China

Question 1

Who fought against each other in the Chinese civil war?

Answer 1

People’s Nationalist Party v the chinese communist party

Question 2

What is the Chinese name for the People National Party?

Answer 2

Kuomintang (KMT)

Question 3

When was the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 3

1927 - 1949

Question 4

What triggered a full scale civil war in China?

Answer 4

Japan used to occupy China but they pulled out and it triggered full scale civil war

Question 5

Who was the leader of KMT?

Answer 5

Chiang Kai-shek aka Jiang Jieshi

Question 6

What were the aims of Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 6

He wanted to use American support to take full control of China,

Question 7

What did America want Chiang Kai Shek to do?

Answer 7

Enact reforms but he refused as he was corupt

Question 8

Who was the founder member nd chairman of the CCP?

Answer 8

Mao Zedong

Question 9

When was Mao Zedong involved in the CCP?

Answer 9

1921 till his death in 1976

Question 10

What was the attitude of the CCP towards Japan

Answer 10

They were communists who resisted Japan’s rule
In the North they established liberation areas, introduced popular reforms and seized weapons left by the Japanese

Question 11

What did the CCP army total?

Answer 11

1 million

Question 12

What was the name of the Chinese Communist Party army?

Answer 12

People’s Liberation Army

Question 13

What was Stalin’s involvement with China?

Answer 13

Instructed Mao to form a coalition government with Chiang
Advised Mao not to seize power so as not to upset the WEst
The USSR was an onlooker reluctant to get involved in China

Question 14

Who did the USA support?

Answer 14

After 1941 because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour US supported Chiang Kai-shek
They did not want to get involved but they did not want to see a communist take over of China either
They did not want to see a civil war that involved the USSR

Question 15

What did the USA advise Chiang?

Answer 15

To form a coalition
Sent George Marshall to arrange a truce in 1945, but it collapsed in 1946

Question 16

How did the Americans support Chiang?

Answer 16

Money, equipment and training
By 1947 they had spent 200 million dollars on the KMT army

Question 17

How many were in the KMT (national Rev Army of China) army?

Answer 17

3 million (1947)

Question 18

When did the US stop supporting the KMT Kuomintang party? (socialist)

Answer 18

By 1948 a communist victory seemed imminent and they stopped

Question 19

Why did the KMT not succeed?

Answer 19

Corruption
Desertion of army members

Question 20

What were the victories of the CCP?

Answer 20

Their army the PLA captured Bejing in 1949
April 1949 Nanjing fell
Chiang fled to Taiwan

Question 21

When did Mao declare the Peopl’es Republic of China?

Answer 21

October 1949 Chairman Mao declared it

Question 22

What was the US response to the creation of the People’s Republic of China?

Answer 22

They refused to recognise it

Question 23

What was the impact of the Chinese civil war on the US?

Answer 23

Shifted US focus to Asia
Led the US to support and aid Taiwan
Truman was seen as soft on communism
It prompted the National Security Council’s report (NSC- 68) in 1950 to reiterate the threat posed by the USSR

Question 24

What triggered McCarthyism?

Answer 24

The chinese civil war

Question 25

What was McCarthyism?

Answer 25

An anti communist crusade led by Senator McCarthyagainst government foreign policy advisers

Question 26

What did the US National security council report-68 advise>

Answer 26

Reconstrustion of Japan
Expansion of conventional and nuclear weapons
Due to the expense Truman decided not to pursue thisor Korean confrontation

Question 27

What treaty did China and the USSR sign?

Answer 27

A Sino-Soviet treaty 1950