... provided for elections to be held in both the North and South for the reunification of the two in 1956. Diem refused to hold the elections on the basis that a fair election was not possible in the one-party system of the North. This drew charges that he had breached the Geneva agreement. During the first Indo-Chinese war, the United States with their anti-colonial stance had ... series of Communist-led strikes within Australia led to the fear of an international communist movement replacing the fear of rearmed, resurgent Japan as the main threat to Australia's security. When the Korean...

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... by Great Leap Forward. This event proceeded the Hundred Flowers movement initiated by Mao. Peng Dehuai In 1954, Peng Dehuai gained legitimacy on the Northern Expedition as a Communist general. As a commander of the Chinese forces, Peng rallied his forces during the Korean War in 1950. Under his commandership, in December the Chinese pushed the allies back. While he was a key figure in the Korean War, Peng Dehui was also a notable commander of ... the Long March. In 1959, however, Peng was eliminated from his ... ...

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... the facts of the crisis. The antithesis to this close alliance idea with the Soviets is that Mao wanted to test the limits of the their support of him and the anti-imperialist struggles across the globe. Mao was dismayed by the fact that the Soviets did not pursue aiding the resistance forces in the Middle East, and he was dismayed over the lack of support that they had given China in the Korean War ... , Formosa would eventually fall to the communist and the next free world position that the US would withdraw from would be Berlin. The perceived impact of this would be the eventual fall o...

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... defeated Kuomintang and fled to Taiwan with Mao Zedong's Red Army in hot pursuit. Taiwan was regarded by the United States of America as being of no strategic significance and seemed destined to be taken over by the Chinese Communist Party. However, with the outbreak of the Korean War on 25 June 1950, Taiwan became an important anchor in a US defensive chain'. During that period, US ... Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles claimed that the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's Government of Taiwan would jeopardize America's offshore defences. ... Over the next two decades, Taiwan became an Am...

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... strategists believe that a rising China hopes to push the United States out of Asia and tries to replace the United States' status in the East Asia, and their Chinese counterparts consider that America is seeking hegemony in the Eastern Asia and the world. In their mind, US is becoming more aggressive after Iraq's war. Ambassador Richard Haass said on December 5 last year, "What will this rise in ... in Beijing, Chinese officials faithfully conveyed messages between the U.S. and North Korea, and then Chinese officials have called Pyongyang's attention to the dangerous consequences of it...

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... diversity has always been a major achievement, and keeping it stably unified has always been difficult. When China broke apart into regional polities, chaos and war usually occurred. This usually created the right atmosphere for the development of Buddhism and Taoism. On the other hand, when China was a unified whole, Confucianism usually got an upper hand. It was during those periods that China's influence abroad began ... Families in China 1. Sino-Tibetan Language Family: e.g. Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Mao, Yak 2. Altaic Language Family: e.g. Mongolian, Turkic, Tungusic Manchu, Korea...

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