They started fighting again.
The Nationalists & Communists tried to unite against Japan, but they kept fighting each other.
The Nationalists & Communists tried to unite against Japan, but they kept fighting each other.
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The Pussilists and Analists NEW RESPONDENT Against Japan.
The main obstacles the Italian nationalists faced were the communist opposition. While Mussolini tried to unite the country under the nationalist flag, the communists rallied the masses to oppose the new Dictatorship. The communists believed that Mussolini's alliance with Hitler and Japan would crush Italian sovereignty and freedom.
China was involved since 1937 as a result of the Japanese incursion into Manchuria. China was also involved in a Civil war at the time and since the Nationalists and the Communists rarely cooperated, Japanese victory was magnified.
During WW II the Communists and the Nationalists focused on defeating the Japanese invaders, but as soon as WW II was over, they engaged each other in the struggle to determine who would rule China.
The two main groups were the Chinese communists, led by Mao Tse Dung, and the Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai Shek. The nationalists were the group recognized by the west as the "legitimate" government of China, and the group which had been allied against Japan and Germany during WWII. They were the successors to the Kuomintang nationalist movement from earlier in the century. But the nationalists never really controlled all of China and in truth Chiang was ony the largest and most successful of a number of different "warlords". There is a "dynastic cycle" in the long history of China, and whenever the central government grows weak its authority ceases to reach all far flung corners of the land, and warlords spring up to challenge for control of those areas. Eventually one of these warlords becomes powerful enough to displace the old dynasty, and establish a new dynasty. This is essentially what happened in 1949 when the communists won the civil war, and became the strongest government since the decline of the last Imperial dynasty forty years earlier.
No, not really. Japan wanted to take advantage of the turmoil & disunity in China to conquer the country. The Chinese factions involved were the Nationalists trying to defeat the warlords & unite the nation, the Communists trying to overthrow the Nationalist government, and the individual warlords that resisted giving up their control over the local population.
Yes, Japan was an important part of Chinese history. In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, which was considered to be a part of China. Manchuria was rich in natural resources, and the Japanese thought that it would be an important tactical move for their vision of expansion. The Japanese controlled Manchuria throughout the 1930s. The Chinese people hated the Japanese control. At this time there was also conflict between the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party in China. However, the two countries created a united front against the Japanese, their common enemy. The communists were more successful against the Japanese because Mao Zedong (the Communist Leader) believed in guerrilla warfare tactics. After the U. S. dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, the Japanese surrender. Both the Nationalists and the Communists wanted to accept their surrender in Manchuria, and take control of the region of China. The Communists quickly boarded trains headed toward Manchuria. However the Nationalists were airlifted their first by the United States. Despite this set back, the Communists eventually won the civil war that broke out in China.
The main causes of the Chinese Civil War were the ideological differences between the Communist Party of China and the Nationalist Party, as well as the power struggle between their respective leaders, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese Communist Party aimed to establish a socialist state, while the Nationalists sought to maintain a capitalist system. The failure to share power and resolve these differences led to the outbreak of the civil war.
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