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CHINESE CIVIL WAR - Coggle Diagram
CHINESE CIVIL WAR
BACKGROUND
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Stalin initially advised Mao to form coalition with nationalists - fear of US, nuclear?
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US ACTIONS
supplied KMT, secretly from 1949 - Acheson 'China White Papers'
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CCP ACTIONS
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Sino-Soviet Pact Feb 14 1950 - mutual defence against 'Japan or ally', not conclude treaty with nations that would be hostile to USSR or PRC
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CONCLUSIONS
US 'loss' of China provoked a shift in Cold War focus to Asia, along with an increased paranoia of Communist takeover in US
The Sino-Soviet Treaty shifted the balance of the Cold War power to the USSR; US strategy, more covert until now, were shown to be ineffective in restricting the growth of Communism
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