The reunification campaigns

Question 1

Seizure of costal regions

Answer 1

The seziure of costal regions of China were called reunification campiagns to legitimise and justify them. theese regions posed a threat for the CCP both in terms of ideology, religion, and foreign infuence.

Question 2

Tibet

Answer 2

Who lived there?
* Tibetans
* Buddhists

Reason CCP needed control
* the threat of Buddhism
* threat of key religous figures (Dalia Lama)

Methos they used
* Invasion, captured the capital (Lhasa)
* set up new Tibetan gov (actually controlled by CCP)
* Dalia Lama had to sign a 17 point agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet about merging into PRC

Success
Yes

Question 3

Xinjiang

Answer 3

Who lived there?
* Mongols (Turkic and Iranian
* Uighur’s

Reason CCP needed control
* CCP feared a growth of seperatistsentiment or Russian influence

Methos they used
* a combination of military force and negotiation
* the PLA secured territory and cleared ressistance

Success
Yes

Question 4

Guangdong

Answer 4

Who lived there?
* pro nationalists
* Spies and saboteurs

Reason CCP needed control
* the capital (Canton) was a valuable trading point

Methos they used
* 28,000 peopleexecuted in the supress counter revolutionaries campaign

Success
Yes

Question 5

Taiwan

Answer 5

Who lived there?
* Nationalists

Reason CCP needed control
* avoid a GMD invasion
* destroy GMD ideology
* invade Taiwan

Methos they used
* Sent spies and sabotours to attack the new regime
* wanted to attack but the intervention in the Korean war prevented it

Success
No