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World History Dbq

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During the 20th century different regions and countries of the extra European world –Japan, China, India, the Middle East and Latin America- have been invested by profound transformations, that in part went to aliment the tensions that later would have brought to the second world war, and in part determined the beginning of the process of decolonization .

3.1 Independence and unity to restore national sovereignty

In the lapse of time between the two world wars, China was experiencing the so called ‘awakening’. In 1912 the empire was abolished and the republic was announced, but it fell into the hands of a ruling class subjected to the Japanese hegemony. Sun Yat-sen, who had already played a key role in the events of 1911-1912, after the …show more content…

This was and still is an important aspect of Chinese foreign politics, or else the sacred mission to recover lost territories and their territorial integrity was a solemn international guarantee. In 1945, China, the USA , Britain and the Soviet Union launched the Constituent assembly of the United Nations in San Francisco and China secured its place as one of the permanent members of the UN security council. China therefore demonstrated an active role in international affairs and the long term effects have been protected.(Van Ness & …show more content…

In foreign relations, trade had a marginal value and foreign investment both inwards and outwards were essentially absent. One of the greatest failures of Mao’s notable project ‘Great Leap Forward’ in 1958 turned out to be one of the greatest failures as it was intended to collectivize all agricultural, industrial and service life under people's communes and militias’ control . The first consequence of this measure was an economic autarky that led to one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. Developments in international policy pushed China towards a gradual isolation and growing conflicts. Eventually China's international political and economic relations degenerated and led to a serious military confrontation with its main ally, the Soviet Union and fighting a border war with India in the 60s. Isolation, political and economic, reaches its highest levels with the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 until 1976 .

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