HISB58H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Marriage Law, Korean War, Indep
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Nationalist advantages: economic industrial centres occupied and american aid. Counter attacks on communists: took over coastal areas to prevent them from escaping to south china. *civil war progression: northeastern china capital across yangzi river capital of nationalist govn"t shanghai nationalist retreat to taiwan. *oct. 1, 1949, founding of the people"s republic of china (started reconstruction period) Inability of nat. govn"t to manage its economy efficiently (inflation) Chiang put a lot of relatives in his regime; top-ranking officials did not have good morale + not a lot of trust by people. Log. , fin. , mil. , support were essential for the nat. regime but they did provide effective. strat; american advisers did not get chiang to reform his govn"t. Soviet advisers played more effective role in comm. gathering support from peasants. *redist. of land among peasants (the revolutionary land reform) Comm. doing better job at strat. in battlefield (more brilliant mil. leaders)even though outnumbered.
