I realized I can’t find the essay on the Occupation of Asia by Japan…
No choice.. Have to post on SCAP: Post-war recovery of Japan instead.

By the way, “SCAP” is short for “Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers”

Japan’s post war situation did not look promising. Most of her major cities ...

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Bolsheviks consolidated power militarily, socially, economically and politically.

Politically, they signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918), which marked the withdrawal from war. Armistice between Russia and Central Powers agreed in Dec 1917 ceased hostilities. Russia suffered major losses that adversely ...

Last week was on Mao’s economic policies. These week will be on his Political Policies and the Cultural Revolution…

Mao implemented political policies after the fall of Kuomintang to set up a socialist state along Maoist lines and consolidate CCP’s power.

In September 1954, the National People’s Congress was formed with ...

Mao Zedong is an important figures in modern world history and till now is still quite a controversial figure…

So here’s a look at his economic policies…

From 1949, Mao implemented economic policies after coming into power to prove that Chinese communism would be a success in bringing about economic growth.

In agriculture, ...

This is the second essay about china. The first was about 1920-1936.
Read about History of China: 1920-1936…

Now for 1936 to 1949…

The CCP gained some support from Jiangxi, but it was insufficient for a revolution. Realizing that only a unified China could defeat the Japanese with the rise of ...

China was one of the more focused on topics when I was learning history…. To me, it was also one of the more troublesome topics due to the amount of things that I have to remember.. Looking back at these essays, I really wonder how I remembered all of them…

We ...

A continuation of last weeks Stalin: Power Struggle essay…

Stalin was constantly suspecting a coup or assassination, as well as conspiracies against him.
There was a need to rid the country of anti-Communist elements. Stalin wanted total power for himself and wanted to terrify and disorientate population to prevent assembly ...

This is one topic which was quite hilarious at that time when I attended the class. The class took the incidents and saw it as a boxing match…. Such wonderful memories of the History class…

Stalin and Trotsky struggled for power after Lenin’s death, with Stalin succeeding for various reasons.

The struggle ...

MAD atmostphere and and insecure feelings must have plagued everyone during this time… That its the nature of a cold war. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is on the minds of many.

So here is the beginning of the Cold War….

Cold War was a period of tense relations and suspicion that existed ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first elected President of the Russian Federation following the fall of the Soviet Union.

He came to power in 1991 amid high expectations but his rule was plagued by a number of crisis in the political and economic front. He was succeeded by Vladimir Putin ...