HIST 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Eighth Route Army, Mao Zedong, Four Olds
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Lecture 20: war and revolution; china after 1949 [textbook = chapters 22,25,27, and 39] [note: * = most important for the next exam] A. k. a the war of resistance against japan lasted from 1937-1945. Expectation: a 3-month campaign using 3 divisions at a cost of 100 million yen which would have the chinese asking for peace. Reality: within 6 months, they had sent 20 divisions at a cost of 2. 5 billion yen. Ill trained conscript army (up to died before seeing battle) Chiang kaishek saved his best troops and equipment for later use against the communists. The gmd lost all the major eastern cities and their revenues, and nearly all the income from taxes on foreign trade. Chiang kaishek was not interested in organizing peasant resistance against the japanese, fearing that it might be turned against him. Communists have a strong sense of mission organized the population to supply, food, recruits, and sanctuaries for guerilla troops.
