THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The communists had secured victory over the nationalists after China defeated Japan
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A strong nationalist movement was present
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A strong nationalist movement was present in Korea before the War but was violently crushed by the Japanese. When the Japanese were forced to withdraw from the country at the end of World War II, Korea came on to the agenda at the Yalta Conference between the Allied powers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cyclical famines and an oppressive landlord system kept the large mass of rural peasantry poor and politically disenfranchised. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was formed in 1921 by young urban intellectuals inspired by European socialist ideas and the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Background. The 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria began a chain of events that led to the eventual communist overthrow of China in 1949. For years, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai Shek had worked to suppress rebellions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Chinese Revolution of 1949. On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Communists gained control of mainland China and established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.