figures in chinese conflict

Question 1

jiang jeshi

Answer 1

leader of GMD

Question 2

mao zedong

Answer 2

leader of CCP

Question 3

soong me-lin

Answer 3

jiang’s second wife daughter of rich Shanghi bussines man eductated in the US

Question 4

big ears du (Du Yuesheng)

Answer 4

(Du Yuesheng) appointed by Jiang to be president of the Opium Suppression Bureau
he was the leader of the Green Gang who was in control of drug trade, prostitution, gambolling in Shanghai
hired by the GMD to attack Communists and trade Unionists

Question 5

confucius

Answer 5

philospher who came up with confucian values: emphasised the importance of: order, loyalty, respect for parents and ancestors, self- discipline, and self-improvement

Question 6

Zhou Enlai

Answer 6

mao’s important ally
well educated and trained
served as prime minister of People’s Republic of China 1949-1947
studied in: China, Japan and France
when in France joined a branch of the CCP
worked in political department of Whampoa Academy
became Political Commissar of Red Army after Communists escaped to Jiangxi
1935, in Yan’an became vice-chairman of the CCP

Question 7

Zhang Guotao

Answer 7

mao’s rivals
1938 defected to GMD

Question 8

Kang Shang

Answer 8

mao’s ally
Kang Shang was Mao’s secret police chief in Yan’an, trained by Soviet Secret Police in Moscow, when he supported the Twenty-Eight Bolsheviks, returned a supporter of Mao
used his knowledge of torture to help the Yan’an Rectification Campaign

Question 9

Zhang Xueliang

Answer 9

known as the Young Marshall
military commander in Shaanxi who ordered soliders to kidnap Jiang

Question 10

Peng Dehuai and Zhu De

Answer 10

members of the CCP who led the the Hundred Regiment Offensive