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1
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What are the immediate impacts of Japan’s WWII surrender?

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Bureaucrats erase evidence of wartime activities, “recreation and amusement centers”, economic opportunities and entrepreneurship, food shortages, major social problems: alcohol, drugs, robbery, theft

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Who is MacArthur?

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Supreme commander for allied powers (SCAP)

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2 goals of american occupation

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Demilitarize & democratize

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How does the U.S. Demilitarize Japan?

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Disband military, special police, Tokyo trial

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How does the U.S. “Clean the soil of militarism”?

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Smash authoritarian rule, equalize political rights, unionize, land reform

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1946-47 peace constitution

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Downgrade emperor, fundamental human rights, article 9 to renounce war

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Zaibatsu

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Large firms the U.S. Originally wanted to break up in Japan

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LDP

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Liberal party + Democratic Party merge in Japan 1955

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JSP

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Japan socialist party; had first plurality in 1947 election

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US reverse course in Japan

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Worry of communist expansion, shift in american policy: scaled back on dissolving zaibatsu, weaken labor movement, national police force, red purge

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When does Japan surrender?

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August 15 1945

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12
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Economic recovery in Japan

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1949 dodge line: balance budget, abolish state subsidies to business
1950 Korean War: american military orders surged

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When did american occupation end?

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1952

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14
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Remaining problems after american occupation of Japan

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Okinawa, ROC/PRC not present, Soviet Union walked out

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15
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Japanese diet

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House of reps (more powerful) and house of councillors

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16
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House of reps before electoral reform

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4 year term, can be dissolved; single non transferable vote (multiple seats)

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17
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What eroded Japan’s 1955 system?

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Corruption scandals, economic bubble, welfare to aging society, momentum to electoral reform

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Political issues in 1950s and 1960s

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Constitution lost momentum, relations with US, labor movement, peace movement, US-Japan treaty

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Problems with US-Japan security treaty

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Japan is a military target, one sided obligation of Japan

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Japan shifting focus 1960s-1970s

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Constitutional revision & confrontation w/ unions, income doubling plan, LDP alliance w/ farmers, workers, Japan productivity center

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21
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LDP income doubling plan 1960

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State guidance of market economy, economic miracle

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Citizen movements of Japan 1960s

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Anti-Vietnam war, student movements (–> corporate blacklisting), environmental activism, better welfare; LDP response: join in

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Japan oil crisis

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Economic growth halts 1973, GNP decline, prices increase 25%, panic buys, Japan–> less reliant on oil

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Japan’s relations w/ US 1960s-1970s

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Cornerstone of US asian policy, interdependence, Okinawa back to Japan, 1971 Nixon shocks, trade disputes

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Japan-US trade disputes

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Companies began to compete, compromise: Japan companies will produce in US; 1988 super 301 clause, 1985 plaza accord & bubble economy

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26
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1988 super 301 clause

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Asking Japan to constrain some exports to US & open domestic market to US products

27
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1985 plaza accord & bubble economy

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Appreciate yen by 100%, make products more expensive and less competitive on international market

28
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PRC features of authority structure

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Dual rule of party & state, party has leading role
Standing office for delegation of authority
Hierarchical structure of authority: vertical lines, horizontal blocks

29
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Organizational principles of PRC

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Democratic centralism, collective leadership, mass line

30
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Advantages & problems of PRC authority structure

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Accountability, bureaucratic interpretation & power drift, deviation discovery & control

31
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Mao & authority structure

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Above the system

32
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Authority structure

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Party makes policy, state administers it

33
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PLA & authority structure

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Beyond the gov, loyal to party

34
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Goals of PRC authority structure

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Centralism to give leaders leverage, promote/manage rapid industrialization, obtain resources from rural sector, guided social change

35
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Beijing politburo

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5-6 member standing committee; central committee= reps from all levels; plenum= full meeting

36
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Within PRC central committees

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Departments with power; top: state council w/ commissions for interminesterial problems & ministries w/ single focus

37
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Communist party membership

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Rural membership

38
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Communist party strategies

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Survived hardship-> strategy, adaptability, spiritual strength; campaigns-> political mobilization, organizational strengths; linkage with masses

39
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Goals for CCP continuing revolution

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Mobilize mass support for national construction & transform China to communist society

40
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Pre-requisites for continuing revolution

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a) charismatic leadership: Mao
b) mass mobilization: mass line & class struggle
c) structure of authority: party state & military

41
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Mao’s status in CCP

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Great leader, great teacher, great supreme commander, great helmsman

42
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CCP 1949-1956 4 substantiate r priorities

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1) cement terms of relationship w/ USSR
2) establish governing apparatus ruling urban & rural China
3) restore urban economy
4) consolidate control over countryside & land reform

43
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Source of Mao Zedong thought

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Marx-Leninism + chinese history

44
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Mao Zedong thought features

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Prominence of ideology: right thinking-> right conduct
Voluntarism: motivation to overcome material obstacles
Contradictions: solve through struggle
Class struggle: not capitalist or feudal, social relations by personal ties
Mass line & anti intellectualism
Self reliance

45
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Major campaigns in new democracy period

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Recovery from war & land reform
Suppression of counter-revolutionaries
3-anti & 5-anti
Collectivization
First 5 Year plan
46
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CCP land reform

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Remove from landlord, give to peasants; violent; gave CCP access to rural areas, restored agriculture

47
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CCP suppression of counter revolutionaries

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Civil servants of GMD, urban gangs, foreigners

48
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3 Anti & 5 Anti

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3 anti: corruption, waste, bureaucracy

5 anti: bribery, theft of state property, tax evasion, cheating on gov contracts, stealing state economic information

49
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Thought reform of intellectuals

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Criticize teachers, soviet style education

50
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Agriculture cooperivitization

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Peasant mutual aid teams, larger farms

51
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Hundred flowers campaign

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Allow opinions, criticism, then called off and anti-rightist campaign

52
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Anti-rightist campaign

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Persecute intellectuals, officials, artists, dissidents, those who like communism

53
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4 tensions of CCP

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Role of Mao: outside the law, system didn’t need him
Soviet problem: moral contrasted CCP values
Losing $ on soviet loans
Intellectual criticism: crackdown, purged helpful people

54
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Great Leap Forward 1958-1961

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Mass mobilization of peasants for development without increased investment; “surpass US & UK”, especially with steel production; rural communes: gov admin & econ production

55
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Consequences of Great Leap Forward

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Economic disaster, great famine, Mao criticized

56
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Taiwan ethnic groups

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Majority han

57
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Taiwan official language

58
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Treaty of shimonoseiki

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1895; following 1st sino-japanese war, ceding Taiwan to Japan

59
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Roc/Taiwanese clashing

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ROC thinks Taiwanese corrupted by japanese, Taiwanese enjoyed progress as japanese colony

60
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Chen yi

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Governor General

61
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Feb 28 incident

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Officials beat up woman selling cigs, shoot bystander, riots & 32 demands for more autonomy

62
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GMD response to feb 28 incident

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Tighter control, replace Chen yi

63
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Change in Taiwan agenda

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Wealth from mainland to Taiwan
Declared martial law 1949
Tutelage period toward democracy: constitution, 5-Yuan, 3 principles
Reconstructing party: grow membership, expand bases
Freeze Taiwanese out of national office

64
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Taiwan economic recovery

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Reduced barriers of education & entrepreneurship, import substitution-> export-led development, land reform: rent reduction, sale of public land, land to tenant farmers, us & Japan support

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