IA Section B
Introduction
The Communists won the Chinese Civil War due to the many weaknesses of the Chinese Nationalist
Party. The Chinese Nationalists had many weaknesses. The Chinese Nationalists had a corrupt government, had many food and monetary shortages, and were not as popular with the people as the Chinese Communists were. The Chinese Civil War was from 1927-1949. 1927-1934 was the first phase of the Civil War when the Nationalists beat the communists and forced the communists into a long march. From 1937- 1945 the Communists and Nationalists united under a front to fight the Japanese invaders. The second phase of the Chinese Civil War was from 1945-1949. During the second phase of the Chinese Civil War, the Communists
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The Communists appealed to the workers of China during the second phase of the
Civil War more that the Nationalists did because the Communists made many promises to improve the lives of the workers and the Communists supported labor unions. The
Chinese Nationalists were more right wing and focused more on strengthening the country itself than on helping the lower classes and workers . The Communists were very popular with the growing labor movement in
China which the Nationalists sought to gain control over. In 1927 in the beginning of the Civil War, there were 3 million organized workers in all of China’s major cities. The nationalist government banned all communist labor movements and dominated labor organizations during the 1930s. However, the relationship between the Nationalists and worker unions fragmented during the Japanese invasion from
1937-1945. When the Nationalists were fighting the Japanese they didn’t have as much communication with the labor unions. The Communists took advantage of this situation and secretly strengthened ties with its labor unions. The labor unions appealed to the Communist’s ideologies of worker domination and equality. The labor unions staged many strikes against the nationalists after the Japanese invasion
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Chang Hai Shek's regime depended primarily on the wealthy classes of urban business people and exploiting landlords so Chang
Hai Shek primarily represented and supported the interests of those propertied classes. Chang Hai Shek was viewed as deviating from the original three principles of the people of democracy, nationalism, and livelihood. Chang Hai Shek lost support as very little was being done to improve the peasants lives. Another major weakness of the nationalists was massive economic mismanagement of their part during the later period of the Chinese Civil War. During the Manchurian invasion starting in 1937 the
Chinese economy began to deteriorate as the Japanese invaded . After the Japanese invasion, there were huge repercussions on the Chinese economy. The Nationalists failed to transition to a stable peacetime economy after the war. The Nationalist government came short in curbing speculation, inflation, and shortages of goods. Inflation became widespread after the Japanese War. The huge inflation started during the Anti-Japanese War when the Nationalists government didn't have enough public revenue to
In China between the years 1925 to 1950 myriad changes were occurring. Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party joined forces against Japan. During the time 1925 to 1950 in China, relationships between the Communist Party and the peasants grew through the defense against a common enemy, mutual support, and the establishment of equality.
Between 1856 and 1860, a war broke out between the union and the confederate because the Confederates seceded from the union over the ban of slavery. After a hard fought war, the union won after 4 years. How did the North win? And how? The northerner won because of the advantages in technology, major battles, battle plans, the president Lincoln, and railroads.
First, the South couldn’t have won the civil war because state’s rights prevented unification of the South. The very issue that created the Confederacy helped to destroy it. In waging war, the South faced problems of politics and government that greatly complicated its problem of economic mobilization. No one would deny the troublesome effect of the conflict generated by differing ideas of how best to protect liberty and to organize southern society for the war effort. Southern people insisted upon retaining their democratic liberties in wartime, which proved fatal for the South. They had to struggle with a “confederacy formed by
The relationship between Chinese peasants and the Chinese communist party became more close knit during this time. Between circa 1925 and circe 1250 the Chinese communist party and the peasants had a relationship they both had a sense of nationalism, saw Japan as a common enemy and gained social rights.
By the end of the 19th Century, most Americans saw labor unions as comprised of radical communists and anarchists. The problem started with the idea that labor unions and collective bargaining was seen as un-American. With the American focus on individual freedoms, the idea that a group of people should get together to demand what they want was communistic. This fear can be directly shown in one of Thomas Nast’s political cartoons from 1878, which shows labor unions killing capitalism in order to appease communism (Source C). It also didn’t help that this group of people were workers, who controlled the means of industry in a communist state. The people who supported labor unions often were socialists or communists themselves as well. Eugene Debs, for example, was a well-known socialist and proponent of worker’s rights. His beliefs that the US should work within its political system in order to gradually give way to a socialist state didn’t sit well with Americans. Neither did Daniel DeLeon’s ideas, for that matter, who believed that workers should lead the way in a revolution to overthrow the
Between circa 1925 and circa 1950, the relations between the Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party became out of hand due to the peasant rebellions/uprising groups present, the tension between Japan and the communist party, and most notable the mass reform during this time period.
