Origins of the Civil War, 1936-1946 (Edexcel A-Level History): Flashcards

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Conditions of China in 1936
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Year full-scale Chinese Civil War erupted

1946

Leader of nationalist government/KMT

Chiang Kai-shek

Full name of KMT

Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party

Leader of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Mao Tse-Tung

Where CCP settled in Dec 1936

Yan'An in Shaanxi

Period CCP remained in Yan'An

1937 until 1945

War during CCP's Yan'An period (1937-45)

Sino-Japanese War

Effect of Yan'An poverty on peasants

Increased radicalisation of peasants

What Mao developed while in Yan'An

Revolutionary ideology (in his writings)

Forms Mao's ideology took once in power

Mass line and people's dictatorship

Military force that gained peasant support

Red Army

Why peasants supported Red Army

Dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's administration

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