USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As UNC troops crossed the 38th parallel, Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong received a plea for direct military aid from Kim Il-sung. The chairman was willing to intervene, but he needed assurances of Soviet air power.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mao Zedong, communist leader of China, got involved in the Korean War because he felt China was threatened by Western nations and that if the communist North Koreans lost, and the Korean peninsula became westernized, China would no longer have an ally on its borders.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the failed uprisings, Mao Zedong took over command of the 1, 000 survivors and established a revolutionary base area in the Jinggang Mountains. The two armies joined forces in the following year.

Detailed explanation-5: -Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People’s Republic of China.