Chiang Kai-shek

was beneficial for the GMD government since its government took more time to rest by preventing an invasion from Chinese Communist government. Therefore, Chiang Kai-Shek, as Wang and Chen said above, was prepared to support the UN forces, including 33,000 troops and 20 air transports. It probably caused the cooperation between the US and Chiang, which may lead Mao meet his goal harder. During the Korean War, CCP leaders even bought ammunition because “Chiang’s bandits intended to bomb all big…

In this essay I will discuss and analyse the title, was there a ‘lost chance’ for Sino-American accommodation in 1949. To conduct this analysis, I will look at several different significant factors that may have potentially altered any decisions made regarding Sino-American accommodation in 1949. Firstly I will examine the divergences between political ideologies in relation to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Western societies (primarily the United States). Secondly, I will investigate…

One of the key methods that a country could be forgiven for their mistakes is the ability to own up to what they have done. For example, the United States has admitted to and apologized for its role with Slavery, Japanese Internment, as well the treatment of Native American’s and their land. They played a role in the Triangular Trade where we brought workers here from Africa in order to strengthen our economy. They imprisoned Japanese Civilians in fear of the enemy attacking the homeland. They…

Japan remains the prime aggressor before World War II in the Pacific. As Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomingdang Nationalist Party and Mao’s Communist army failed to unify to fight the common enemy, the Japanese took advantage of their national weakness. Starting with the expansion into East Asia in 1931, Japan intended to milk all surrounding…

1949, communist leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China, naming himself as head of the state. The declaration ended over six years of bloody civil warfare against the Guomindang (GMD, Chinese Nationalist Party) led by the Chiang Kai-Shek, whose eventual unpopularity and corruption drove them to flee China altogether. Chairman Mao’s popular revolutionary vision for the People’s Republic Of China aimed to favor the peasantry, whereas the redistribution of land from rich,…

The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China are two paramount examples of Communism in history. Communism is the political thought that focuses on the emancipation of the proletarian class. The communist ideas officially started with Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles when the two political thinkers released The Communist Manifesto.1 In this writing, the two outlined the idea of Communism, which was the complete equality between the people, it also illustrated the trials and tribulations of…

Chiang Kai-shek shortage is illustrated by the fact that in 1941 there were only 800 artillery pieces in the entire Chinese Army. (“Chinese Nationalist Army”) Rape of Nanking: The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians…

As World War II comes to an end, so did one of the alliances held during it between the world’s new super powers, The United States and the Soviet Union. This marks the renewal of the great Red Scare as well as the start of the fight against the spread of communism, and at this time the United States was led by President Harry S. Truman. He would adopt his policy of Containment against the Soviet Union to try and just contain the communist threat to the USSR instead of making a war trying to…

On December 26, 1893, the architect of China’s Communist revolution and the founding member of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), Chairman Mao Zedong(毛泽东) was born. Although many of his socialist reforms resulted in failure and caused much devastation for the people of China, his legacy as a nationalist leader and the creator of an independent China still inspires post-Mao generations. Born from a peasant family, Chairman Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him…

Even though Mao Zedong’s communist party (the CCP) had far less men than his opponents; rejected aid from the Soviet Union at the same time as his opponents received it in massive quantities from the West, he was able to take control of the country in 1949 and establish what is now a regime on the verge of superpower status. Whether this triumph is a testimony to the genius of communist methods, or whether it was rather the result of wider social, economic, political and military conditions, can…