COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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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: -On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Support for the CCP continued to grow throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War, and after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the CCP emerged triumphant in the communist revolution against the KMT government. After the retreat of the KMT to Taiwan, the CCP established the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.