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This is known as the Anaconda Plan.
This military strategy, developed by Union General Winfield Scott, was meant to starve the Confederacy out of their resources. Essentially, Scott felt that if the Confederacy could not trade for goods with other countries they would not be able to survive. This is due to the Confederacy's reliance on cotton as their main cash crop.
This strategy helps to explain why the US wanted to blockade trade with other countries as well as why the Union wanted to control the Mississippi River, as they knew control of this waterway could negatively impact the Confederacy's ability to transport/obtain resources.
After the fall of the Ching Dynasty, the Republic of China (RoC) emerged. However it was riven by internal strife. Much of the early years was spent fighting the various warlords. After the death RoCs founder Sun Yat-Sun, he was succeeded by Chiang Kai Shek aka Generalissimo. He spent much of his time building up the Chinese army and fighting other warlords and the Communists. It was effectively strongman politics. Sun Yat-Sun and Chiang Kai Shek were not elected, so in a sense, similar to Communists. Chiang was aligned with the West. Mao with the Soviets. An interesting bit of trivia is that the crack Chinese units were trained by the Germans. They gave a good account in the Battle for Shanghai, although their strength was depleted after that. This is why some Chinese officers used the Mauser C96 aka Broomhandle pistol.
Answer:
It led to the collapse of the military power that had held the Soviet Union together, causing the union to dissolve.
Explanation:
Mikhail Gorbachev reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe lead to the collapse of communism. Gorbachev promoted a new policy called glasnost. He promoted the democratization of society hoping for the participation of ordinary citizens. Gorbachev withdrew the Soviet army from Afghanistan. He released Eastern Europe from Soviet domination, permitting the dismissal of the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet military alliance in the area and stopped nuclear testing.
