The Long March
Have you ever heard of the Long March? Don’t worry, not many people have since researchers do not know the full details. The Long March lasted a year and four days. It started October 16, 1934, and ended October 20, 1935(Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). Communists paid for peasants’ goods and did not damage crops. This is what attracted many young Chinese to join the Communists (Clayton 653). The Nationalist leader in China, Chiang Kai-Shek, surrounded communist base areas in an attempt to annihilate them. These were called military encirclement campaigns. The Communists were surrounded with no way out(Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica).
They hit the Nationalists at their weakest point in their military line and headed westward (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). They marched mostly during the night, and thousands of torches could be seen moving over hills and mountains (History.comStaff). The Communists lost more than half of their army. They came upon Zunyi where they then headed toward northwestern China, near the Soviet border and close to a Japanese territory (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). During the Long March, communist forces crossed 24 rivers and …show more content…
Under Chiang Kai-Shek’s command, the Nationalists bombarded the communists with air strikes. Some lives were lost during the airstrikes and daily attacks, but most of them were lost because of disease and starvation. Also, some Communists left the march and became peasants in towns along the march because they thought it was better than walking for hundreds of miles and starving (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). The injured and ill were left behind to die (Youtube Documentary). Mao Zedong’s two children and his younger brother were among the missing. At the start of the Long March, Mao Zedong had about 86,000 troops and about 30 women, in the end there was only about 8,000 survivors when the Long March
Have you ever heard of the Long March? Don’t worry, not many people have since researchers do not know the full details. The Long March lasted a year and four days. It started October 16, 1934, and ended October 20, 1935(Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). Communists paid for peasants’ goods and did not damage crops. This is what attracted many young Chinese to join the Communists (Clayton 653). The Nationalist leader in China, Chiang Kai-Shek, surrounded communist base areas in an attempt to annihilate them. These were called military encirclement campaigns. The Communists were surrounded with no way out(Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica).
They hit the Nationalists at their weakest point in their military line and headed westward (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). They marched mostly during the night, and thousands of torches could be seen moving over hills and mountains (History.comStaff). The Communists lost more than half of their army. They came upon Zunyi where they then headed toward northwestern China, near the Soviet border and close to a Japanese territory (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). During the Long March, communist forces crossed 24 rivers and …show more content…
Under Chiang Kai-Shek’s command, the Nationalists bombarded the communists with air strikes. Some lives were lost during the airstrikes and daily attacks, but most of them were lost because of disease and starvation. Also, some Communists left the march and became peasants in towns along the march because they thought it was better than walking for hundreds of miles and starving (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). The injured and ill were left behind to die (Youtube Documentary). Mao Zedong’s two children and his younger brother were among the missing. At the start of the Long March, Mao Zedong had about 86,000 troops and about 30 women, in the end there was only about 8,000 survivors when the Long March