Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did the communists
succeed in 1949?
- Warfare
techniques
- guerilla warfare
- Practised in Yan'an
- Used "liberated areas"
- PLA well disciplined
- Code of conduct
- Took in soldiers from NRA
- And had spies in
NRA
- CCP able to use traditional warfare when
they had control of most of China
- Chiang's failures
- Sending 200,00 troops into Machuria
without supply lines
- Xi'an incident- didn't listen to troops
- Ignored US advice
- Japanese Invasion 1937
- Gave an oppourtunity for 2nd United Front
- Xi'an incident embarrassed Chiang and made CCP seem
more interested in China's success than their own
- Chiang wanted to fight CCP more than
Japanese
- GMD couldn't attack CCP
- Rape of Nanjing- Chiang's government ineffective
- Oppourtunity for revolution-
revolutions rooted in crisis
- People wanted stability- not matter what
government
- Peasants
- Mao broke with Moscow over issue
- Allowed him to use Peasants instead of Proletariat as more
peasants in China
- Developed his own version of Marxism-Leninism
- Chiang+ Japanese ignored importance of peasants
- So they were loyal to Mao and CCP
- Land reform, education, hospitals etc
- Yan'an soviet was
experiment
- Yan'an
- Mao's research
- Developed Mao Zedong thought +
cult of personality
- Tested Soviets
- Land reform, built schools etc
- Support from peasants