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Forbidden City: Chinese

Imperial Palace of the former emperor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl-eg-J6Wv4

The Great The Great Wall of Wall of ChinaChina

The Great The Great Wall of Wall of ChinaChina

http://www.history.com/topics/great-wall-of-china

Three Gorges Dam

Purpose: • Control flooding on Chang

River • control river traffic

hydroelectric power

Negative consequences: • 1-2 million people displaced• ecosystems destroyed due

flooding of reservoir.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BlxRBMLpFU

Struggle for China• Mao Zedong:

Communist chairman of China from 1949 to 1976.

• Chang Kai-Shek fought unsuccessfully to stop the communists.

• Fled to Taiwan which is now an autonomous island

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Communism in China• Human rights/civil rights abuses common

under Communist China.

• Censorship: to silence criticism of the government

• China limited western influences (internet, TV Shows etc)

• 1 child policy put into place to slow the population growth.

Hong Kong “One Country Two Systems”

• Large city belonged to England (UK) from 1842-1997

• Autonomous (self governing)• Highly Developed• One of most densely populated

regions in world (crowded!!! )

Tibet & The Dalai Lama (14th) • Dalai Lama holy leader of the

Tibetan Buddhists.

• China refused to grant Tibet its independence after they declared it from China in 1913

• Tibetans are victims of human rights violations by Chinese government.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvVaZfFDKw

Pollution Concerns in China

1979 China passed EPA (Environmental Protection Law)Not enforced

Water Pollution is one of the most serious threats facing China: approx 300 million Chinese are drinking unsafe water.

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North Korea

• Kim Jong iL: Supreme leader, communist, harsh, kept Korea isolated.

• Kim Jong Un: son, supreme leader at his fathers death in December 2011.

• ***Responsible for extreme Human Rights violations

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Japanese Bullet Train

Pearl Harbor• Dec 7, 1941: Japanese

attacked US Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• RESULT: Brings US into WWII

Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• US dropped atomic bombs on Japan: Aug 1945.

• Japan surrendered & was occupied & assisted in rebuilding by US forces.

Korean War

• 1950: N. Korea, invaded S. Korea as part of a plan to spread communism to S Korea.

• 1953: Threat of a nuclear world war ended the war at a stalemate.

• RESULT: Demilitarized Zone: 2.5

mile buffer zone at the 38th parallel where troops from neither side are allowed.

• Two separate countries today.

Vietnam Conflict 1964-1973

• North: Communist • South: pro-Western govt. (non-

communist)

• US Supported the South.

• China, Russia Supported the North

• 1973 US pulled out of Vietnam & N & S Vietnam unified as a communists country.