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The effects of the Chinese Civil War - Coggle Diagram
The effects of the Chinese Civil War
social imapct
impact on women
Some women served in the Red Army and Communist militias.
The women in the Red Army also made clothes, nursed wounded soldiers and catered.
The Communists got rid of some of the old traditions like arranged marriages and for both parties in a marriage to have a right to divorce.
Women in the CCP were encouraged to participate in committies and even serve as officials.
the impact to a woman depended on her social status, whether she resided in a rural or urban area and within Communist- or Nationalist-controlled territory
traditionally women were regarded as inferior to men, had few legal rights, foot binding, arranged marriages, confined to domestic duties
minority of women had some improvements to their legal status and educational and political possibilities
in nationalist zones legal status of women improved, arranged marriages without consent prohibited, women able to initiate divorce, equal inheritance rights, equal pay
in practice these legal changes mostly had no real effect on womens lives especially in rural communities
women had more educational opportunities but they mostly went on to pursue traditional careers(nursing and civil service)
casualties
estimated deaths range from 4-6 million (1945-9)
nationalists lost over 1.5 million men
CCP lost a quarter of a million men
3 million combat casualties and 18 million civilian deaths(second Sino-Japanese war)
changes to social structure
landlords removed from their position of power and persecuted by local peasantry
16 million people were persecuted to some degree
territory changes affecting about 160 million people
at least one million landlords killed
peasants owned land for the first time
political impact
international politics
The US feared that the CCP's victory would lead to the spreading of communism and were determined to resist the spreading
to resist the spreading of communism the US got involved in the Korean war and the Vietnam war
Taiwan
The Chinese nationalist that were based in Taiwan continued to maintain that they were legitimate government of China which led to military conlficts in the Taiwanese Straints in the 1950s
communist policies
The CCP won the war and they abolished all other political parties and organizations
Tibet
when the Communists arrived in Tibet they treated the people there brutally. The Tibetan practice form of Buddhism, lama, was banned and the teaching of the Tibetan language and history was also banned.
military campaign to assimilate Tibet to China
economic impact
Consequences after the war
After years of conflict there was a lot of destruction and
The war also had an impact on the currency, inflation was rising rapidly.
The communists after their victory, focused on problems such as inflation, the use of the black market and corruption.
idustrial production was weakend by the damage caused by the war
implementation of the communist economic principles was delayed untill a period of political consolidation
Years of civil conflict destroyed agricultural areas