Warring States Period

Examples of Warring States Period in the following topics:

• The Warring States Period

  • The Warring States period saw technological and philosophical development, and the emergence of the Qin Dynasty.
  • The second part of the Eastern Zhou period is known as the Warring States period; during this time these few remaining states battled each other for total power.
  • The Rise of the Qin State and Resolution of the Warring States Period
  • Though the military rivalries and alliances in the Warring States period were complex and constantly in flux, over time the Qin state, under the leadership of King Zheng, emerged as the most powerful.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the main characteristics of the Warring States period

• The Eastern Zhou Period

  • In the Warring States period, strong states fought each other in large-scale war.
  • By the end of 5th century BCE, the feudal system was consolidated into seven prominent and powerful states—Han, Wei, Zhao, Yue, Chu, Qi, and Qin—and China entered the Warring States period, when each state vied for complete control.
  • The partition of the Jin state created seven major warring states.
  • After a series of wars among these powerful states, King Zhao of Qin defeated King Nan of Zhou and conquered West Zhou in 256 BCE; his grandson, King Zhuangxiang of Qin, conquered East Zhou, bringing the Zhou Dynasty to an end.
  • This map shows the Warring States late in the period.

• Japanese Art in the Showa Period

  • During the Shōwa period, Japan shifted toward totalitarianism until its defeat in World War II, when it led an economic and cultural recovery.
  • This was part of an overall global period of social upheavals and conflicts such as the Great Depression and the Second World War.
  • In these ways, the pre-1945 and post-war periods regard completely different states: the pre-1945 Shōwa period (1926–1945) concerns the Empire of Japan, while the post-1945 Shōwa period (1945–1989) was a part of the State of Japan.
  • Japanese painting in the pre-war Shōwa period was largely dominated by Yasui Sōtarō (1888-1955) and Umehara Ryūzaburō (1888-1986).
  • Create a timeline describing the upheaval, occupation, democratic reforms, and economic boom of the pre- and post-war Shōwa period.

• Superpower Rivalry

  • The United States and Soviet Union eventually emerged as the two major superpowers after World War II.
  • By 1947, the United States took the lead in containing Soviet expansion in the Cold War.
  • The idea that the Cold War period revolved around only two blocs, or even only two nations, has been challenged by some scholars in the post-Cold War era, who have noted that the bipolar world only exists if one ignores all of the various movements and conflicts that occurred without influence from either of the two superpowers.
  • Green states are the non-aligned states.
  • Evaluate the theory of a bipolar post-war world dominated by two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union

• War

  • War is an organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
  • War is an organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality.
  • War studies by military theorists have sought to identify the philosophy of war and to reduce it to a military science.
  • Conventional war is declared between existing states in which nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons are not used, or they only see limited deployment in support of conventional military goals and maneuvers.
  • Some hostilities, such as insurgency or civil war, may persist for long periods of time with a low level of military activity.

• Foreign Policy After the Cold War

  • The post-Cold War era saw optimism, and the balance of power shifted solely to the United States.
  • After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the post–Cold War world was widely considered as unipolar, with the United States the sole remaining superpower.
  • The Cold War also marked the apex of peacetime military-industrial complexes, especially in the United States, and large-scale military funding of science.
  • Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began.
  • Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began.

• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish-American War was a three-month-long conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The result of the war was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the United States.
  • Since the Spanish-American War, the United States has had a significant hand in various conflicts around the world, and has entered many treaties and agreements.
  • The Panic of 1893 was over by this point, and the United States entered a long and prosperous period of economic and population growth and technological innovation that lasted through the 1920s.

• Union Finances

  • The Union emerged from the Civil War with a healthy economy by funding the war with new taxes, printing money, and issuing government bonds.
  • Following the secession of the Southern states, Republicans in Washington sought to finance the war while simultaneously implementing an elaborate program of economic modernization.
  • The Morrill Tariff and the Homestead Act were among the far-reaching changes enacted by Congress in this period to fulfill the Republican vision of an industrial nation.
  • The United States required more than three billion dollars to pay for the immense armies and fleets raised to fight the Civil War and more than $400 million in 1862 alone.
  • The Greenback bill issued by the United States during the Civil War

• Madison's American Indian Policy

  • James Madison's presidency saw the continuation of the American Indian Wars as the United States expanded into and invaded indigenous territory.
  • In his first Inaugural Address upon assuming office on March 4, 1809, James Madison stated that the federal government's duty was to convert the American Indians by the, "participation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible in a civilized state."
  • East of the Mississippi River in the Indiana Territory, an intertribal confederacy led by Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, fought a number of engagements in the Northwest during the period of 1811 to 1812.
  • However, Tecumseh's War continued into the War of 1812 and is frequently considered a part of that larger struggle.
  • The Creek War, also known as the "Red Stick War" and the "Creek Civil War," was a regional war among opposing Creek factions, European empires, and the United States, taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast.

• Financing the War

  • By the summer of 1940, the victories of Nazi Germany against Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France brought urgency to possible United States involvement in World War II.
  • The intent was to unite the attractiveness of the baby bonds that had been implemented in the interwar period with the patriotic element of the Liberty Bonds from the first World War.
  • The name of the bonds was eventually changed to war bonds after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which resulted in the United States entering the war.
  • The United States government marketed series E U.S.
  • Explain how "defense bonds" worked to finance the war in the United States.