Mao began to see his influence weakening so he began by setting up a power struggle. It was called the cultural revolution.
He believed the current governments in both the Soviet Union and China were placing too much emphasis on outstanding intellectual and engineering pursuits and not enough on ideological purity.
At the time of his death, 1.5 million people had been killed. The economy was in tatters and there was a 12% reduction in the population. That means that the 1.5 million really does not account for the 12% reduction in population.
He shut down the schools so that the main participants in this class war were students and the youth. They made life unbearable for the elderly. It disrupted the natural flow of the Chinese centuries old set of traditions where it was the duty of the young to care for the old.
Once Mao died, Chou en Lei took power and calmed things down. Mao was one of the monsters of world leaders to rule in the mid 20th century. He joins the ranks of Stalin and Hitler.
The correct answer is 3, as one result of Western imperial interest in East Asia during the 1800s was that Japan rose from an isolated society to a major industrial and imperial power.
Japan remained isolated from Western influences until 1853, when Matthew Perry signed on behalf of the United States the Kanagawa Treaty, in order to open Japanese ports to trade with America.
For a long period, the restored contact with the West caused changes in Japanese society. After a strong civil conflict called Boshin war, the shogunate was forced to resign and the power was returned to the emperor. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 initiated several reforms. The feudal system was abolished and numerous Western institutions were adopted, including a Western legal and governmental system, along with other economic, social and military reforms that transformed Japan into a medium-high world power. As a result of the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Japan annexed Taiwan, Korea and other territories to its expanding empire.
Thus it definitively established itself as a world power and the only one in Asia. After the First World War, 1918, Japan occupied a solid position in the Far East; It had the most powerful armed forces in the area, had great influence over China and had benefited economically from the war (it took care of the orders of the Asian countries, which the rest of the powers did not manage to attend).
<em>In the </em><em>late 19th century</em><em>, immigrants came to the United States in droves. The absolute number of immigrants in the country rose from less than </em><em>2.5 </em><em>million in </em><em>1850 </em><em>to more than </em><em>13.5 </em><em>million in </em><em>1910</em><em>. That boosted immigrants as a share of the population to </em><em>15%</em><em>, from </em><em>10%</em><em>, over the period.</em>
Answer:
"By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament"
