THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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ended in China becoming Communist
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the Communists were supported by peasants and women
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started after WWII
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led to an attempt to modernize China
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
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: -The combination of increasing imperialist demands (from both Japan and the West), frustration with the foreign Manchu Government embodied by the Qing court, and the desire to see a unified China less parochial in outlook fed a growing nationalism that spurred on revolutionary ideas.