China NA

Question 1

Mao’s Leadership

Answer 1

• 8 Rules of conduct, e.g. paying for soldier damages.
• Army strategy of guerilla warfare + withdrawal = good against Jiang.
• Offered land reform to Peasants (majority pop. 90%)

Question 2

Japanese Invasion

Answer 2

• Mao was able to stay out of the conflict + grow troops through desertion (70% in some of Jiang’s units)
• Cost Jiang a lot of troops + money = lacking resources to fight Mao.
• Damage Jiang’s rep. as a nationalist leader who could defend China.
• Japanese were far more combat prepared than Jiang, weakening him.

Question 3

Jiang’s incompetence

Answer 3

• He wasn’t hugely funded by US.
• American observers considered Jiang “a hopeless case”.
• Allowed hyperinflation to skyrocket - April 1949, 1 grain of rice = 2500 chinese dollars
• Soldiers had to be tied up overnight in order for them not to desert, low morale.