WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the visit by U.S. president Richard Nixon
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economic reforms that allowed Western ideas into China
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the breakup of the Soviet Union
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the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany
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Detailed explanation-1: -Starting in 1970, the economy entered into a period of stagnation, and after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party leadership decided to abandon Maoism and turn to market-oriented reforms to salvage the stagnant economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -After Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms earning him the reputation as the “Architect of Modern China".
Detailed explanation-3: -The introduction of the market system, first in the rural area, and then in the urban area, must be regarded as the primary reason for the success of the economic reform.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the most powerful figure in the People’s Republic of China from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, Deng Xiaoping spearheaded changes in China that led to a rapidly growing economy, rising standards of living, and growing ties to the world economy, and also considerably expanded personal and cultural freedoms.