birth of a new China

1. Two Chinas

2. 9,596,960 km 2 (UAE = 77700 km 2 = 124 X uae )

4. Two political rivals emerged to fight a civil war Yuang Shih-k'ai Manchu Warlord Sun Yat-sen KUOMINTANG = NATIONAL PEOPLES PARTY

10. Chiang Kai-shek employed the Chinese army against the Communists and succeeded in over running the Kiangse - Hunan Soviet in 1931. Mao Zedong began a guerrilla war against the Kuomintang forces

12. The Long March OCT 1934 – October 1935 Mao’s escape

14. They also took with them 33,000 guns and nearly 2 million ammunition cartridges.

15. Mao adopted new tactics using twisting movement patterns that made predicting its direction very difficult.

24. The Japanese invasion of China in 1931 forced the CCP and the KMT to suspend the civil war