This question is part of the old "Who lost China?" discussion. One of Gordon Tullock's lesser known books is Open Secrets of American Foreign Policy. He also wrote a draft paper with the same title (pdf) in 2004. In the section on the Chinese Civil War I found the passage below (emphasis added):
With the collapse of Japan and the invasion of Manchuria by Russia, everyone tried to occupy the newly vacated areas. The Communists withdrew the bulk of their forces into Manchuria where they were re-equipped by the Russians, mainly with Japanese arms. They also acquired the Japanese armament factories there. The Nationalists moved to replace the Japanese and Communists in the rest of China although some Communists still remained south of the Great wall. The Provincial governors-warlords also took advantage of the opportunity. Most of them held formal commissions in the National army or civil service.
The Nationalists then moved north and invaded Manchuria. The Communists tried to stop them and at Su Ping Kai the Nationalists won a major victory. The United States quickly slammed an arms embargo on the Nationalists. What led General Marshall to do this is has never been explained.
Its ostensible objective was to force the Nationalists to form a coalition government with the Communists. At this time preventing such coalitions in France and Italy was a major objective of American foreign policy.
I remember seeing a newsreel in which reporters asked President Truman why he was trying to set up a coalition with the Communists in China and trying to prevent similar coalitions in France and Italy. He responded simply by saying that a coalition between the Nationalists and Communists in China was very important and did not mention France and Italy.
I assume the battle to which he refers is the latter part of the Campaign to Defend Siping.
Tullock goes on to say that the embargo was lifted only with the outbreak of the Korean War. He acknowledges that it's "not obvious" that the Nationalists would have won without the embargo.
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In 1958 the US marines landed in Beirut after the Lebanese president asked them for help.
Today I saw a post of facebook showing a picture of those marines marching under a confederate flag.
There is no mention anywhere online of the use of the confederate flag in the US army, so how come is it used here?
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=926225107535588&id=161440090680764
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As in, at what date/war would you say rhe ottoman empire was NOT salvageable or able to survive WW1/Post WW1 without a literal miracle?
Some people say as soon as they lost the siege of vienna, others refer to the loss of crimea by the russians and others say when they lost the balkans.
Also, as a bonus question, IF the Ottoman Empire did survive past WW1, do you think it would survive to see the 50s? 60s? Modern era?
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In addition to this question, how did the successor states in the region view Alexander after his death?
Did his Greek contemporaries remember him fondly?
Are there any records of how Rome felt about him in, and shortly after, his time, or did they acquire knowledge of him after they conquered Greece?
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Did it happen within the lifetimes of African born slaves, or did it take one or two generations?
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Many years ago I started reading a novel (that was missing the ending) about a Greek veteran of the Persian invasions with a head wound who couldn’t recall events of the previous day, so took to writing them down on a scroll he had to re-read each morning. There was a reference to him and his companions being taken prisoner/ as slaves to the “City of Rope” in the central Peloponnesus, that the accompanying map inferred was the city of Sparta. Was there an actual city called Sparta, and/or an ancient Greek city with the name of “ROPE”?
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When did Italian culture become separate (grow up) from Roman culture, if ever? How much do we know about the culture of the Italian peninsula after the western empire’s fall? When did Italian become distinct from Latin?
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I found it interesting the inscription mentioned in Thomas Asbridge's "The Crusades: The War For The Holy Land" describes Christians as polytheists and I was wondering how Christianity was viewed by Islam at this time. Specifically what lead to them to referring to Christians as polytheists?
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Im not sure where to post this, sorry if this is the wrong sub.
I'm taking my first history class in college so far, my teacher says i need to use Chicago style citing instead of MLA.
On the footnotes, he says i need to use a shortened version of the source instead of the original if i use the source more than once.
Im only referencing one book and am completely lost and spent atleast 45 min. looking online for an answer. please help..
here's my citation and the comment he left on my first paper
citation: Demos, John. The heathen school: a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early republic (New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014), 76.
comment: "You may use the short form for all notes after the 1st" "work on the notes themselves, after the first full note it's not necessary to repeat all that info again and again"
thanks
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Hi. I recently had gallbladder surgery, and living it being bad inside me before the surgery was pretty terrible and made me have a restrictive diet. I was wondering how they would handle someone back in the medieval days having symptoms of an organ being bad, and what that was like on the person displaying symptoms. Thanks!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjUu1Bt29o&t=559s I was recently watching this video by a YouTube channel called History Buffs about the historical accuracy of The Kingdom of Heaven. At around 9:10, he goes off saying that Muslims had been continuously aggressive to the Christian world prior to the First Crusade. Not only is this disappointing coming from someone touting himself as a history buff but it also is incredibly fallacious because he falls into the problem of generalizing a culture that spans a wide geography and were not always united over their goals during those centuries. But because I keep hearing this "Crusades as a defensive war" theory pop up so often nowadays, it does beg the question: Did medieval Europeans themselves feel threatened by those Muslims across the sea? If someone knows of first hand accounts from the time, that would actually be great.
For me I've seen the Crusades as being catalyzed by Emperor Alexios' call for help against the invading Turks as the actual cause for the Crusades. I never really got the sense that Christian Europeans were united enough nor cared enough about taking arms overseas to attack the Muslim states at the time because they felt threatened by the possibility of invasion.
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I assume the time period they are tying this claim to is the late republic, as that is when the game takes place. I was under the impression that any male citizen could vote regardless of serving in the military.
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I am going off of a scene in the movie "Amadeus" where the Emperor Joseph comes to visit one of Mozart's rehearsals and one of the scenes that has ballet in it has had the music removed by the Court Music Director due to imperial decree - much to the detriment of the performance. In the movie the Emperor orders the music back in. Was this actually a law, and, if so, what was the reason behind it?
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This is a question I have often when I'm studying Caribbean history (but feel free to answer this with as broad a geographic scope as you like). For instance, there are different theories on where the Taino peoples that inhabited most of the Caribbean islands originated-- the Amazon and Andes are sometimes proposed. I'm interested in how Native American peoples would have navigated, what kinds of vessels they used, etc.
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I'm learning about the Mexican revolution and I'm a bit confused on what the Constitutionalists, Zapata, and Villa stood for. What did each group seek to reform and how did they plan to achieve it? Why didn't they work together?
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This came up when I was talking to my British friend. I was mentioning how in malls in the South you can find stores wall to wall with camo and Confederate Flags. After talking for a bit he asked why the North decided to take back the South? I honestly didn't know. In retrospect the war did seem a little costly to do on a whim so I'm looking for an informed answer on the subject. I had trouble finding the answer on the wiki, so I was wondering if anyone who was more informed than I was could let me know. Thanks.
Edit: I'm bad at spelling/grammar: succeed -> secede.
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