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- 331: The World's Longest War
- ... much better off with this self restraint. Furthermore the separation of church and state is spelled out in our constitution and is practiced in most countries of the world, even in the former USSR and China. In democracies it is legal for a political party to yearn for religious domination, but in all democratic countries such parties are very small and never reach the stage of challenging their constitutions. The name ... and with bombs. Since killing infidels is entree to heaven, they are today's suicide Kamikazes. The second front is armament. Conventional warfare capability in guns, tanks, rockets, and airplanes from the former USSR and China, in large armies of men, now exists and is growing. Mustard gas and nerve gas are made in their own factories with equipment bought from European and American companies. (Lenin said 'The capitalists will sell ... to hang them with.') The third front is the development of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them. (Kamikaze airplanes will do as well, as will smuggling.) Large, long range missiles are bought from China to deliver present poison gas, germs, and the future "Islamic bomb. "What will any American or European government do when threatened with a destroyed city? Cave in to the blackmailers, of course. The fourth ...
- 332: Taoism
- ... This means that if one follows a certain divine way, then one will be rewarded, but if disobedient of the natural, and divine way, then one will be punished. These concepts and beliefs originated in China around Sixth Century BC by Lao-tzu. Lao-tzu was the first among all the religious teachers to understand the true meaning of the Tao (Hume 133). Lao-tzu believed in the goodness of nature ... a so-called pope, who is in charge of all the priests (Hodous 139). Even though Taoism is on the verge of extinction, there are still temples to worship the religion in countries outside of China (Wolcott 77). Taoism still has a great impact on life and the human race, even though it is almost gone and forgotten. The ideas of Taoism influenced many other religions. For instance, Taoism and Buddhism ... afterlife and how they worship. Buddhism has gotten some of its ideas on the afterlife from Taoism, like how to behave and how to worship the spirits (Gaer 150). It has also influenced modern day China, particularly in medicine. The Chinese use a lot of natural substances in their medicines, in many of their household items and their food. Chinese people make their medicines mostly from the nature around them ( ...
- 333: K0rean War
- ... South Korean troops had captured the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang. This forced the North Koreans to retreat north. The two troops led by MacArthur and Walker split. MacArthur went northeastern towards the North Korea-China border. The other went in to northeastern parts of North Korea. Despite Chinese warnings, MacArthur ordered the troops to go on until they fought the Chinese on October 25. On November 6, the Chinese decided to withdraw. Convinced that his troops outnumbered the Chinese, MacArthur ordered to attack on November 24. In reality, China had a force of 300,000 which it sent on November 26 and 27 to defeat the UN forces. On December 4, the UN forces began to withdraw from Pyongyang. Meanwhile, the North Koreans advanced ... parallel. Sometimes this duration of time is called "Battle for the Hills". On April 11, 1951, Truman suspended MacArthur from command. This was because MacArthur wanted to use bombs on Manchuria which would directly involve China. Truman's administrations disagreed because they were afraid of another World War. He was replaced with Ridgway. Even though peace talks began in July, the war went on for two more long years. On ...
- 334: The Future Looks Bright For Ja
- ... Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. No one was killed, radiation did not escape the plant, however, the reactor suffered a partial meltdown of the fuel rods, creating fears of a China Syndrome (2) disaster. This fear was exacerbated by the movie "China Syndrome" that was coincidentally making the theater circuits. Leaking water severely damaged the nuclear fuel core in a reactor, which caused radioactive gas to be released in the Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant. Over ... become the energy source of the future. (1) Nuclear fusion is also a potential source of unlimited electrical power, but controlled nuclear fusion has remained an elusive target for high-energy physicists. (2) The term China Syndrome describes a hypothetical nuclear accident in which uncontrolled fission causes the fuel rods to become so hot that they and the containment vessel around them, and the earth below melts, with the entire ...
- 335: Overpopulation
- ... home and it is almost impossible for an individual ant to carry a big fly home but it become much easier if the all the ants work together to carry that big fly home. In China they have the one child policy, because the population in China is too big at this moment. It increasing day by day and if they do not have a suitable solution for this problem it can be a disaster. However, there are a lot of problems for this solution in China because people in Asia still keep their attitude about having boy or girl. Furthermore for some people they go oversea and have more than one child they will not dare to go back their ...
- 336: Bubonic Plague
- ... it may have started in Africa or India. Colonies of infected rats were established in Northern India, many years ago. Some of these rodents had infected traders on the route between the Middle East and China. After 1330 the plague had invaded China. From China it was transferred westward by traders and Mongol armies in the 14th century. While these traders were travelling westward they followed a more northerly route through the grasslands of what is now Russia, establishing ...
- 337: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... Eastern Europe and portions of Asia. The Federal Government began to view this as a threat to national security, fearing that the United States might be the next domino to fall. When Communist forces captured China, the United States began to fear that it had under-estimated the strength of communism. To the American Government, communism seemed to loom as an increasingly threatening menace, conquering the rest of the world by knocking over democratic regimes like dominos. Seeing that two of the largest nations in the world had fallen to communism, i.e. Russia and China, America began to fear that it might be the next domino in the procession. Rather than allow this trend to continue in the manner that it was going, the U.S. government decided to adopt ... U.S. was no longer the only country with an Atomic bomb, it felt less secure than it had a few years earlier when it, alone, had nuclear weapons. Between 1949 and 1951, Communists captured China, the USSR exploded its first Atomic bomb, and the Korean War began. In the minds of the American people, communism posed a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. A ...
- 338: Cost Of Wwii
- ... spent an estimated $341 billion during World War II. However, this did include $50 billion for lend-lease supplies, of which $31 billion went to Britain, $11 billion to the Soviet Union, $5 billion to China, and $3 billion to thirty five other countries. Once totals were all added up, the United States was found to have spent the most on the war by far. Germany was next, having spent $272 ... murder's of the Jews and other groups. Hitler's concentration camps and the deportation of thousands also contributed greatly(See pictures M & O). Outside the Soviet Union the heaviest losses were most likely in China. Estimates of the Chinese losses vary from less than 3,000,000 to up to 15,000,000. It is believed that higher figures give a more precise picture of the losses in China. Compared to the other nations, the Western allies escaped lightly. The United States lost less than 300,000 people and Britain lost under 500,000. The countries of the British Empire lost an additional ...
- 339: Capital Punishment
- ... it with varying frequency. Shooting and hanging are the two most common methods of execution followed by beheading and lethal injection which is becoming almost universal in America and is also used in the Philippines, China and Guatemala. Electrocution and the gas chamber are used only in America and seem to be disappearing rapidly. Stoning for sexual offences including adultery occurs in some Islamic countries. China with a quarter of the world's population carries out the most executions (by shooting) for a wide variety of offences. (During 1998, along with Guatemala and the Philippines, China has begun to move toward the use of lethal injection) America. In all states, other than Texas, the number of executions as compared to death sentences and murders is infinitesimally small. Of the 598 ...
- 340: Cuba- A Bright Future
- ... the island, and gave even the poorest of peasants the opportunity at a university education. It is impossible to decipher an image of the Cuban government simply from looking at such Communist counterparts a s China. China is an extreme case of Communism, Cuba on the other hand is more lenient in its views. In fact, Cuba is developing quite the keen business sense. Some say the island is even flourishing ... has, for an island of its size and political strength, a fair number of trained professionals and institutions of higher learning. Today, Cuba brings in students from all over, but specifically ones from Communist China and many of the surrounding islands. Economy: Throughout the fifties, Cuba was gaining a booming economy. Many American company's built factories there and employed a great deal of the population. Also, tourism was ...
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