The Chinese Civil War Flashcards
When was the cease-fire brought about almost immediately after the Second Sino-Japanese War? When were the GMD and CCP back at war?
January 1946
May 1946
When did Chiang take Yan’an?
March 1947
What was Mao’s main tactic in warfare against the GMD? What is an example of propaganda showing this?
Guerilla warfare- Mao let the Nationalists take land but killed off their troops so eventually the GMD became overstretched
Song- “keep men, lose land, land can be taken again; keep land, lose men, land and men both lost”
When were the communist forces officially renamed the People’s Liberation Army?
May 1946
Why did the peasants join the CCP during the civil war?
Land redistribution- the Land Law took away landlord rights empowering the peasants
What were the Nationalists dejected about? (3 pt)
- Don’t care to fight
- Don’t care about the people
- Don’t care about myself
Why did the GMD lose the support of the middle class?
They could not control the crippling inflation
When did Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng launch the offenses that crippled the GMD?
April-May 1947
How did Mao get access to arms?
GMD soldiers often abandoned them
What is evidence of the GMD being unable to defend their occupied towns?
327,000 prisoners were taken in one battle- GMD surrendered en masse
When the PLA march on Beiping?
January 1949
When did Chiang resign as President?
January 1949
When did the PLA take Nanjing?
April 1949
When was the People’s Republic of China proclaimed?
October 1949
