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Mao Zedong
The rise of Communismin China is largely due to a man named Mao Zedong. He was poorly educated but at the same time he was intelligent. He left home a became a member of the Nationalist Army when the revoultion began. -
China was divided ...
China was a divided, backward country ruled by various local warlords and burdened by unequal treaties which gave foreign powers special economic and territorial priveleges in China. -
CCP's
The CCP’s early leaders received funding and guidance from Soviet advisors and many went to the Soviet Union for education and training. -
China
Ideas started to spread widely in China after the 1919 May Fourth Movement. -
1st Congress
There were informal groups in China in 1920, and also overseas, but the official beginning was the 1st Congress held in Shanghai and attended by 53 men in July. -
Communist Party
The Communist Party of China is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. The current party leaderis Xi Jinping. The party was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai. -
Nationalist party
In August 1922 Sneevliet called a surprise special plenum of the central committee and proposed that party members join the Kuomintang KMTor Chinese Nationalist Party on the grounds that it was easier to transform the Nationalist Party from the inside than to duplicate its success. -
United..
the CCP joined the larger and more powerful revolutionary party, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), to form the First United Front 1922-27. -
Invaded
Following Japan’s invasion of China, the CCP formed a Second United Front with the ruling KMT to fight the Japanese. -
Maoist revolutionary
The CCP changed from an orthodox Soviet-style party based in the cities and led by intellectuals and urban workers to a rural-based Maoist revolutionary party composed primarily of peasants and soldiers. -
Red army
Red Army units waged guerilla war against Japanese forces in the countryside, and the CCP took advantage of the central government’s preoccupation with fighting Japan to expand the CCP’s power and influence. -
Civil war
Civil war resumed in 1946 between the CCP and KMT. In 1949, the CCP’s Red Army defeated the military forces of the central government in Nanjing, and the KMT-led ROC government fled to Taiwan.
