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Why Did Communists Win the Chinese Revolution
Nationalists
Backed by the United States
Chiang and the Nationalists, were defeated and forced to evacuate the Chinese mainland for the island of Taiwan.
led by Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinag's Kuomintang government
It was filled with corruption
He had little success in rallying Chinese nationalism
He decided to go to war against the Communists in 1946
Lead to
postponing the economic reconstruction
diverting tax revenues
Heavy taxes
Huge government debt
unemployment
inflation
food shortage
economic discontent
caused labor strikes
they demanded an end to the civil war and a communist government
Chiang himself held dictatorial powers
They only cared for city business interest and rural landlords, not the peasants
From 1911 to 1945, China experienced a revolution, a struggle against warlords, between the Nationalists and the Communists, and invasion by the Japanese.
The Aftermath
Chiang established a new Kuomintang government on Taiwan, but claimed he was still
the president of all China.
Millions died as a result of Mao’s policies
China began to adopt free-market reforms that introduced elements of capitalism
into its economy.
People’s Republic of China today has greatly improved
the standard of living
Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, and Mao Zedong died the next year.
,Mao declared the Cultural
Revolution
Thousands of historic Chinese sites and books were destroyed.
As the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao possessed absolute power.
Communists
supported by the Soviet Union
Communist propaganda took full advantage of all the Nationalist failings.
Mao’s supporters were called as cadres
Peasants and laborers, who owned little or no land, met to force wealthy landlords to confess their bad treatment of the poor in the "struggle meetings"
The cadres then cancelled all debts owed to the landlords and distributed their land and other property to the poor peasants and laborers.
Land reform built Mao’s peasant revolution to transform China into a Communist society
“the mother of all other work.”
Led by Mao Zedong
The government often punished peasants for participating in Mao’s land-distribution programs.
The battle for China,” he said, “is a battle for the hearts and minds of the peasants.”
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Mao
He destroyed traditional landbord structure in the villages and replaced it with new peasant leadership under the control of the Chinese Communist Party
Land reform built Mao’s peasant revolution to transform China into a Communist society. As he kept reminding his cadres, land reform was “the mother of all other work.”
transformed small guerilla bands into a modern conventional army capable of moving quickly to take advantage of the much larger but uncoordinated Nationalist armies.