Red Guards<span>, </span>Chinese (Pinyin) <span>Hongweibing </span>or (Wade-Giles romanization) Hung-wei-ping, in Chinese history, groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). These young people often wore green jackets similar to the uniforms of the Chinese army at the time, with red armbands attached to one of the sleeves. They were formed under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1966 in order to help party chairman Mao Zedong combat “revisionist” authorities—i.e., those party leaders Mao considered as being insufficiently revolutionary. Mao was thus making a bid to regain control of the CCP from his colleagues, but the Red Guards who responded in August 1966 to his summons fancied themselves as new revolutionary rebels pledged to eliminating all remnants of the old culture in China, as well as purging all supposedly bourgeois elements within the government. Several million Red Guards journeyed to Beijing to meet with Mao in eight massive demonstrations late in 1966, and the total number of Red Guards throughout the country may have reached 11 million at some point.
While engaging in marches, meetings, and frenzied propagandizing, Red Guard units attacked and persecuted local party leaders as well as schoolteachers and school officials, other intellectuals, and persons of traditional views. Several hundred thousand people died in the course of these persecutions. By early 1967 Red Guard units were overthrowing existing party authorities in towns, cities, and entire provinces. These units soon began fighting among themselves, however, as various factions vied for power amidst each one’s claims that it was the true representative of Maoist thought. The Red Guards’ increasing factionalism and their total disruption of industrial production and of Chinese urban life caused the government in 1967–68 to urge the Red Guards to retire into the countryside. The Chinese military was called in to restore order throughout the country, and from this point the Red Guard movement gradually subsided.
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1. It was not very successful, in part because Germany was treated more harshly than planned, and because the US was not even a part of the League.
2. This is your opinion. I would say yes because there would be extra help
3. Wilson subsequently used the Fourteen Points as the basis for negotiating the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war. Although the Treaty did not fully realize Wilson's unselfish vision, the Fourteen Points still stand as the most powerful expression of the idealist strain in United States diplomacy.
4. strengths
- a plan for the breaking down of trade barriers between different countries. Wilson hoped that countries would remove barriers (like tariffs or embargoes) so that countries all over the world could trade goods.
- to grant sovereignty to nations like Austria-Hungary.
weaknesses
-the creation of the League of Nations. This was supposed to be an international peace keeping body. However, there was no way to enforce international peace, as countries were not necessarily forced to provide military assistance when asked by the League.
- to try to reduce the amount of military weapons/armaments for each country. This would rely on countries to voluntarily give up resources, which ended up being a wildly unpopular idea.
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The correct answer is C. What General William Howe ferried across Boston Harbor were redcoats, who were going to fight against the patriots in the American Revolutionary War.
Explanation:
General William Howe arrived in Boston on May 15, 1775, at the head of an army of 4,000 men sent to support General Thomas Gage, who was under siege in the city.
