CGS SS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: First United Front, Sun Yat-Sen, Marshall Mission
16 Nov 2017
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Chiang kaishek leader of nationalist party ( successor of sun yatsen) led northern. Expedition to reunite north and south china: referred to communist party as cancer in china deal with them first and then foreigners. 1932, northeast china was all japanese: new nazis advisors tried out new tactic blitzkrieg all out assault on civilians on communists in communist base, major events, first united front, white terror (1927) Mountain communists/ chinese soviet republic (1930-1934: long march (1935, mao and his supporters ran out and escaped for their lives from aerial attacks and ended up in northeast china. Iconic event in chinese history: ya"nan way (1935-1947, communists lived in caves, mao utilizing strategies (gain mass support ) but tailored to the conditions of. North china: during wwii to benefit the communist parties, started giving away lands as soon as japanese started moving south, used guerrilla fighting against japanese themselves, communists got peasant support to kill japanese and camouflaged as farmers.
