COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF 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: -On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.