How accurate is it to say that Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies from 1949 were the most important reason for the famine of 1959–62? In October 1949‚ the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established and led by Mao Zedong. China’s new communist leaders turned their backs on China’s traditional output (based on individual and small scale household production) economy and set out to create a massive socialist industrial government inspired by the Soviet Union. This idea introduced a model‚
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are now a model‚ not just for retail‚ but all companies across the United States and the world. Walmart is setting new standards that firms need to follow in order to even compete. They are the paradox of economies of scale. So‚ how did Walmart get to be as successful as it is today? Walmart is the epitome of one-stop-shopping‚ with a cornucopia of differing products at the lowest prices. They make their money from high volume and very fast turnover. Walmart is also an efficiency machine when it
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1975‚ the tensions that had been building up as a result of the Zionist destabilization of the region ignited on Lebanese soil when 30 unarmed Palestinians on board a bus got slaughtered in the Ain El Remaneh region‚ buy supporters of the Phalange party. The Lebanese civil war is the result of a conflict between one mentality that refuses to share Lebanon‚ willing to partition it if sharing was forced upon it‚ and another that claims its own right to defend the Palestinian cause in its own country
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How successful were Stalin’s economic policies in the 1930s? Although it is unarguable to deny that there was certain economic progress in Stalinist Russia throughout the 1930s‚ it is understandable to postulate that the policies implicated under Stalin’s regime were merely introduced primarily to consolidate his political hold on the USSR. During this period‚ Stalin placed particular emphasis on Industrialisation and the abolition of older methods of peasant-controlled farming to be replaced with
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What were the successes and failures of the League of Nations in the 1920s? The League of Nations could stop small wars and improved some people’s lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles‚ get disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The
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made it out (Moore‚ Online). Through the Russian movement the outwardly stubborn man of Napoleon started to fall apart at the foundation‚ and after many serious errors‚ the foundation was destroyed. Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812 resulted in failure. Napoleon deployed his armies into Russia in June of 1812. The
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How successfully did the National Government deal with the economic problems of the 1930s? In dealing with the economic depression of the 1930s‚ it is my opinion that the recovery of Britain was mainly due to the stages of rearmament in the run-up to the Second World War. This is not to say‚ however‚ that the National Government failed to combat the rises in unemployment‚ reaching a peak of three million‚ and the ruined staple industries‚ they implemented several policies to reboot the
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What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. Apple Successes Three of Apple’s biggest successes are the iPod‚ iTunes‚ and iPhone. Introduced in 2001 the iPod offered consumers and easy interface to house up to 1000 “on the go” songs. For Apple‚ the iPod offered a monopoly type product with high margins. The iTunes application also rolled out in 2001 and offered users and easy interface to search and download music and movies. In 2002‚ Apple released the Windows
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From our earliest school days we have been aware of Christopher Columbus and of how he found the Americas; however what else is known about the voyage? Has a deeper perspective been taken on the subject? Consider what influenced him to travel‚ what led him to being able to explore‚ how did he win over the support of those who financed his voyages‚ or even what else he accomplished while he was venturing. For no reason in particular teachers have left out key details as mentioned previously‚ after
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Mao Zedong was a bad leader for China. While Mao was in power‚ many people lost their lives due to the Red Guards. The Red Guards were enforcing Mao’s policies because they thought that was the correct thing to do. The Red Guards assaulted people who held different opinions regarding the change in the culture of China. This resulted in people losing their lives ( Schwartz‚ 5). For example‚ when the peasants challenged Mao’s opinion about what they were told to do during the Great Leap Forward they
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