HIST 80b Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chiang Kai-Shek, Totalitarianism, Hundred Flowers Campaign
9 May 2017
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Jiang jieshi attacked the communists in 1946, thereby ending the united states negotiated alliance. The kuomintang lost control of the north to the communists, and their stronghold over urban areas fell due to public outrage of kuomintang corruption and authoritarian policy. 1948, after growing issues with inflation, the kuomintang promised to fix their monetary policy. Ultimately, they did not fix their policy resulting in both hyperinflation and greater support for the communists. They took control of nanjing and shanghai (1949) with relatively little public resistance. Taipei becomes the capital of nationalist china led by jiang jieshi. In 1950, mao and stalin sign a treaty of alliance. Mao becomes leader of the leftist faction of the communist party. Maoist (leftist) faction held that communism could prosper without the existence of capitalism (in marxist stage theory, communism rises from the ashes of capitalism). The opposing faction hell that marx was right, and therefore china needed to modernize first.
