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How did the American public react to that support outcome and why during the civil war in china?
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as a result of the civil war in china, the communist party took over. the american public, which was currently going through its anti-communist phase (post WWII, cold war, etc), probably felt frightened that this victory meant that communism was spreading.
they might have felt slightly better when the Korean War ended in a stalemate and communists did not take full control. however, because of american troop involvment, they might also have been angry/sad for their army's losses. :D
Chiang Kai-Shek was very popular in America during the 1930s and 40s. This was partly due to support in the newsmedia (Henry Luce of Time Inc. had been born to missionaries in China) and partly because Generalissimo and Madame Chiang seemed to be very smart, amiable, cultured people. They seemed heroic, leading a nation that was being attacked on one side by the Japanese and on the other by the Soviet-backed Chinese Communists.
After 1941 the US State Department and War Department forced Chiang into an alliance with Mao Tse-Tung (of the Communists) in order to beat the Japanese. This led to a softening of American opposition to the Chinese Reds. At the end of the war, much of our State Department and some of the newsmedia (not Time and Life, of course!) held a favorable attitude towards Mao. His Communist guerrillas were sometimes described as "not really Communists but agrarian reformers."
It is true that there were many Communists and left-leaning officials in the State Department, and they encouraged the Truman Administration to withhold aid from Chiang and permit a Communist takeover. However it is also true that the Chiang had a serious PR problem in America. Chiang's government was notoriously corrupt. The "sweetheart" stories we used to see in newsreels and newspapers of the 1930s just weren't there in 1945-48. Finally, America was tired of war, tired of the endless Far East conflicts, and sometimes quite ready to see the whole region go to the devil. Which it did...at least until the Korean conflict broke out in 1950.
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