In the first place, as an overall background, Chinese civil war between Kuomintang (the party leaded by Chiang Kai-shek) and The Communist Party (the party leaded by Mao Tse-tung) caused the first
Between the years of 1927 and 1949 in China two warring sides, China’s Communist Party and China’s Nationalist Party, clashed. Although the two parties had previously worked together in the United Front against Japan when Japan tried to invade, their temporary alliance was dropped as soon as the invasion was over. Halting only for a brief period when Japan attempted to invade a second time in 1936 to form the Second United Front, the two parties resumed fighting after the invasion was over in 1945, and only stopped hostilities when the Communist party drove out the Nationalist party to Taiwan and other islands. This war brought China into a new era under a communist government, the People’s Republic of China. Massive reform and change would
The labor union movement over the years has shaped the way individuals work and live for both the nicest and unpleasant. Some would think the unions influence has created a power struggle between management and union leaders. In today’s time, some citizens insist the existence of unions are a must to aid in employee freedom, while others view the labor unions as just another problem in the line of progress. The purpose of labor unions was for employed workers to come together and collectively agree on fundamental workplace objectives. The rise of the union came about after the Civil War- responding to the industrial economy. Surprisingly at the least unions became popular within the 1930-50’s and began to slowly decrease,
In 1927, a war commenced between the Nationalist administration of China, headed by Christian official Chiang Kai-shek, and the Communist Chinese, headed by Mao Tse-tung. Thus, war was waged between the Nationalists, representatives of freedom; and the Communists, representatives of the soul-crushing oppression of Communism. Conversely, in America, the sides were interchanged, as liberal American reporters referred to Mao Tse-tung a “true man of the people” and an “agrarian reformer”; however, patriot of freedom, Chiang Kai-shek was prejudicially labeled as “power-hungry” and “corrupt”. Because assistance was not given from the United States to an ally in desperate need, the toxin of Communism invaded China and remains a parasite on a formerly great land.
Their Tactics. The Nationalist tactics played into the hands of the Communists who were able to make the most of the position they found themselves in at the end of the Second World War.
China has been in a state of revolution and reform since the Sino-Japanese war of 1895. As a result of Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905, China’s constitutional reform movement gathered momentum. This forced the Manchu government by public opinion to make gestures of preparation for a constitutional government, an act to which reformers in exile responded enthusiastically by establishing a Political Participation Society (Cheng-wen-she) (1, pg.84).
At the end of the Sino-Japanese War the Guomindang held significant advantages over the Communists, with its widely recognised legitimate government controlling China, giving it the power to tax and conscript. On the other hand, the Communists could not match the Guomindang's troops in terms of training and equipment and could be "outgunned and outmanoeuvred in all major regions of the country" (Westad, 2003: 8). Furthermore, the Communist party was hardly represented in the cities at all, which of course was the power base of the Guomindang. However, the Communists also had successes resulting from the war with Japan including increasing their area of control and practiced evolving their strategies of protracted guerrilla warfare against the Japanese which in turn generated public support. Despite this the party's main forces were still located in North-west China and they were not in such a powerful position that a civil war with the Guomindang would be a mere formality in securing control of the country.
And even the Japanese operation against the Communists had opposite effect, because Three All Campaign’s aimed at turning people against the Communists by burning down their villages and crops, murdering the peasants made the peasants hate the Japanese even more and help the Communists attack them. The Japan-China war was a great success of the Communists because, by 1945, they controlled eighteen ‘liberation areas’ in the countryside. Invariably it was the Reds to whom the Japanese submitted.
Towards the end of the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong was able to defeat the Nationalists Party (KMT) which was under Chiang Kai-Shriek. Several reasons have lied upon the triumph of the CCP. Mao and his party were capable of gaining support from the majority of the population through their restrained land policies; they were also able to take advantage of KMT weaknesses, in addition to their complete dedication during the years.