One mans revolution

Question 1

Situation in China pre-1949
What gov was in power?
What was the political situation like?

Answer 1

• politically chaotic
• Kuomintang (natoinalist gov) 1912

Question 2

Maos background
How did he help at his farm?
What status was he born?
What jobs did he do?

Answer 2

• Peasant farmboy
• Handled the farm’s accounting
• Teacher, Librarian

Question 3

First civil war
what did CCP leaders decide in 1912?
Where did Mao go and why?
What happened in Shanghai in 1927?

Answer 3

• 1912 Leaders of the ccp met and agreed to join forces whith the koumintang
• most of China dominated by warlords
• Mao goes to Kiangsi to organise a peasant army
• 1927 communist leaders killed in Shanghai by nationalists

Question 4

The great march
How many soldiers? How many miles? How long?
What was the journey like?
How many survived?

Answer 4

• 100,000 soldiers marched 6000 miles for a year
• attacked by nationalists on the way
• walked over multiple mountain ranges
• only 30,000 survived

Question 5

Sino-Japanese war
When did Japan invade?
Who fought together?
When did Japan surrender?
What did America attempt?

Answer 5

• 1937 Japan invades
• Communists + Nationalists fight together
• Japan surrenders 1945
• American attempted to create a communist + Kuomintang coalition gov.

Question 6

2nd Civil war
Who had the advantage at first?
Who did Mao choose to be his commander?
Where did nationalists flee?

Answer 6

• at first koumintang had numbers and better weapons but had ill trained under paid soldiers.
• By 1948 GMD was loosing
• Mao chose Lin Piao as commander nationalists fled to Taiwan

Question 7

CCP rise to power
When did mao declare?

Answer 7

• 1st October 1949 Mao proclaimed new peoples of republic of China in Peking