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The document summarizes the key reasons why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) defeated the Kuomintang (KMT) party in the Chinese Civil War from 1945-1949. When World War 2 ended in 1945, the CCP already controlled much of rural China while the KMT was confined to Sichuan province. Despite initial US support for Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT, by adopting guerrilla warfare tactics and gradually shifting to conventional battles, the CCP's military forces (PLA) were able to seize the initiative, capture key cities and territories, and ultimately force the KMT to retreat to Taiwan by 1949, allowing Mao Zedong to establish control of mainland China.
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Potsdam Conference
July 16 – August 2, 1945
• Leaders agreed that
Germany must be
defeated and de - Nazified
• Leaders disagreed over
post – war Germany and
Eastern Europe
• Britain and United States
wanted free elections
• Stalin feared anti – Soviet
governments in Eastern
Europe
Expansion of Communism
• Russia in 1917 due to revolution
• Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland and Romania following World War II
in 1945
• North Korea following World War II in 1945
• China in 1949 following World War II and civil war
• Cuba in 1959 following a revolution
• Vietnam in 1975 following the Vietnam War
Prelude to Russian Revolution
• By 1900, withdrawal of European investments in
Russia weakened industrial and economic
development
• Defeat in the Russo – Japanese War in 1905
devastated the Russian economy
• Worker strikes, peasant uprisings and military
mutinies spread across Russia in 1905
• Struggling industrial class resented the lack of
government action against unions and strikes
Bloody Sunday
• On January 22, 1905, in
St. Petersburg, around
3,000 workers marched
on the Winter Palace
• Imperial guards fired
upon and kill nearly 200
people
• Tsar Nicholas II was
blamed for the incident
• Initiated widespread
strikes and protest
Russia to World War I
• By 1907, political unrest led to the rise of new
political groups, including the Bolsheviks
• Widespread worker strikes stagnated industrial and
economic growth
• Unprepared for the outbreak of World War I
• Russian military was poorly led, armed, supplied
and trained
• By 1916, failures on the battlefield led to low
morale in the military and the populace
The Russian Revolution
• On February 23, 1917,
protest over food
rationing erupted in St.
Petersburg
• On March 15, 1917, Tsar
Nicholas II was forced to
abdicate and a
provisional government is
installed
• In July 1917, Bolsheviks
under Lenin rose in revolt
and gained power by
October
Vladimir Lenin
• Born on April 22, 1870,
in south central Russia
• Trained as a lawyer
• Execution of his brother
in 1887 made him anti-
tsarists
• Became involved with a
Marxist group in St.
Petersburg in 1893
Vladimir Lenin
• Arrested in 1894 for illegal political activities
• Exiled for three years to Siberia in 1897
• Lived abroad in Munich and London after exile
• Continued to print Marxist publications
• Fled to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I
• Returned to Russia after the February Revolution to
take control of the Bolsheviks
Lenin and Russia
• Established the Russian
Communist Party in
March 1918
• Established the Politburo
as the governing body of
the party
• Made reforms to gain
worker and military
support
• Ended involvement in
World War
Reforms of Lenin
• In October 1917, issued Decree on Workers Rights,
establishing an 8 hour work day
• Issued Decree on Popular Education
• On November 8, issued Decree on ...
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- 14. 3. The Final Stages, Dec 1948-Oct 1949 • After a rest, in April 1949, the PLA attacked key cities on the Yangtzi River, capturing Nanjing on 23rd April and Shanghai in late May. • Wuhan was captured in May and the way to the south was now open. The army then divided: • Xi’an & Lanzhou captured in August. • Guangzhou captured in October. • Chongqing captured in November.
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