.
Why ...
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China emerged from the Second World War with some serious issues. First, it had suffered through the war. Remember, the Japanese invaded China in 1937. Secondly, it had already been fighting a Civil War for many years. From 1912 until the Japanese invaded in 1937, China had been suffering with a good deal of internal strife. Once the Emperor had been deposed, China had been trying to create a cohesive state. However, due to the ravages of Colonialism and poor governmental policies for about 100 years, instead of segueing into a western style democracy such as Japan (Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s dream), there was a corrupt crony capitalism with a somewhat democratic leadership, that had to deal with extreme poverty, and regional warlords.
While trying to make order out of this chaos, this government was then presented with a growing Communist party threat. Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communists were a new breed. Mocked by the Russians because even Stalin believed that you couldn’t have a communist revolution in such a poor, peasant, non-industrial society, Mao was undeterred and began a decades-long campaign to “win the hearts and minds of the people” – mostly the peasants. This was the beginning of what we now call 4th generation warfare (guerrilla warfare, small bands attacking targets, terrorism). Mao befriended villages, won their hearts, attacked the Chinese Nationalists and then disappeared into the villages. This “war” went on for about 10 years until the Japanese invaded – in fact, it was one reason that the Japanese were able to attack China so successfully.
During the Second World War, the Communists and the Nationalists made an uneasy truce called the United Front. The idea was to team up to defeat the Japanese and then figure out the government. Mao greatly benefited from this truce. He managed to get the Nationalists to stop attacking him, and to concentrate on the Japanese. Meanwhile, he spent very little effort at attacking the Japanese but continued building up his strength and winning over new converts. Thus by 1945, when the Japanese were defeated, Mao was in a very strong position from a large majority of popular support.
History and Geography
China is one of the oldest civilizations on earth. The land area is roughly equivalent to the U.S, but there are about 1.4 billion residents. It is bordered on the north with Mongolia and Russia (the Soviet Union during almost all of the Twentieth Century), on the west with India, Nepal and Myanmar (Burma), on the south-west with Vietnam, Laos, on the south with the China Sea and the Philippines and Taiwan in the China Sea, on the Northeast with Korea, on the east with the East China Sea and Yellow Sea with Japan in the Yellow Sea (across from Korea).
Economically, China was the engine that drove world growth at least until the 17th century. Many historians believe that the strength of the Chinese economy lasted until the second industrial revolution in England. The ...
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Concepts to Know
· Kuomintang
· Cultural Revolution
· Deng Xiaoping
· National People’s Congress
· Standing Committee
· The “Mass Line”
· Ministry of Public Security
· Residents’ Committees
· Criminal Detention
· Adjudication Committees
· Political-legal Committees
· Supreme People’s Court
· Basic People’s Courts
· Procuratorate
· People’s Assessor
· Confucians
· Legalists
· Compulsory Measures
· Administrative Regulations
· Labor Camps
· Death Penalty
· Bang-jiao
Introduction
CHINA is an ancient country that has one of the oldest civilizations on earth. Its written history is almost 4,000 years old, and throughout much of its existence, its cultural traditions have had a profound impact on the entire East Asian region. China occupies much of the mainland of East Asia and shares land borders with 14 countries (Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam). With a geographical area of about 3.7 million square miles, China is slightly larger than the United States (see Figure 6.1). Among the countries of the world, only Russia and Canada are larger in area. Unlike the United States, where almost 20 percent of the land is utilized for agriculture, China cultivates around 10 percent of its land on a permanent basis.
Because of rugged and inhospitable geographical conditions, particularly in the western regions, large areas of China are uninhabited. As a result, approximately two-thirds of the population live along the east coast, which represents about one-fifth of the land. China has long held the distinction of having the world’s largest population at more than 1.3 billion. This figure is greater than the combined populations of Europe, Russia, and the United States. More than 91 percent of the people belong to the Han ethnic group. All of the other ethnic minorities represent less than 1 percent of the population, with the exception of the Zhuang minority at 1.3 percent of the total population.
