WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The massive military retreat of Communist forces lasted a year and covered what Mao estimated as 12, 500 km (25, 000 Li); it became known as the Long March. This military retreat was undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, to evade the pursuit or attack of the Kuomintang army.

Detailed explanation-2: -The KMT traces its ideological and organizational roots to the work of Sun Yat-sen, a proponent of Chinese nationalism and democracy who founded the Revive China Society at the capital of the Republic of Hawaii, Honolulu, on 24 November 1894.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sun Yat-sen led the amalgam of groups that together formed the Revolutionary Alliance or Tongmenghui. The Revolutionary Alliance advocated replacing Qing rule with a republican government; Sun himself was a nationalist with some socialist tendencies.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1927 the civil war in the Republic of China began when the Kuomintang (KMT) became rivals with the Communist Party of China (CPC) and both parties led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong were fighting against each other.