Chiang Kai-shek

power; bringing with him a new regime of different values and goals. In an attempt to gain a following, Mao Zedong organized the Long March. From 1934-36, Mao Zedong led his communist followers on a journey as Chiang Kai-Shek, the founder of the National Party, and his army pursued them. Chiang ultimately was unable to find and defeat his enemy. He eventually had to divert his attention to the Japanese who were invading China. Mao came away from the March as a hero for the people and…

Justification of the U.S. Method of Communism Containment The methods used by the United States method to stop communism were unjustified. The U.S. wanted to stop the spread of communism, so they supported countries trying to free themselves from Soviet power. They did not help every country that were in need aid. For instance, the United States used broadcast propaganda programs to encourage capitalist democracy, but when the Hungarian protested against the Soviet Union; the U.S.failed to help…

to make money, Fugui was abruptly captured by the nationalist (Kuomingtang) army, and was forced to fight against the liberation army in the Civil War. The Chinese Civil War broke out as a fight between the communist and the Kuomingtang army. Chiang Kai Shek, the ruler of China at the time of the Civil War did not please the people as…

Young, the correspondent for international news services in Tokyo published the article “Japs Charge Chiang drowned 300,000 to save his army” on The Kane Republican, one of two daily newspapers of Pennsylvania. In the article, James quoted the statement of Japan Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki and Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, which denunciated the…

Mao Zedong had trouble gaining power and rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the early nineteen thirties. With Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist army closing in on the Communist forces, the Chinese Communist Party was in need of a new leader. The Long March was the event that made Mao Zedong the clear leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th,…

Mao tse-tung brought the communist revolution to China and gained political though the barrel of a gun. The Chinese system he overthrew nearly 50 years ago was backwards and corrupt. Few would argue the fact that he dragged China into the 20th century. But at a cost in human lives that is staggering. Suspected enemies of the party were murdered by the millions, farming collectives and the Great Leap Forwards of industrialization that failed miserably and left millions more died from starvation.…

Massacre In a matter of 6 weeks, two hundred to three hundred thousand people in Nanjing, China were killed. This would later be known as the Nanking Massacre. Before Japan’s Central China Army entered Nanking on December 13, 1937, leader of China, Kai-Shek removed all official Chinese troops from the capital. He left the untrained auxiliary troops to defend the city at all costs, but sadly a significant amount of soldiers fled before the Japanese entered the city. When the Japanese arrived,…

The Qing dynasty began in 1644 when the Manchu people took over China and began their reign. It was not the greatest dynasty, nor the longest, but during its regime the people of China were changed forever, and it would be the last of the dynastic empires to rule. The people of China were exposed to the Western world through trade and conflicts like the Opium Wars. The influences that resulted from these exposures, as well as aspects of traditional Chinese Culture led to the modern Chinese…

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…

Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of the World War II (1939–45). On 26 July 1945, Cumulated States President Harry S. Truman, Amalgamated Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Regime Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Imperium of Japan as concurred upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum verbally expressed if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter…