POST COLD WAR WORLD
RISE OF CHINA
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Question
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United States refused to support the Nationalists
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Communists had the support of the peasants
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Communists had more technologically advanced weapons
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Nationalists had been defeated by Japan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the Communists did not hold any major cities after World War II, they had strong grassroots support, superior military organization and morale, and large stocks of weapons seized from Japanese supplies in Manchuria.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the peasants’ association and then the Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants’ Associations served mainly to aid the new communist government with the land reform, and then the introduction of People’s communes as a provisional organ of power.
Detailed explanation-3: -Who supported the Communist party during the civil war, and why did they support it? Peasants attracted by promises of land and middle-class Chinese alienated by the repressive policies of the Nationalist government.
Detailed explanation-4: -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).