In 1949 the nationalists under chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taiwan from the Chinese mainland. Along with them came more than 1.5 million refugees fleeing communist rule. Fearing a communist invasion, the nationalists kept a large army in the hope of someday retaking the mainland. They also blocked other political groups from sharing in the government.
the Chinese government is like a company
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China (Manchuria), Phillipines, Burma
Government Started the Five Year Plan and the Great Leap Forward, and a famine kills 30 million people, & formation of the Red Guards. Hundreds of thousands of people are killed.
In the 1930s there were about 131,000,000 people living in the United States. In the 1940s this number increased to about 134,000,000.
Well, because previously, China is named the Republic of China. To more closely associate themselves with the peasantry and the people, the Chinese leadership after pushing the KuominTang to Taiwan, named it the People's Republic of China to show that they are supported and run by the people. The term "People's Republic" was commonly used by communist leaders during the 1940s and 1950s; e.g. the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, the People's Republic of the Congo, etc.
the Chinese government is like a company
Chinese people had to flee areas the Japanese were invading because the Japanese would kill a Chinese for the sake of eliminating one more Chinese person.
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China (Manchuria), Phillipines, Burma
The prophets often had to flee for their lives as the people would not listen to them, and wanted to kill them.
Well, first of all the Nationalist did not lose the Civil War to "China", but the Communists. They only lost control of the country of China. After they lost they fled to the island of Taiwan in Southern China.
1940s
Government Started the Five Year Plan and the Great Leap Forward, and a famine kills 30 million people, & formation of the Red Guards. Hundreds of thousands of people are killed.
In the 1930s there were about 131,000,000 people living in the United States. In the 1940s this number increased to about 134,000,000.
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