pre civil war china 36-46 Flashcards
(15 cards)
as the GMD did not have popular support base, where did support come from
landowners, wealthy peasants
where were the CCP based by 1936
Yan’an
important parts of Mao Zedong Thought
-peasants as the revolutionary class
-mass mobilisation
-class struggle
-national self-reliance
-learning from the people
-continuing revolution
when and what was the Xi’an Incident
1936, Young Marshall forces Chiang-Kai Shek to accept a United Front with the Communist against the Japanese
conditions of the Second United Front
-GMD end political suppression of the CCP
-CCP military forces under NRA control
how many CCP Soldiers were lost in the SJW versus GMD
22,000 CCP vs a few thousand GMD
when was Pearl Harbour, what did it bring to SJW
1941, British and American support for the Chinese fighting the Japanese
when dis CKS abandon the Second United Front
1941, attacked the New Fourth Army communists
when CKS destroyed the Yellow River in 1938, how much farmland was destroyed
1.4 million acres
what did the USA give the USSR if they helped fight the Japanese
rights to Manchuria
what happened at the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937
Japanese think the Chinese killed a soldier, and then send more troops to Beijing in response
impacts of the Sino-Japanese War on the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek
+china militarized
+international support
-mistrust of generals lead to army being unorganised (Zongren)
-divide of rural and urban populations
-warlord emergence
-showed discare for the people (didnt protect Nanjing 1938)
-paranoid leaderhsip (held 12 posiitons at once)
impacts of the Sino-Japanese War on the CCP
+Japan attacked them less than the GMD
+as ignored could reestablish themselves
+propaganda dying for the cause
+support from the USSR
+development of military strategy (guerilla warfare) - showed by US being impressed by them on the Dixie Mission
how did Mao secure CCP leadership by 1945
-long march
-end of left closed-doorism (Zunyi Conference 1935)
-consistent ideology
