Homework
Length: 800 to 1000 words.
• How do we understand the Korean War in the broader regional and global contexts in the aftermath of WWII? Was the Korean War merely a contest between two opposing Cold War camps? Or was it in significant ways a civil conflict with deep roots in the social and political conditions in the Peninsula? The post-WWII Chinese and Korean political and military conflicts shared significant similarities, but why didn't the Chinese Civil War of the late 1940s escalate into a wider, international conflict?
• What social and political crises of modern China-both domestic and international-did the Nationalist and Communist Parties attempt to address? What were their respective diagnoses and solutions, and what were their similarities and differences? How adequate or inadequate were the solutions offered by both political movements? Why did the Nationalists and Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) lose the battle, while Mao's Communists were able to seize power and create a new state?
• Imperialism presented great challenges to various East Asian societies at critical junctures of their historical evolution. What were these challenges, and the unique historical circumstances in which crises took place? How did the societies under pressure respond to challenges through reform, modernization, and revolution? Why did some reform projects succeed while others failed and led to revolutionary crises?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
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