COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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Japan conquered China.
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China signed a trade agreement with the United States.
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China became a communist nation.
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The Soviet Union lost China as a political ally.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 1 October 1949, Mao formally proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The Communist victory had a major impact on the global balance of power: China became the largest socialist state by population, and, after the 1956 Sino-Soviet split, a third force in the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Civil War culminated in the victory of Mao’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the loss of the Nationalist Party, uniting China for the first time in the 20th century. This had quite a few effects on China as a country and its population, expressed as socio-economic, political and ideological.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war between the CPC and the KMT started again in 1946 after Japan’s defeat in World War II. The CPC took control of most of China, and the KMT had only islands left. About two million Chinese fled to Taiwan in late 1949.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.