The Chinese Civil War
This reppresents the Communists and the Nationalists fighting in their civil war.
- China's war with Japan ended in 1945, and China still had many troops left
- China had lost over 2 million military men
- China was torn to pieces, but hoped to regain peace and stability
- The Communists were appealing to poor peasants, which was the majority of China
- Chiang Kai-shek's government was seen as the landlord's government
- People in Chiang's China were suffering from high prices caused by inflation
- Communist forces pushed Chiang's forces, or the Nationalists, out of Manchuria
- The Communists got their weapons from the Japanese and the U.S., both indirectly
- By 1949, Chiang's currency had inflated to 32,000 times
- The U.S. majorly supported the Nationalists and had given them over 2 billion dollars in military aid
- In 1949, the Communist forces swept across the river
- The Nationalists began going to Taiwan, and executed all who they thought were their enemy
- In Beijing, Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then traveled to Moscow
- In 1950, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union signed a Treaty of Freindship, and promised to help in the reconstruction of China
- The Communists gained control under the power of Mao Zedong