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China’s Civil War
• China’s Civil War (1928-1949)• Mao pushed for a tactic of taking the revolution to
the countryside • Peasants would join the Red Army and be trained in
guerrilla warfare• Nationalists would attack Communists but failed to
ever drive the Communists out
The Long March
• Jiang gathers 700,000 men and surrounded the Communist’s mountain stronghold
• Communist forces (100,000 men) began the Long March (6,000 mile march from southern China to northern China)
• Kept one step ahead of Jiang• Thousands would die from hunger, cold & exposure• “If we can survive all this, we can survive
everything”
Luding Bridge
Civil War Suspended
• By 1931, Japan began to watch the problems with China
• Japan invaded Manchuria to control an industrial part of northeast China
• 1937, Japan launches an all-out invasion of China (destroyed farms and killed thousands)
• By 1938, Japan had control of much of China• People of China united to fight the Japanese
Question
• If the Long March had failed, do you think the Nationalist party would have been successful in uniting the Chinese? Why or why not?