THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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the Communists under Mao Zedong
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neither side (the U.S. stayed out of it)
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the Nationalists under Jiang Jieshi
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jiang was the Nationalist leader of China. He was fighting a civil war against communists led by Mao. The United States sent aid to Jiang because American leaders feared that his defeat would create a communist superpower.
Detailed explanation-2: -Though only nominally democratic, the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek continued to receive U.S. support both as its former war ally and as the sole option for preventing Communist control of China.
Detailed explanation-3: -Trying to balance competing concerns of winning the war and avoiding communist gains in China the US government simultaneously provided most of its support to Nationalist forces and attempted to negotiate a peace agreement between them and the CCP.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Xinjiang, the Chinese Muslim general Ma Hushan supported Chinese nationalism. He was chief of the 36th Division of the National Revolutionary Army. He spread anti-Soviet, and anti-Japanese propaganda, and instituted a colonial regime over the Uyghurs.