Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution
When and where did the Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution happen?
What is in China, from 1958-1962.
When and where did the Tiananmen Square Massacre happen?
What is on May 20, in Beijing, China.
When did the US help Japan begin to rebuild itself?
What is on 1945.
When did the Korean War break out?
What is 1950.
When did the Vietnam War break out?
What is in 1965.
What was a cause of the Great Leap Forward?
What is to industrialize by making use of the massive supply of cheap labour and avoid having to import heavy machinery.
What was a cause of the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
What is the corruption of the Communist Party. The control of the economy was working badly. The country was poor, and city dwellers got the worst of it.
What was a cause of rebuilding Japan?
What is to prevent the country from ever becoming an aggressive military power again.
What was a cause of the Korean War.
What is the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What was a cause of the Vietnam War?
What is the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and European imperialism in Vietnam.
What was an impact of the Great Leap Forward?
What is the result in tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 15 and 55 million deaths, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest in human history.
What was an impact of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
What is the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that ended with a military crackdown, which is also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or June Fourth Massacre.
What was an impact of rebuilding Japan?
What is downgrading the emperor's status to that of a figurehead without political control and placing more power in the parliamentary system, promoting greater rights and privileges for women, and renouncing the right to wage war.
What was an impact of the Korean War?
What is the Korean civilian casualties - dead, wounded and missing - totalled between three and four million during the three years of war (1950-1953). The war was disastrous for all of Korea, destroying most of its industry.
What was an impact of the Vietnam War?
What is the severely damaged U.S. economy. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation. The war also weakened U.S. military morale and undermined, for a time, the U.S. commitment to internationalism.
How did the Great Leap Forward cause famine?
What is the major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, such as inefficient distribution of food due to the planned economy, requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques, and the Four Pests Campaign that reduced bird populations.
What did the students in Tiananmen Square protest for?
What is the Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China.
What was one reason that the US helped Japan rebuild after WWII?
What is the U.S. wanted to take all of Japan's resources. The U.S. did not want Japan to drop atomic bombs on the U.S. The U.S. wanted to create a strong democracy in the region (against communist China).
How did the US respond to the Korean War?
What is on June 24, 1950, the North Koreans invaded South Korea. A few days later, Truman ordered U.S. troops to the aid of South Korea and convinced the United Nations (UN) to send military aid as well, in what was referred to in diplomatic circles as a “police action.”
Why did the US fight the Vietnam War?
What is the U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles.
What was a commune in the Great Leap Forward?
What is the People's communes were formed in support of the Great Leap Forward campaign and remains an inseparable part of the campaign, as shown in the Three Red Banners propaganda poster. Each commune was a combination of smaller farm collectives and consisted of 4,000–5,000 households.
Who stopped the tank in Tiananmen Square?
What is Shao Jiang, who was a student leader, said: "I witnessed a lot of the people standing up, blocking the tanks." Tank Man is unique in that he is the only one who was photographed and recorded on video.
How did Japan recover from WWII?
What is the Japanese economy survived from the deep recession caused by a loss of the U.S. payments for military procurement and continued to make gains. By the late 1960s, Japanhad risen from the ashes of World War II to achieve an astoundingly rapid and complete economic recovery.
Why did Canada respond to the Korean War?
What is the Canadians' two main adversaries during the war were the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in the Battle of Kapyong. Canada's military objective was to give military support towards the resolution of the war on the central front, which was central Korea.
What started Vietnam War?
What is the United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam's government and military since Vietnam's partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954. Tensions escalated into armed conflict between the two sides.