Download Chapetr 29 East Asia By Alexis Cantillo

Alexis Cantillo
March 31, 2009
Period 1
A.P. World History
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The Manchurian Incident of 1931 occurred late in the
evening of September 18. 1931. (National Diet Library
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An explosion on the South Manchurian Railway took
place on this night. ( Spodek 587)
The Junior officers of the Japanese army had been
frustrated by the fact that their superiors were being
cautious. (Bulliet 776)
The explosion of the railroad gave the army an excuse
to conquer the province of Manchuria. (Bulliet 776)
This “incident” is also known as the Mukden Incident.
(National Diet Library 1)
After this incident, the Chinese began to boycott
Japanese goods. (Bulliet 776)
This angered the Japanese, and they took over
Shanghai and the area around Beijing. (Bulliet 776)
The League of Nations disapproved of Japan’s actions
and urged Japan to remove their troops from China.
(Bulliet 776)
Japan did not wish to do so, so they resigned from the
League of Nations. (Bulliet 776)
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The communists were the main challenge to the
government. (Bulliet 776)
The Chinese communist Party was founded in
1921. (Overfield 338)
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek began to arrest end
execute communists. (Spodek 465)
Mao Zedong became a leader of the communist
party. (Bulliet 777)
Mao began studying the conditions of peasants.
(Bulliet 777)
Mao also supported women’s rights. (Bulliet
777)
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The Long March lasted one year, from 1934mages/ChinaImages/MaoandPeasants.jpg
1935. (Ask 1)
The communist party found themselves
encircled by the government while they were in
Jiangxi. (Ask 1)
Mao and his followers broke out of the southern
mountains to go to Shaanxi. (Bulliet 777)
The march was 6,000 miles and only 4,000
soldiers survived the march. (Bulliet 777)
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The reason the Sino-Japanese War started
was the fact that the Japanese leaders
could not solve the economic problem the
country was in. (Bulliet 777)
The junior officers took matters into their
own hands by invading China. (Princeton
254)
Although the Chinese army was large and
fought bravely, they lost every battle.
(Bulliet 777)
The Chinese army was also poorly led
and poorly armed.
Japan bombed three cities, Hangzhou,
Nanjing, and Guangzhou. (Bulliet 777)
However, these bombings did not bring
victory to Japan. (Bulliet 777)
Japan then dropped two atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Military 1)
These were the bombings that forced
China to surrender the war. (Military 1)
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Books
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Andrea, Alfred J., and James H. Overfield. Human
Record. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
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Bulliet, Richard W., Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R.
Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, and
David Northrup. The Earth And Its Peoples A Global
History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
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Princeton. Cracking the AP World History Exam. 2009th
ed.
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Spodek, Howard. The World's History.
Websites
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Ask. "The Long March 1934 to 1935." Ask.com. 29 Mar.
2009
<http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/long_march_193
4_to_1935.htm>.
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Military. "The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)." 29
Mar. 2009 <http://www.militaryquotes.com/forum/second-sino-japanese-war-1937-at12715.html>.
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National Diet Library. "4-1 Manchurian Incident of 1931."
National Diet Library. 29 Mar. 2009
<http://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/cha4/description01.
html#logo>.
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