Approximately 31 percent of the labor force is employed in agriculture and forestry, with industrial and service ventures employing 30 and 36 percent, respectively. Iron, steel, and textiles are among the more prominent industries. In 1978, Chinese leaders initiated a program to modernize agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defense. Their goal was to achieve a fairly advanced industrialized country by the year 2000. This program was prompted, in part, by the fact that the standard of living had been in a considerable state of decline since the 1950s.
Throughout China’s more recent political history under communism, the state essentially owned the industrial enterprises and commercial ventures of the country. Because people were guaranteed life-long employment, concerns about workforce productivity had been negl ...
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
2. Throughout the Cultural Revolution, China continued
to play a part in the international politics of the Cold
War.
At a time when Mao was stressing Communist purity
in China, his foreign policy with the USSR moved from
an alliance to bitter hostility.
This led China to eventually forge ties with its former
enemy, the United States.
3. Tensions between the Soviet and
Chinese Communists dated back to
the 1930s, when Russia supported
Chiang Kai-shek over Mao.
In the beginning the People's
Republic, Russia and China appeared
to stand together.
In 1950 Mao signed a Treaty of
Friendship with the Soviet Union, it
offered China a sense of security
against American attack.
But almost immediately the Sino-
Soviet alliance began to show signs
of strain.
4. In the mid-1950s a growing
ideological divide emerged between
Russia and China over the definition
of Communism and how best to
deal with the West.
While China favored continued
aggression towards "imperialist"
nations, the USSR began to consider
"peaceful coexistence" with the
United States.
Soon the ideological differences
took on national dimensions, as
both the Chinese and Soviets fought
for territory and control of
Communist satellite states.
5. One result of the split
China was forced to
find its own way in
scientific
research….Russia
removed scientists
from China
China’s first atomic
bomb developed in
1964.
6. What was/were the key issue(s) that divided The USSR
and The People’s Republic of China?
If you were President Nixon witnessing this divide,
how could you take advantage of the situation?
7. The United States watched
the split with satisfaction
The US tried to establish
links to China
“The enemy of my enemy is
my friend”
The US lifted trade
restrictions on China in 1969
Richard Nixon agreed to allow China to the UN
This opened the door to warmer US/China relations
8. Mao dies September
9,1976
Successor Deng Xiaoping
A cautious reformer
Wanted to lead China
down a less dramatic
economic path
Introduced the Four
Modernizations
9. Four Modernizations
Industry
Education
Technology
Defense
•Open Door
Policy
-Deng’s belief that
to modernize
China's industry
and boost its
economy it needed
to welcome foreign
direct investment
- US gave China “most
favored nation”
trading status in 1992
10. China’s population reached
over one billion in 1977.
In 1981 Deng launched a
campaign to restrict families
to just one child except under
special circumstances.
Would be punished with fines
and withdrawal of some health
and education benefits.
11. Modernization program transformed life in China’s costal
countries.
The amount of exported goods multiplied five times over
between 1981-1991
Economic growth rates grew 10% per year.
GDP (measure of all goods produced) increased four times.
12. Hong Kong originally seized by the British after the first
Opium War in 1842
Hong Kong had been a reminder of China’s 19th century
weakness and was a center of wealth and prosperity for
British.
Was handed back to the Chinese in 1997 after a 99 year lease.
13. 1986 waves of student protests and demonstrations for
human rights, loss of jobs and rising crime rates.
Citizens gathered in Tiananmen Square for over a month in
the face of news cameras and the government.
June 23, 1986 As students became more outspoken the
government responded with tanks and troops. Soldiers
had orders to fire
The students had been removed from the square and/or
arrested.
China continues to be accused of UN Human Rights
violations.
14.
15. Two China’s
• Educated citizens growing
by
1% per year
• Citizens increasingly
urban,
better educated and
nourished
• Average living conditions
increased 25%
• Greater consumer goods
• Stronger relations with
Western democracies
•Population growth slowed, but most
populous with 1.2 billion
• Populations live on 1/6 of land area
• High pollution
• Authoritarian government
• religious intolerance
• Restrictions on free speech and
media
• Lack of judicial process
• Torture in prisons
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