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Homework for over the break:
• Watch TV, read a newspaper article, look at a political cartoon… anything related to Israel/Palestine– Write a summary of what you saw/read– What is your opinion– 8 sentences– Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?
--1994 BCE-1800 CE Various Dynasties
Silk road
Gunpowder
Moveable type
--1842, Opium War & the Treaty of Nanjing
Trade imbalance with UK UK started shipping opium to China
Chinese fought back
Unequal treaty
--Spheres of Influence
European countries carved China up, took control of certain areas &
demanded trading rights
-- 1850-1864; Taiping RebellionChinese rebellion against European imperialism and spheres of influenceSupported by Chinese Government
-- 1900; Boxer RebellionFists of righteous Harmony started killing white missionaries and traders in ChinaNot supported by the Chinese Government
Both are struggles against foreign influence in China
--1911; Civil War
Nationalists (Jiang Jeshzi)
Communists (Mao Zedong)
--1931-1945; Japanese Imperialism
Rape of Nanking
Greater East Asia Co prosperity Sphere
1949 Mao established Communist Government in China
Defeated the nationalists
Tried to Modernize China
Didn’t get along with the USSR
--1965 Cultural Revolution
Great Leap forward failed
Army of young people helped arrest, imprison & kill millions of “anti-Mao” Chinese
Deng Xiaoping
• Introduced capitalism to Chinese economy
• Reformer (like Gorbachev)
Tiananmen Square
• 1,000,000’s of students protested for DEMOCRACY
• Students were killed, or jailed… it was a massacre