KMT power struggle

Question 1

when was CCP founded

Answer 1

1921

Question 2

first united front was ___, what was its purpose

Answer 2

alliance between nationalists and communists

Purpose
-unification - getting rid of warlords

Question 3

shanghai massacre

Answer 3

= killinh a lot of communists by nationalists, communists went underground

Question 4

KMT =

Answer 4

nationalist party

Question 5

who is this

Answer 5

mao zedong

Question 6

who is this

Answer 6

zhou enlai

Question 7

who is this

Answer 7

chiang kai shek

Question 8

who is this

Answer 8

madame chiang

Question 9

CCP =

Answer 9

chinese communist party

Question 10

development of chinese communism

Answer 10

CCP going underground in rural china.

-KMT extermination campaigns

-long march

-yenan as communist head quarters

Question 11

why did CCP go undergournd

Answer 11

because 5,000 communists were sluaghtered by nationalosts

Question 12

how long did long march take

Answer 12

one year

Question 13

how many extermination campaigns were there against communists

Answer 13

5, last one was worse but communists had good avoidance strategies.

Question 14

what was yenan like

Answer 14

poor area, the people there lived in caves. no one wanted to go there to catch communists.

Question 15

what threats were China facing around1930s

Answer 15

communists threat and japan was also a foreign aggressor as well

Question 16

what was the manchurian incdent

Answer 16

staged by japanese military

japanese miliatry destroyed a section of the railroad they put money into and blamed chinese (staged) so they have excuse to take over entire manchuria.

Question 17

why were japanese in manchuria in the first place

Answer 17

because of sino-japanese war and russo-japanese war

Question 18

did japan end up taking over manchuria

Answer 18

yes and it became their puppet state

Question 19

jiang kai shek’s policies

Answer 19

they were peculiar:

let japanese have manchuria so e could dedicate energy and resources to fight communists.

Question 20

what was most fatal in jiang kai sheks eyes

Answer 20

communism

Question 21

what was jiang kai sheks view of politics

Answer 21

“communists are a diease of the heart, Japanese are a disease of skin”

Question 22

what was the xian incident

Answer 22

young marshall kidnaped jiang kai skek (general)

-force shek to agree to work with communists for 2nd united front (best interest of country) shek agree d so he would not be killed.

Question 23

how did young marshall feel about the xian incident

Answer 23

young marshall felt bad so he flew back with shek to Nanjing and placed under house arrest until shek died

Question 24

second united front formed because

Answer 24

shek was arm twisted into it to preserve his life

Question 25

who was mao's right hand man

Answer 25

zhou enlai

Question 26

who is this

Answer 26

young marshall

Question 27

young marshalls backstory

Answer 27

his hometwon is manchuria. his dad was killed by Jap, so when asked to fight communists he saif no because he felt his job was to fight japanese

Question 28

what do communists say about their enemy

Answer 28

that them and the nationalists have a common enemy being the japaese

Question 29

what was the beginning of world war II in asia

Answer 29

the marco polo bridge incidentwh

Question 30

what was the marco polo bridge incident (1937)

Answer 30

shots were fired near the brdige when japanese olider was "lost" in city, but chinese did not let the japanese soliders in

Question 31

japans attack on shanghai (1937)

Answer 31

before US joined war they say if US did not join Japan would have tried to take more

Question 32

the rape of nanking (1937-1938)

Answer 32

over the course of six weeks 30,000 women were raped and 300,000 people were killed -known as asian holocaust

Question 33

what two cities are the chinese moral lifelines

Answer 33

shanghai and beijing

Question 34

who was the forgotten ally during WWII

Answer 34

china -china engaged a lot of Japanese troops and suffered 14million losses (including those in rape of nanking)

Question 35

initial american neutrality in war

Answer 35

people focused on american matters 1929 = great depression which is even more reason to not invove themselves

Question 36

what did american companies sell to japanese in neutrality

Answer 36

oil, iron, steel, rubber

Question 37

US moral embargo against Japan

Answer 37

because of rape of nanking -no penalty (no teeth to it) tiny step forward from neutrality but had little impact

Question 38

US laon to china of $25mill

Answer 38

china needed economic aid, but it was against neutrality. money was conditioned: in process china had to use it to buy american goods/materials

Question 39

Japans greater east asia co-prosperity sphere in asia

Answer 39

japanese did not stop in shanghai and beijing -japanese waned to conquest all islad areas in asia IMPORTANT: we will collectively be prosperous (think japaese culture of shinto and them being best)

Question 40

US economic sanctions against Japan

Answer 40

BEFORE PEARL HARBOR -us could not let japan take over phillipines because it is US terriroty so they imposed economic danctions against Japan (no trade items)

Question 41

what did the US economic sanctions against Japan encourage japan to do

Answer 41

-encouraged Japan to conquer indonesia because it had the resources Japan could not get from US anymore

Question 42

who were gernal claire chennault and the flying tigers

Answer 42

americans who flew supplies over hump to help chinese (from burma to China) burma was only place not taken by japanese

Question 43

did chinese government pay general claire chennault

Answer 43

yes

Question 44

were the flying tigers an official mission

Answer 44

no, china had a weak air force so they got pilots together because they were tired of US action